Margaret Hellyer | |
Birth Date: | 29 July 1937 |
Australianopenresult: | 2R (1955, 1956, 1957, 1958) |
Frenchopenresult: | 3R (1957) |
Wimbledonresult: | 4R (1960) |
Australianopendoublesresult: | SF (1957) |
Wimbledondoublesresult: | QF (1959, 1960) |
Wimbledonmixedresult: | SF (1957) |
Margaret Hellyer (born 29 July 1937) is an Australian former tennis player.[1]
Active in the 1950s and 1960s, Hellyer is a native of Sydney and had some of her best results on the grass courts of Wimbledon. She won the All England Plate in 1957 and was a mixed doubles semi-finalist that year with Roy Emerson. Her best singles run was a fourth round appearance in 1960 and she twice reached the women's doubles quarter-finals.
Hellyer had a relationship with Brazilian tennis player Carlos Fernandes and the pair were engaged.[2] She was married to Kenneth Burston, an Englishman from Shropshire, in a 1963 wedding in Sydney.[3]