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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. Her father was headmaster of Milford School.

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

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

References

  1. "Sportswoman to the last". New Milton Advertiser. 13 March 1999.
  2. "Personalia". New Milton Advertiser. 5 March 1955.
  3. ^ "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.
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