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Australia · born Perth, 1950 · twice Australian girls' champion · Wimbledon girls' finalist 1968
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Australian girls' singles titles, 1968 and 1969
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Australian Open singles, 1971
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Federation Cup winner on grass in Perth
6-1
First set off Evonne Goolagong, Wimbledon 1971
Born in Perth in 1950, Hunt won both the Western Australian women's open and junior titles in 1964, at 14. In 1968 she won the Australian and French junior singles and reached the Wimbledon girls' final, and she kept the Australian girls' title in 1969. Between 1967 and 1979 she was never outside Australia's top six, among contemporaries Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong, Kerry Reid and Wendy Turnbull, and she was ranked No. 3 in the country in 1974. She reached the Australian Open semi-finals in 1971 and four US Open quarter-finals, played the 1976 finals of the Italian and Canadian Opens and won the Swiss Open in 1978. With Court and Goolagong she won the 1971 Federation Cup on home grass in Perth.
| Major singles titles | 2: Australian (1968, 1969) |
|---|---|
| Major singles finals lost | 1: Wimbledon (1968) |
| Major doubles titles | 1: Australian (1968) |
| Wimbledon girls' final | 1968: lost to Kristy Pigeon 6-4, 6-3 |
| Australian girls' doubles | 1968 with Vicki Lancaster |
| Australian Open | Semi-finalist 1971: beat the fifth seed Patti Hogan 6-3, 6-4 and Jan O'Neill 6-4, 6-4, lost to Margaret Court 6-0, 6-3. Doubles final 1971 with Jill Emmerson, lost to Court and Evonne Goolagong 6-0, 6-0 |
| Wimbledon | Fourth round 1971, losing to Evonne Goolagong 1-6, 6-2, 6-1, and 1973, losing to Billie Jean King 6-4, 5-7, 6-0; doubles quarter-finals 1970, 1972 and 1973 |
| Federation Cup on grass | Winner 1971 at Royal King's Park, Perth; partnered Margaret Court to beat Virginia Wade and Winnie Shaw 6-4, 6-4 in the final against Great Britain |
| Other grass titles | Christchurch doubles 1978 with Sharon Walsh, beating Katja Ebbinghaus and Sylvia Hanika 6-1, 7-5 |
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| 1972 | Women's doubles†Virginia Slims of Newport | with Margaret Court |
| Adelaide International (women) | ||
| 1978 | Women's doubles†| with Sharon Walsh |
| Christchurch | ||
| 1978 | Women's doubles†| with Sharon Walsh |
| New South Wales Championships | ||
| 1978 | Women's doubles†New South Wales Open | with Sharon Walsh |
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Perth 1964
At 14 Hunt entered the Western Australian championships and came away with a rare double: the women's open title and the junior title in the same year. Four years later she won the Australian girls' singles, the first of two in a row, and the French junior title.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 1968
Hunt arrived in London having already won the Australian girls' title and went on to take the French junior singles that year. At Wimbledon she reached the girls' final, where the American Kristy Pigeon beat her 6-4, 6-3. She retained her Australian title the following year.
Source: WikipediaPerth, December 1970
The 1971 Federation Cup was played on the grass of Royal King's Park in Perth from 26 to 29 December 1970. Hunt joined Margaret Court and Evonne Goolagong in the home side, and in the final against Great Britain she partnered Court to beat Virginia Wade and Winnie Shaw 6-4, 6-4. Australia did not lose a rubber.
Source: WikipediaAustralian Open 1971
Unseeded, Hunt beat the fifth seed Patti Hogan and reached the semi-finals, where Margaret Court beat her 6-0, 6-3. In the doubles she and Jill Emmerson reached the final and met Court again, this time with Evonne Goolagong. The champions did not drop a game: 6-0, 6-0.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 1971
In the fourth round Hunt met Evonne Goolagong, the third seed and her Federation Cup teammate from six months earlier, and won the first set 6-1. Goolagong took the next two 6-2, 6-1 and went on to beat Margaret Court in the final for her first Wimbledon title.
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