Louie Bickerton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Louie Bickerton

Australian tennis player

Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1902

Place of Birth: Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia

Date of Death: 06-Jun-1998

Profession: tennis player

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Louie Bickerton

  • Louie Mildred Bickerton Cozens (11 August 1902 – 6 June 1998) was a female tennis player from Australia.
  • She was born in Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia and won the women's doubles titles at the 1927, 1929, and 1931 Australian Championships.
  • She won the mixed doubles title at those championships in 1935 and was the runner-up in the 1929 singles and 1935 women's doubles at that tournament. Perhaps Bickerton's biggest singles victory outside of Australia was her first round defeat of 44-year-old and eight time U.S.
  • champion Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in the first round of Wimbledon in 1928.
  • The score was 6–3, 4–6, 6–4. Bickerton was friends with Daphne Akhurst Cozens.
  • In 1935 she married Daphne's widower, Royston Stuckey Cozens, to whom she remained married for 63 years until her death at the age of 95.

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