Nancye Wynne Bolton
Nancye Wynne Bolton (née Wynne) was an Australian tennis star born on 2 December 1916 in Melbourne. She died on 9 November 2001, also in Melbourne. A right-handed player, Bolton became one of the most successful figures in Australian tennis.
She won six Australian Championships singles titles, the third-most in the event’s history after Margaret Court and Serena Williams. Bolton also won 20 Australian Championships titles in total, second only to Court.
Internationally, she was among the world’s best players in the late 1930s and again in the late 1940s, reaching a career-high world ranking of No. 4 in 1947 and 1948. Some sources rank her as the second-best player in 1947 behind Louise Brough.
Bolton married George Bolton in 1940; he was an RAAF pilot who was killed in 1942 during a bombing raid on Germany.
She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2004.
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