Background
She was born in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Cawley reached the singles final of two Grand Slam tournaments, losing the 1971 French Open and the December 1977 Australian Open to countrywoman Evonne Goolagong Cawley. Despite both players marrying men with the same surname, they are not related to each other. An operation on her elbow sidelined her for 10 months in 1973.
Cawley"s greatest success was in women"s doubles.
And she was twice the runner-up at the French Open (1971 and 1977). Runners-up (2)
A = did not participate in the tournament.
Achievements
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She was a four-time winner of the Australian Open (1972, 1976, 1977 (January), 1977 (December)). She won Wimbledon in 1977 partnering JoAnne Russell and was the runner-up there in 1974. In 1987 she was inducted into the Tasmanian Sporting Hall of Fame and in 2000 received the Australian Sports Meda Social Research = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
