Nora Somoza | |
Fullname: | Nora Bonifacino de Somoza |
Birth Date: | 8 August 1930 |
Australianopenresult: | 1R (1965) |
Frenchopenresult: | 3R (1961) |
Wimbledonresult: | 3R (1961) |
Usopenresult: | 1R (1959) |
Wimbledonmixedresult: | QF (1961) |
Nora Bonifacino de Somoza (8 August 1930 — 17 January 2013) was an Argentine tennis player.
Somoza, nicknamed "Norita", grew up in Coronel Suárez, Buenos Aires Province.[1]
An Argentine number one, Somoza was active on tour in the 1950s and 1960s. She was a three-time winner of the Río de la Plata tournament and represented her country at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago.[2] [3]
In 1961 she reached the singles third rounds of both the French Championships and Wimbledon. She also teamed up with Reino Nyyssönen at Wimbledon to make the mixed doubles quarter-finals.[4]
Somoza appeared for the Argentina Federation Cup team in a 1965 tie against New Zealand in Melbourne.[5]