Louie Bickerton

Louie Bickerton
Full name	Louie Mildred Bickerton Cozens
Country (sports)	Australia
Born	11 August 1902; Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia
Died	6 June 1998 (aged 95)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	F (1929)
French Open	3R (1928)
Wimbledon	4R (1928)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	W (1927, 1929, 1931)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	W (1935)

Louie^[1] Mildred Bickerton Cozens (née Bickerton) (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.^[2]^[3]

Grand Slam finals

Singles (1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1929	Australian Championships	Grass	Daphne Akhurst	1–6, 7–5, 2–6

Doubles (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1927	Australian Championships	Grass	Meryl O'Hara Wood	Esna Boyd Sylvia Lance Harper	6–3, 6–3
Win	1929	Australian Championships	Grass	Daphne Akhurst	Sylvia Lance Harper Meryl O'Hara Wood	6–2, 3–6, 6–2
Win	1931	Australian Championships	Grass	Daphne Akhurst	Nell Lloyd Lorna Utz	6–0, 6–4
Loss	1935	Australian Championships	Grass	Nell Hopman	Evelyn Dearman Nancy Lyle	3–6, 4–6

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Key
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	DNQ	A	NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Tournament	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	Career SR
Australian Championships	2R	A	SF	SF	F	SF	QF	A	A	SF	QF	0 / 8
French Championships	A	A	A	3R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1
Wimbledon	A	A	A	4R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1
U.S. Championships	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0
SR	0 / 1	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 3	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 10

Notes

^ Her name is commonly misspelt as "Louise"
^ Jones, Cathy. "Louie Bickerton". Strathfield History. Archived from the original on 18 October 2009. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
^ "Cozens and Bickerton". NSW Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2008.