Nell Hall Hopman

Eleanor " Nell " Mary Hall Hopman ( born March 19, 1909 in Sydney, † January 10, 1968 in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia) was an Australian tennis player from 1930 until the early 1960s. She was the first wife of Australian tennis legend Harry Hopman.

Career

Hopman won in 1930, 1936, 1937 and 1939 with her husband, four mixed- title at the Australian Tennis Championships (now the Australian Open ). They reached the mixed doubles both 1935 finals at Wimbledon.

Nell Hopman was also in Australia in 1939 and 1947 in the finals of the individual competition. 1954, fifteen years after their last triumph, she won with her doubles partner, the American Maureen Connolly, in women's doubles at the French Tennis Championships (now the French Open ).

The Australian took 58 singles competitions will participate in Grand Slam tournaments, and was 57 years old when she ended her active tennis career. From 1952 she worked for the United States Lawn Tennis Association and the Southern California Tennis Association.

Nell Hall Hopman died in early 1968 following an operation which she had to undergo because of a brain tumor.

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