| Country (sports) |  Australia |
|---|---|
| Born | (1962-04-24) 24 April 1962 (age 62) |
| Plays | Right-handed |
| Singles | |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (1980) |
| Wimbledon | Q3 (1981) |
| US Open | Q1 (1981) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| Australian Open | QF (1980) |
Linda Cassell (born 24 April 1962) is an Australian former professional tennis player.
Tennis career
Cassell was trained in Canberra at the Australian Institute of Sport but grew up in Brisbane, where she attended Lourdes Hill College. She was a girls' doubles champion at the 1979 Australian Open (with Susan Leo).
In 1980 she had her best Australian Open performance, reaching the women's singles second round and doubles quarter-finals. The following year she won two singles qualifying matches at Wimbledon, before falling in the final round.
Religious sisterhood
Cassell is now a Catholic nun, having joined the Sisters of the Good Samaritan in 2007. She made her perpetual profession in St Scholastica' College chapel at Glebe Point, Sydney. Cassell attended Lourdes Hill College in Brisbane, a secondary school established in 1916 by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. She has worked as a counsellor at Bede Polding College, Windsor, in Sydney's outer western suburbs and served on the Board of Directors of Stella Maris College, Manly in Sydney.
References
- "Cassell's hope abandoned". The Canberra Times. 1 June 1981. p. 15. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- ^ "Tennis champ joins Good Samaritans". The Catholic Leader. 28 April 2007.
- "Tennis: Outcry over tennis girls' diets claims outcry". The Independent. 2 January 1999. Archived from the original on 14 June 2022.
- "Stellabration 2011: Celebrating 80 years 1931-2011" (PDF).
External links
- Linda Cassell at the Women's Tennis Association
- Linda Cassell at the International Tennis Federation
- Linda Cassell at Wimbledon
- 1962 births
- Living people
- Australian female tennis players
- Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
- 21st-century Australian Roman Catholic nuns
- Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles
- Tennis players from Brisbane
- Australian Institute of Sport tennis players
- Sportswomen from Queensland
- 20th-century Australian sportswomen