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Hazel Cheadle

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Hazel Cheadle
Country (sports) United Kingdom
Born(1922-11-08)8 November 1922
Died8 March 1999(1999-03-08) (aged 76)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Wimbledon4R (1953)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon3R (1959)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon3R (1957, 1960)

Hazel Cheadle (nee Austin; 8 November 1922 — 8 March 1999) was a British field hockey and tennis player.

Cheadle, raised in Hampshire, developed an interest in tennis while acting as a ball girl for her parents.[1] Her father was headmaster of Milford School.[2]

Based in Birmingham, Cheadle was a Warwickshire representative player and won the county singles title nine times in a row.[3] She made the singles fourth round of the 1953 Wimbledon Championships.[4]

During the 1960s she played international matches for the England national field hockey team.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Sportswoman to the last". New Milton Advertiser. 13 March 1999.
  2. ^ "Personalia". New Milton Advertiser. 5 March 1955.
  3. ^ a b "Birmingham's thanks to Hazel Cheadle". Birmingham Daily Post. 14 June 1973.
  4. ^ "Girls, don't you know how to fight?". Birmingham Daily Gazette. 8 July 1953.