Evonne Goolagong Cawley

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Evonne Goolagong Cawley

Australian tennis player

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Ashleigh Barty
…the first Australian woman since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980 to claim the Wimbledon singles title.
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…the first Australian woman since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980 to claim the Wimbledon singles title.
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tennis
The open era
…several net-rushing rivals: the Australian Evonne Goolagong, who won her first Wimbledon in 1971 at age 19, Billie Jean King, and Navratilova, whom Evert played in 13 Grand Slam finals in one of the game’s greatest rivalries. Evert, probably more than anyone, popularized the two-handed backhand, and she made a…
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…several net-rushing rivals: the Australian Evonne Goolagong, who won her first Wimbledon in 1971 at age 19, Billie Jean King, and Navratilova, whom Evert played in 13 Grand Slam finals in one of the game’s greatest rivalries. Evert, probably more than anyone, popularized the two-handed backhand, and she made a…
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Australia
Strains of modern radicalism
…(boxer Lionel Rose, tennis player Evonne Goolagong Cawley). Later, Aboriginal persons became celebrated in the fields of public administration (Charles Perkins, Patricia O’Shane), art (Yirawala, Michael Jagamara Nelson, Emily Kame Kngwarreye), literature (Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Colin Johnson, Sally Morgan), and politics (Neville Thomas Bonner, senator, 1971–83, and
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…(boxer Lionel Rose, tennis player Evonne Goolagong Cawley). Later, Aboriginal persons became celebrated in the fields of public administration (Charles Perkins, Patricia O’Shane), art (Yirawala, Michael Jagamara Nelson, Emily Kame Kngwarreye), literature (Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Colin Johnson, Sally Morgan), and politics (Neville Thomas Bonner, senator, 1971–83, and
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