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Australia · twice Australian girls' champion, 1932 and 1933 · women's quarter-finalist 1933
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Australian girls' singles titles, 1932 and 1933
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Seeding in the 1933 women's singles
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Australian women's singles, 1933
Nancy Lewis won the girls' singles at the Australian Championships in two successive years, on grass at Memorial Drive in Adelaide in February 1932 and at Kooyong in Melbourne in January 1933. She followed Emily Hood, the 1930 champion, and Joan Hartigan, the 1931 champion, as holder of the title, and handed it on to May Blick in 1934. In 1933 she also played the women's singles, where she was seeded eighth and reached the quarter-finals before losing to Emily Hood Westacott. She returned in 1934, won her first-round match against Vera Selwyn and again met Westacott, who beat her in the second round.
| Major singles titles | 2: Australian (1932, 1933) |
|---|---|
| Championship venues | 1932: Memorial Drive, Adelaide. 1933: Kooyong, Melbourne |
| Australian women's singles | 1933: seeded eighth; beat Dorothy Bellamy 6-2, 4-6, 6-0, lost in the quarter-finals to Emily Hood Westacott 6-3, 6-4. 1934: beat Vera Selwyn, lost in the second round to Westacott |
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Adelaide 1932
The 1932 Australian Championships were played on the grass at Memorial Drive in Adelaide from 6 to 13 February. Lewis won the girls' singles there, succeeding Joan Hartigan, and kept the title the following January when the championships moved to Kooyong in Melbourne.
Source: WikipediaKooyong 1933
At the same championships in which she retained the girls' title, Lewis was seeded eighth in the women's singles. She beat Dorothy Bellamy 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 and reached the quarter-finals, where Emily Hood Westacott, herself the girls' champion of 1930, beat her 6-3, 6-4.
Source: WikipediaKooyong 1933
The girls' honour roll reads like a queue for the women's event: Emily Hood in 1930, Joan Hartigan in 1931, then Lewis in 1932 and 1933. In the 1933 women's singles, Hartigan won the title, Westacott reached the semi-finals and Lewis the quarter-finals.
Source: Australian OpenAustralian Championships 1934
A year on, Lewis returned to the women's singles at the Australian Championships, beat Vera Selwyn in the first round and drew Emily Hood Westacott, the third seed, in the second. For the second year running it was Westacott who ended her championship.
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