Joan Hartigan
Full name | Joan Marcia Bathurst Hartigan |
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Country (sports) | Australia |
Born | Sydney,Australia | 6 June 1912
Died | 31 August 2000 Sydney, New South Wales | (aged 88)
Plays | Right-handed[1] |
Singles | |
Highest ranking | No. 8 (1934,A. Wallis Myers)[1] |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | W(1933,1934,1936) |
French Open | 3R (1934) |
Wimbledon | SF (1934,1935) |
Doubles | |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | F (1933, 1934, 1940) |
French Open | 2R (1934) |
Wimbledon | QF (1935) |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
Australian Open | W(1937) |
Wimbledon | QF (1935) |
Joan Marcia Bathurst(néeHartigan;6 June 1912 – 31 August 2000) was an Australian Championtennisplayer who was active from the early 1930s until the late 1940s.
Early life and education
[edit]Joan Marcia Hartigan was born in Sydney, the daughter of Thomas Joseph (Tom) Hartigan, a railways commissioner,[2]and Imelda Josephine, née Boylson, a schoolteacher; the couple wed on 26 March 1908 at St Thomas's Catholic Church,Lewisham, New South Wales.[3][4]Tom Hartigan was a clerk in the New South Wales Government Railways and eventually became Railways Commissioner.[3]Joan was educated at the all-girls'Loreto Kirribilli,in the lower north shore of Sydney.
Tennis career
[edit]Hartigan learnt to play tennis at theLoreto Convent.[5]She won the NSW junior singles and doubles title and the Australian girls' championship in 1931.[5]In late January 1932 she defeatedMargaret Molesworthin the singles final of the New Zealand Championships.[6]In March that year she won the singles title at theNew South Wales Championshipsafter a straight-sets victory in the final against Molesworth.[7]Hartigan won the singles title at theAustralian Championshipsin 1933, 1934 and 1936[a]and was a semifinalist atWimbledonin 1934 (losing to first-seededHelen Jacobs) and 1935 (losing to eventual championHelen Wills Moody). During her stay in Britain in 1934 she won the singles titles at theNorth of England Championshipsand theScottish Championships,both after a win in the final againstSusan Noel.[9]
Hartigan three times reached the women's doubles final at the Australian Championships, in 1933, 1934, and 1940. Bathurst teamed withEdgar Moonto win the mixed doubles title at the 1934 Australian Championships. According toA. Wallis MyersofThe Daily Telegraphand theDaily Mail,Bathurst was ranked in the world top 10 in 1934 and 1935, reaching a career high of world No. 8 in these rankings in 1934.[1]
She was known for her power game with a hard-hitting forehand drive as her main strength.[10]Hartigan hit her backhand with the same side of the racket as her forehand.[1]
Hartigan was posthumously inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame in January 2022 at a ceremony at theRod Laver Arena.[11][12]
Personal and family life
[edit]In January, 1943 she enlisted in the Australian Army; she served with theAustralian Army Medical Women's Serviceat a Camp Hospital in Sydney and was discharged on 1 September 1943.[4]In 1946, she announced her engagement to Hugh Moxon Bathurst of Melbourne who was then private secretary to SenatorJames Fraser,Chifley's Health minister.[13]They married at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney on Saturday, 12 April 1947, before flying to Adelaide then Perth to board theRMSOrion[14]at Fremantle for England where they planned to live for a few years while she resumed her tennis career at Wimbledon.[15][16]In 1950, they returned on the Strathmore after living in Surrey for three years and settled in Sydney.[17]Joan Bathurst died on 31 August 2000,[18]and her husband died 16 April 2001.[19]Their son,Thomas Frederick Bathurstbecame Chief Justice of New South Wales.
