Country (sports) Australia Wimbledon QF (1964) Handed Right-handed French Open QF (1963) Role Tennis player | Name Robyn Ebbern Plays Right-handed US Open QF (1964) Highest ranking 9 | |
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Born 2 July 1944 (age 79)
Brisbane, Australia ( 1944-07-02 ) | ||
Australian Open SF (1961, 1963, 1964) | ||
Robyn Ebbern (born 2 July 1944) is an Australian former tennis player who was active in the 1960s.
Biography
Born in Brisbane, Ebbern and Margaret Smith won the Australian Championships doubles in 1962 and 1963 and the U.S. Championships doubles in 1963. In the same year in the French Championships, they were defeated in the final by Renée Schuurman Haygarth and Ann Haydon-Jones. In January 1962 she reached the final of the Tasmanian Championships in which she was defeated by Margaret Smith. In July 1963 she won the singles title at the Swiss Championships, played in Gstaad, defeating Lesley Turner in the final in straight sets. In the doubles final she teamed up with Turner and won against Renée Schuurman and Norma Baylon. In November 1963 she partnered with Smith to win the South Australian doubles title against Turner and Jan Lehane.
In the 1965 Australian Championships mixed doubles, she and Owen Davidson shared the championship with Court and John Newcombe. The final was not played. In 1966, Ebbern and Bill Bowrey were defeated in the final by Judy Tegart Dalton and Tony Roche.
According to of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Ebbern was ranked World No. 9 at year-end in 1964.