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Evonne Goolagong Cawley, AC, MBE is a Wiradjuri Aborigine. She has been Australian of the Year (1971) and Australian Sportsman of the Year. In 1972 Queen Elizabeth II appointed her as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) and in 1982 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) In 1988 she was inducted into the ...
Evonne Goolagong. Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley, AO, MBE (31 de julho de 1951, Griffith, New South Wales, Austrália) é uma ex-tenista número 1 mundial australiana. Ela foi uma das principais tenistas da década de 1970 e início da de 80, quando ganhou 14 torneios do Grand Slam: sete em simples (quatro Australian Open, dois Wimbledon e um Roland-Garros), seis em duplas femininas e um em ...
Evonne Goolagong-Cawley, AO, MBE (born 31 July 1951) is an Australian tennis player. She was one of the world's most successful players in the 1970s and early 1980s. She ranked No. 1 in the world in 1976.
Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley (ur. 31 lipca 1951 w Griffith) – australijska tenisistka, 7-krotna zwyciężczyni zawodów zaliczanych do Wielkiego Szlema. W 1988 uhonorowana miejscem w Międzynarodowej Tenisowej Galerii Sławy . 19 czerwca 1975 roku w Londynie Goolagong wyszła za mąż za byłego brytyjskiego juniorskiego tenisistę Rogera Cawley i od tego momentu używa dwóch nazwisk.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley was asked to join the Barellan Tennis Club as a seven-year-old after being identified as a prospective talent by the club’s president Bill Kurtzman. What followed was a trailblazing path from a young indigenous girl born in a period of disadvantage and discrimination for many people with Aboriginal heritage as she became one of Australia’s greatest female tennis ...
Evonne Fay Goolagong, gift Cawley, född 31 juli 1951 i Barellan, New South Wales, Australien, är en australisk tidigare tennisspelare. Evonne Goolagong tillhörde under tioårsperioden 1971–1981 världseliten inom damtennis och rankades 1976 som etta under en knapp månad.
role in tennis history. …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….
