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Country (sports)
  
United Kingdom

Wimbledon
  
3R (1976)

French Open
  
1R (1972)

French Open
  
QF (1972)

US Open
  
1R (1970, 1971, 1972)

Full name
  
Corinne Molesworth-Boyd

Born
  
18 June 1949 (age 67) Brixham, England (
1949-06-18
)

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Corinne Molesworth (born 18 June 1949) is a former tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active in the 1960s and 70s.

In 1967 she became the junior singles champion at the French Championships.

Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the quarterfinal of the singles event at the 1972 French Open. As a qualifier she defeated Nathalie Fuchs, Sonja Pachta, eighth-seeded Linda Tuero and Judy Tegart Dalton to reach the quarterfinal, which she lost in straight sets to first-seeded Evonne Goolagong. At the Wimbledon Championships she reached the third round in the singles event in 1976 in which she was defeated in two sets by second-seeded Evonne Goolagong-Cawley. Her three participations in the singles event of the US Open (1970, 1971, 1972) ended in the first round.

She competed in the 1972 Wightman Cup, a team tennis competition for women between the United States and Great Britain, losing her match against Patti Hogan in three sets. That year she shared the singles title of the Scottish Championships with Joyce Williams.

Partnering Naoko Satō she was runner-up in the doubles event of the 1976 Chichester Tennis Tournament.

Molesworth was coached by Arthur Roberts.

References

Corinne Molesworth Wikipedia


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