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Cozens won the women's singles title at the Australian Championships five times, in 1925, 1926, 1928, 1929, and 1930. She ranks third on the list of most women's singles titles at the Australian Championships, behind only Margaret Smith Court with eleven titles and Nancye Wynne Bolton with six titles. The Australian Open is the first of the worlds four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, held each January at Melbourne Park. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Margaret Smith Court (nee Margaret Jean Smith) (born July 16, 1942) is a retired Australian professional tennis player, who was one of the most successful players in the history of the sport. ... Nancye Wynne Bolton was a female tennis player from Australia and best remembered for being a six-time Australian Championships womens singles champion (second only to Margaret Smith Court with 11 titles). ...

Cozens also won the women's doubles title at the Australian Championships five times: in 1924 and 1925 with Sylvia Lance Harper, in 1928 with Esna Boyd Robertson, and in 1929 and 1931 with Louise Bickerton. Cozens and Marjorie Cox were the runner-ups in 1926. 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Sylvia Lance-Harper (born in 1895) was a female tennis player from Australia. ... Esna Boyd (1901-1962), an Australian tennis player, reached the finals of the Australian Open seven years in a row, from 1922 to 1928, winning the title in 1927. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Louise Bickerton was a female tennis player from Australia who won the womens doubles title at the 1927, 1929, and 1931 Australian Championships. ... Marjorie Cox Crawford was a female tennis player from Australia who reached at least the singles quarterfinals at the Australian Championships seven out of the nine times she played the event. ...

Cozens won the mixed doubles title at the Australian Championships four times: in 1924 and 1925 with John Willard, in 1928 with Jean Borotra, and in 1929 with Gar Moon. Cozens and Willard were the runner-ups in 1926. Jean Borotra, the Bounding Basque Borotra (right), with Jacques Brugnon a great doubles player Jean Robert Borotra (born on August 13, 1898 in Domaine du Pouy, near Biarritz – died on June 17, 1994 in Arbonne) was a champion tennis player, one of the famous Four Musketeers from France who dominated... Edgar Gar Moon (December 3, 1904 - May 26, 1976) was an Australian tennis player who won all three Mens titles at the Australian Open. ...

Cozens and her partner Jack Crawford reached the mixed doubles final at Wimbledon in 1928, losing to the team of Elizabeth Ryan and Patrick Spence 7-5, 6-4. Jack Crawford (22 March 1775 in the East End of the Sunderland, England - 10 November 1831) was a sailor of the Royal Navy known as the Hero of Camperdown. ... The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly referred to as simply Wimbledon, is the oldest event in the sport of tennis. ... Elizabeth Ryan was an American tennis player who holds the most womens doubles and mixed doubles titles in Wimbledon history. ...

Cozens died of an ectopic pregnancy on January 9, 1933, at the age of 29. The trophy presented each year to the women's singles titlist at the Australian Open is named the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup in her honor. January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...

Cozens was inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame on Australia Day, January 26, 2006. January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Grand Slam singles finals

Wins (5)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1925	Australian Championships	Esna Boyd Robertson	1-6, 8-6, 6-4
1926	Australian Championships (2)	Esna Boyd Robertson	6-1, 6-3
1928	Australian Championships (3)	Esna Boyd Robertson	7-5, 6-2
1929	Australian Championships (4)	Louise Bickerton	6-1, 5-7, 6-2
1930	Australian Championships (5)	Sylvia Lance Harper	10-8, 2-6, 7-5

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Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

NH = tournament not held. 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar). ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... The Australian Open tennis tournament, now held annually during the last two weeks of January, but formerly held in December in many years, is chronologically the first of the worlds four major tournaments which together constitute the Grand Slam. ... For the golf tournament, see Open de France. ... The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly referred to as simply Wimbledon, is the oldest event in the sport of tennis. ... For the article about the U.S. Open 2006, click here. ...

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

¹The French Championships were not held in 1924, as the Olympics were held in Paris that year.

See also

• Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final

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External links

• Australian Dictionary of Biography