Goolagong+Cawley,+Evonne

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Committed because Evonn worked hard and practised Slammer because she was famous for the Grand Slam year where she became champion and well known || [] || She was a good athlete and showed an early aptitude for tennis, which members of her family and friends encouraged. She was given special dispensation because of her age to join the local tennis club at the age of seven. She attracted the interest of Mr Vic Edwards, the owner of the Victor A Edwards Tennis School (VAETS) at the age of eleven, when a tennis clinic was held in Barellan in 1961.
 * **Orientation: ** Establishes the name of the person, when and where they were born, their early family life and made them a famous person. ||  Evonne Goolagong Cawley is one of Australia's most successful Tennis players. Evonne was born in July 31st, 1951, Griffith, N.S.W. She grew up in a wheat town called Barellan. Her father Kenny was a shearer and her mother Linda worked at home looking after Evonne and her seven brothers and sisters. They were the only aboriginal family in the town. Their house was a tin shack with dirt floors, but Evonne says they were the happiest days of her life. They loved little games and swimming in the irrigation canal. Evonne won most of the games. The Goolagongs were the only aborigines at their local school. At the age of 11 she was given the chance to go to Sydney to train seriously to become a champion tennis player. She grabbed that opportunity and never looked back. Before she was 13, Evonne had won more than 80 singles and doubles age titles. When she was 14, she moved to Sydney and lived with her coach (Vick Edwards) and his family became her guardians. She went to school at Willoughby High where she enjoyed numerous sporting opportunities. In 1970 Evonne left to go on her first overseas tour to Britain. At 19, she met the man she would marry, Roger Cawley. When she came back to Australia she was elected to play for Australia in the 1970 Federation Cup. In 1971 she won the French Open in the same year she won Wimbledon she was now No.1 in the world. In 1972 she was awarded an MBE (Member of the British Empire title, she was also Australian of the Year. The money she earned meant she could help her family. She was now wealthy and famous, touring nine months of the year. Her nicknames were "super mum", "La Belle Evonne" and "Sunshine Super Girl". In 1974, her father was killed in a car accident - she didn't go home for the funeral. ||
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she moved to Sydney permanently in 1965, at the age of fourteen, to concentrate on her tennis career and lived with the Edwards family. Edwards coached her and later became her personal manager. || [] || [] || Evonne Cawley was the daughter of Kenny Goolagong She grew up in Barellan, country New South Wales, one of a family of eight children, and was educated at Barellan primary and central schools. She was a good athlete and showed an early aptitude for tennis, which members of her family and friends encouraged. She was given special dispensation because of her age to join the local tennis club at the age of seven. She attracted the interest of Mr Vic Edwards, the owner of the Victor A Edwards Tennis School (VAETS) at the age of eleven, when a tennis clinic was held in Barellan in 1961.
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she moved to Sydney permanently in 1965, at the age of fourteen, to concentrate on her tennis career and lived with the Edwards family. Edwards coached her and later became her personal manager. She attended Willoughby Girls High School and completed her School Certificate in 1968, then undertook secretarial studies at the Metropolitan Business College. She entered the New South Wales Championship at the age of fifteen and in January 1968 played in the Australian women's singles championship. At this point she was ranked as the top junior in New South Wales. || Sources used : 'Goolagong Cawley, Evonne (1951- )', in Commire, Anne (ed.), //Women in world history: a biographical encyclopedia//, vol. 6, Yorkin Publications, Waterford, CT, USA, 2000, pp. 379-84; 'Cawley, Evonne Fay; AO 1982, MBE 1972; Sports Ambassador to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Communities.', in Herd, Margaret (ed.), //Who's who in Australia 2002//, 38th edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2002, p. 390; 'EVONNE GOOLAGONG CAWLEY', in //Australians//, Behind the News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2002; Brasch, Nicolas, //Great Australian Women in Sport//, Heinemann, Port Melbourne (Vic.), 1997, 32 pp; Cawley, Evonne Goolagong and Jarrett, Phil, //Home! The Evonne Goolagong Story//, Simon and Schuster, East Roseville, NSW, 1993, 400 pp. ||
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> WITH 13 Grand Slam titles and an indelible place in Australia’s sporting history, Evonne Goolagong Cawley has a smorgasbord of available answers to the inevitable “proudest moment” question. The living legend’s choice, however, is “winning Wimbledon as a mother”, after the birth of daughter Kelly.

Cawley became the first indigenous Australian to win a Wimbledon singles championship and, in 1980, was the first mother to take a Wimbledon title in 66 years.

**Australian Open:** Singles-1974-77 Singles finalists-1971-73 Doubles-1971, 1974-76, 1977 Singles Finalists-1972 Doubles-1972 Singles Finalists-1972, 1975-76 Doubles-1974 Doubles Finalists-1971 Mixed Finalists-1972 Doubles Finalists-1979 [] || [] || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Well known persons working at the same time. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> In 1975 she married British tennis player Roger Cawley || [] ||
 * Grand Slam Record**
 * French Open:** Singles-1971
 * Wimbledon:** Singles-1971, 1980
 * U.S. Open:** Singles Finalists-1973-76
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 * Italian:** Singles-1973
 * Federation Cup:** 1971-76, 1982 ||
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 * NEWCOMBE, John|| Australia || 1968-70. Wimbledon title no.2 in 1970 || ||  ||   ||
 * NEWCOMBE, John|| Australia || 1971-72. Wimbledon crown retained || ||  ||   ||
 * NNEWCOMBE, John || KR[[displayhero.asp?HeroID=2240|ANTZCKE, Karen || Australia || 1970. Australian Open & French Open (Semi-Finalist) ||
 * KRANTZCKE, Karen || Australia || Australian Open 1977 (Semi-Finalist) ||
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