Grand Slam finals
[edit]Singles (3 titles)
[edit]Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Win | 1933 | Australian Championships | Grass | Coral Buttsworth | 6–4, 6–3 |
Win | 1934 | Australian Championships | Grass | Margaret Molesworth | 6–1, 6–4 |
Win | 1936 | Australian Championships | Grass | Nancye Wynne | 6–4, 6–4 |
Doubles (3 runner-ups)
[edit]Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 1933 | Australian Championships | Grass | Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn | Emily Hood Westacott Margaret Molesworth |
3–6, 3–6 |
Loss | 1934 | Australian Championships | Grass | Ula Valkenburg | Emily Hood Westacott Margaret Molesworth |
8–6, 4–6, 4–6 |
Loss | 1940 | Australian Championships | Grass | Edith Niemeyer | Thelma Coyne Long Nancye Wynne Bolton |
5–7, 2–6 |
Mixed doubles (1 win)
[edit]Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1934 | Australian Championships | Grass | Edgar Moon | Emily Hood Westacott Ray Dunlop |
6–3, 6–4 |
Grand Slam singles tournament timeline
[edit]W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
Tournament | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 – 1944 | 1945 | 19461 | 19471 | 1948 | 1949 | Career SR |
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Australian Championships | QF | A | W | W | A | W | QF | QF | SF | SF | NH | NH | QF | 2R | A | A | 3 / 10 |
French Championships | A | A | A | 3R | A | A | A | A | A | NH | R | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 1 |
Wimbledon | A | A | A | SF | SF | A | A | 2R | A | NH | NH | NH | A | 3R | A | 1R | 0 / 5 |
U.S. Championships | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 |
SR | 0 / 1 | 0 / 0 | 1 / 1 | 1 / 3 | 0 / 1 | 1 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 1 | 3 / 16 |
1In 1946 and 1947, the French Championships were held after Wimbledon.
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abcdCollins, Bud(2016).The Bud Collins History of Tennis(3rd ed.). New York: New Chapter Press.ISBN978-1-937559-38-0.
- ^"Hartigan, Thomas Joseph (Tom) (1877–1963)".adb.anu.edu.au.Australian Dictionary of Biography.
- ^abR. M. Audley,Hartigan, Thomas Joseph (1877–1963) profile,Australian Dictionary of Biography,National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, Retrieved 28 August 2011.
- ^abHartigan, Joan MarciaCommonwealth of Australia, WW2 Nominal Roll, 2002; Retrieved 10 July 2024.
- ^ab"Tennis".The Sydney Morning Herald.1 February 1934. p. 21 (Women's Supplement) – via National Library of Australia.
- ^"N. Zealand title".The Sun.30 January 1932. p. 6 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^"Mrs. Molesworth beaten".The Charleville Times.24 March 1932. p. 8 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^"Joan Hartigan for Wimbledon".Barrier Miner.New South Wales, Australia. 5 January 1935. p. 1 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^"Tennis in Britain".New Zealand Herald.23 July 1934 – viaPapers Past.
- ^"Joan Hartigan: a pioneering champion".Tennis Australia.4 January 2022.
- ^"Molesworth, Hartigan to be inducted into Australian Tennis Hall of Fame".Australian Open.25 January 2022.
- ^"Legends honoured at Australian Open 2022".Tennis Australia.25 January 2022.
Trailblazing women's champions Maude Margaret Molesworth and Joan Hartigan are warmly celebrated as they enter the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame.
- ^"Former Woman Tennis Champion Engaged".The Argus.Melbourne. 4 May 1946. p. 3.Retrieved28 August2011– via National Library of Australia.
- ^"Orion shipment imperilled".The West Australian.22 April 1947. p. 11 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^"Tennis star".The West Australian.17 April 1947. p. 14 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^"Joan Hartigan For Wimbledon".The Barrier Miner.26 March 1947. p. 5 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^"Social News And Gossip".The Sunday Herald.Sydney. 30 April 1950. p. 13.Retrieved28 August2011– via National Library of Australia.
- ^Death notices,The Sydney Morning Herald,2 September 2000,
- ^Death notices,The Sydney Morning Herald,18 April 2001.
External links
[edit]- Joan Hartiganat The Australian Women's Register
- Joan Hartiganat Mosman Hall of Sporting Fame
- Joan HartiganatTennis Australia
- Joan BathurstatWimbledon
- 1912 births
- 2000 deaths
- Australian Championships (tennis) champions
- Australian female tennis players
- Sportswomen from New South Wales
- Grand Slam (tennis) champions in women's singles
- Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
- Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles
- Tennis players from Sydney
- Australian Championships (tennis) junior champions
- 20th-century Australian women
- Australian Army personnel of World War II
- Military personnel from New South Wales
- Women in the Australian military