| Linda Cassell | |
| Birth Date: | 24 April 1962 |
| Plays: | Right-handed |
| Australianopenresult: | 2R (1980) |
| Wimbledonresult: | Q3 (1981) |
| Usopenresult: | Q1 (1981) |
| Australianopendoublesresult: | QF (1980) |
Linda Cassell (born 24 April 1962) is an Australian former professional tennis player.[1]
Cassell was trained in Canberra at the Australian Institute of Sport but grew up in Brisbane, where she attended Lourdes Hill College.[2] She was a girls' doubles champion at the 1979 Australian Open (with Susan Leo).
In 1980 she had her best Australian Open performance, reaching the women's singles second round and doubles quarter-finals. The following year she won two singles qualifying matches at Wimbledon, before falling in the final round.
Cassell is now a Catholic nun, having joined the Sisters of the Good Samaritan in 2007.[3] She made her perpetual profession in St Scholastica' College chapel at Glebe Point, Sydney. Cassell attended Lourdes Hill College in Brisbane, a secondary school established in 1916 by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. She has worked as a counsellor at Bede Polding College, Windsor, in Sydney's outer western suburbs and served on the Board of Directors of Stella Maris College, Manly in Sydney.[4]