Linda Cassell
| Country (sports) |  Australia |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 April 1962 |
| Plays | Right-handed |
| Singles | |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (1980) |
| Wimbledon | Q3 (1981) |
| US Open | Q1 (1981) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| Australian Open | QF (1980) |
Linda Cassell (born 24 April 1962) is an Australian former professional tennis player.[1]
Tennis career
[edit]Cassell was trained in Canberra at the Australian Institute of Sport but grew up in Brisbane, where she attended Lourdes Hill College.[2] She was a girls' doubles champion at the 1979 Australian Open (with Susan Leo).
In 1980 she had her best Australian Open performance, reaching the women's singles second round and doubles quarter-finals. The following year she won two singles qualifying matches at Wimbledon, before falling in the final round.
Religious sisterhood
[edit]Cassell is now a Catholic nun, having joined the Sisters of the Good Samaritan in 2007.[2][3] She made her perpetual profession in St Scholastica' College chapel at Glebe Point, Sydney. Cassell attended Lourdes Hill College in Brisbane, a secondary school established in 1916 by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. She has worked as a counsellor at Bede Polding College, Windsor, in Sydney's outer western suburbs and served on the Board of Directors of Stella Maris College, Manly in Sydney.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Cassell's hope abandoned". The Canberra Times. 1 June 1981. p. 15. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- ^ a b "Tennis champ joins Good Samaritans". The Catholic Leader. 28 April 2007.
- ^ "Tennis: Outcry over tennis girls' diets claims outcry". The Independent. 2 January 1999. Archived from the original on 14 June 2022.
- ^ "Stellabration 2011: Celebrating 80 years 1931-2011" (PDF).
External links
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- 1962 births
- Living people
- Australian female tennis players
- Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
- 21st-century Australian Roman Catholic nuns
- Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles
- Tennis players from Brisbane
- Australian Institute of Sport tennis players
- Sportswomen from Queensland
- 20th-century Australian sportswomen