Louie Bickerton

Louie Bickerton
Full name Louie Mildred Bickerton Cozens
Country (sports)  Australia
Born 11 August 1902
Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia
Died 6 June 1998(1998-06-06) (aged 95)
Singles
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open F (1929)
French Open 3R (1928)
Wimbledon 4R (1928)
Doubles
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open W (1927, 1929, 1931)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open W (1935)

Louie[1] Mildred Bickerton Cozens (11 August 1902 – 6 June 1998) was a female tennis player from Australia. She was born in Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia and won the women's doubles titles at the 1927, 1929, and 1931 Australian Championships. She won the mixed doubles title at those championships in 1935 and was the runner-up in the 1929 singles and 1935 women's doubles at that tournament.

Perhaps Bickerton's biggest singles victory outside of Australia was her first round defeat of 44-year-old and eight time U.S. champion Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in the first round of Wimbledon in 1928. The score was 6–3, 4–6, 6–4.

Bickerton was friends with Daphne Akhurst Cozens. In 1935 she married Daphne's widower, Royston Stuckey Cozens, to whom she remained married for 63 years until her death at the age of 95.[2][3]

Grand Slam finals

Singles (1 runner-up)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1929 Australian Championships Grass Australia Daphne Akhurst 1–6, 7–5, 2–6

Doubles (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1927 Australian Championships Grass Australia Meryl O'Hara Wood Australia Esna Boyd
Australia Sylvia Lance Harper
6–3, 6–3
Winner 1929 Australian Championships Grass Australia Daphne Akhurst Australia Sylvia Lance Harper
Australia Meryl O'Hara Wood
6–2, 3–6, 6–2
Winner 1931 Australian Championships Grass Australia Daphne Akhurst Australia Nell Lloyd
Australia Lorna Utz
6–0, 6–4
Runner-up 1935 Australian Championships Grass Australia Nell Hopman United Kingdom Evelyn Dearman
United Kingdom Nancy Lyle
3–6, 4–6

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# A NH
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (NH) not held.
Tournament 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 Career SR
Australian Championships 2R A SF SF F SF QF A A SF QF 0 / 8
French Championships A A A 3R A A A A A A A 0 / 1
Wimbledon A A A 4R A A A A A A A 0 / 1
U.S. Championships A A A A A A A A A A A 0 / 0
SR 0 / 1 0 / 0 0 / 1 0 / 3 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 10

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

Notes

  1. Her name is commonly misspelt as "Louise"
  2. Jones, Cathy. "Louie Bickerton". Strathfield History. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
  3. "Cozens and Bickerton". NSW Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. Retrieved 2008-12-10.

See also

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