- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE2708
Le Messurier, Kathleen
- Occupation Sportswoman, Tennis player
Summary
Kathleen Le Messurier played tennis for Methodist Ladies College, Semaphore and East Torrens Tennis Clubs, represented South Australia from 1919 and was the State’s best woman player for many years. She ranked in the top 10 women players in the Commonwealth and in 1930 played at Wimbledon. She was a runner up in the Australian Open, to Coral Buttsworth, in 1932.
Published resources
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Site Exhibition
- She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html
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Resource
- Trove: Le Messurier, Kathleen, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-715059