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Australia · Australian girls' champion 1954 and 1955 · Australian girls' doubles champion 1955
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Australian girls' singles titles, 1954 and 1955
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Australian girls' doubles title, 1955
6-3, 3-6, 6-4
Her first-round win at the 1955 Australian Championships
Elizabeth Orton, known as Betty, won the girls' singles at the Australian Championships in 1954, when they were played at White City in Sydney, and kept the title in 1955 at Memorial Drive in Adelaide. In 1955 she also won the girls' doubles with Pat Parmenter. She followed Jenny Staley as girls' champion and was succeeded by Lorraine Coghlan. Her senior record in the published draws is short: in March 1955 she reached the final at Warrnambool, losing to Norma Ellis 6-4, 6-1, and at the 1955 Australian Championships she won a round in the women's singles before losing to the fifth seed, Fay Muller. Little is published about her later career.
| Major singles titles | 2: Australian (1954, 1955) |
|---|---|
| Major doubles titles | 1: Australian (1955) |
| Junior doubles partner | Australian girls' doubles 1955 with Pat Parmenter |
| Australian women's singles | 1955: beat Rosemary Rosman 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, lost to Fay Muller 4-6, 5-7 in the second round |
| Other finals | Warrnambool 1955, lost to Norma Ellis 4-6, 1-6 |
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White City, Sydney, 1954
Orton took the Australian girls' singles title in 1954 at White City in Sydney, succeeding Jenny Staley, the 1953 champion. The girls' doubles that year went to Betty Holstein and Beth Jones; a year later Orton won that event too, with Pat Parmenter.
Source: WikipediaMemorial Drive, Adelaide, 1955
At the 1955 championships in Adelaide she kept the girls' singles title and added the doubles with Pat Parmenter. She also played in the women's singles, beating Rosemary Rosman 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in the first round before the fifth seed, Fay Muller, beat her 6-4, 7-5.
Source: WikipediaWarrnambool, March 1955
In March 1955, about six weeks after her second girls' title, she reached the singles final of the Warrnambool tournament in western Victoria, where Norma Ellis beat her 6-4, 6-1. It is one of the few senior finals of hers in the published records.
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