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2018 - AUSTRALIAN OPEN - AUSTRALIA December 23, 2017

Green and golden: Notable Australian former players

Ahead of the 106th Australian Open in Melbourne next month, wtatennis.com takes a look at the greatest names in Australian tennis history.

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Evonne Goolagong Cawley won seven Grand Slams between 1971 and 1980 - four Australian Opens, one Roland Garros and two Wimbledons - and became World No.1 in April 1976 (Getty)
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Judy Tegart Dalton, the 1968 Wimbledon runner-up, was also a member of the Original 9 - the nine pioneers whose defiance of the establishment in 1970 led to the formation of the WTA Tour (Getty)
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Lesley Turner Bowrey was a double Roland Garros champion in 1963 and 1965, reached a further four Grand Slam finals and captained the Australian Fed Cup team between 1994-2001 (Getty)
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Kerry Melville Reid won the Australian Open in 1977, reached a further two Grand Slam singles finals, lifted three Grand Slam doubles trophies and was a member of the Original 9
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Wendy Turnbull reached three Grand Slam singles finals between 1977-1980 - and in doubles was a four-time Slam champion, a WTA Finals winner and a bronze medallist at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games (Getty)
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In 1977, Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat (pictured with her daughter Miel) was the Australian Open singles runner-up and doubles champion, and reached a career high of No.4 in 1979 (Getty for WTA)
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Christine O'Neil (pictured with Serena Williams) was the 1978 Australian Open champion (Getty)
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Margaret Court is a winner of 24 Grand Slam singles titles - 11 in Melbourne, five at Roland Garros, three at Wimbledon and five at the US Open (Getty)
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Current Fed Cup captain Alicia Molik won two Grand Slam doubles titles (the 2005 Australian Open and 2007 Roland Garros), and in singles was a bronze medallist at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and reached a career high of No.8 (Getty)
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Rennae Stubbs was a four-time Grand Slam doubles champion and World No.1 between 2000-04, as well as a three-time mixed doubles winner (Getty)
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Liz Smylie was the Wimbledon doubles winner in 1985, a three-time mixed doubles champion and the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games bronze medallist in doubles (Getty)
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In 1992, Nicole Bradtke (pictured with Samantha Stosur) won the mixed doubles trophies at both the Australian Open and US Open; in singles, she was a Roland Garros semifinalist in 1988 (Getty)
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Jelena Dokic won six WTA Tour titles between 2001-11, was a Wimbledon semifinalist in 2000 and reached a career high of No.4 in 2002 (Getty)

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