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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Evonne Goolagong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley AO MBE (born July 31, 1951, in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia) was one of the world's leading female tennis players in the 1970s and early-1980s.
		Goolagong was a member of the Board of the Australian Sports Commission from 1995 to 1997 and since 1997 has held the position of Sports Ambassador to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities.
		Evonne Goolagong Cawley was born on July 31, 1951, in Griffith, NSW, Australia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Evonne-Goolagong (5444 words)

	Evonne Goolagong Cawley Relationships plus Evonne Goolagong Cawley and You
		Evonne Goolagong Cawley responds very strongly to the emotional tone and atmosphere around her, and can be dominated by her fluctuating and unpredictable moods.
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	www.topsynergy.com /famous/Evonne_Goolagong.asp (846 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Evonne Goolagong
		She won the Australian Open four times, Wimbledon twice, the French Open once and was runner up for four years in a row at the US Open in a Grand Slam career containing 18 finals appearances.
		Evonne was appointed captain of the Federation Cup team in 2002.
		In 2003 Evonne Goolagong Cawley was winner for the Oceania region of the International Olympic Committee's 2003 Women and Sports Trophy[?].
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ev/Evonne_Goolagong (128 words)

	Australian Sports Commission - AIS Tours
		Evonne Goolagong Cawley, a Wiradjuri Aborigine, is one of Australia ’s most successful tennis players and the first Australian Aboriginal to win Wimbledon.
		Goolagong won the Italian Open in 1973 and was the Virginia Slims circuit champion in 1974 and 1976.
		In 2000 Goolagong was awarded a Centenary medal and was appointed captain of the Federation Cup in 2002.
	www.ausport.gov.au /tours/sportex/legends/Cawley.asp (210 words)

	Evonne Goolagong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley AO MBE (born July 31, 1951, in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia) was one of the world's leading female tennis players in the 1970s and early-1980s.
		Goolagong was also a member of the Australian teams that won the Fed Cup in 1971, 1973, and 1974.
		Goolagong was a member of the Board of the Australian Sports Commission from 1995 to 1997 and since 1997 has held the position of Sports Ambassador to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evonne_Goolagong (1064 words)

	Goolagong Cawley shows she still draws a crowd - theage.com.au
		In 1971, Evonne Goolagong was galvanised by the rumour that she was about to be chosen to represent Australia for the first time.
		Goolagong Cawley, as she would become, was duly selected to make her Federation Cup debut, at the behest of her childhood idol and new teammate, Margaret Court.
		The young Goolagong was invited to stay at Court's Perth home, and went on to win both her matches in the final against Virginia Wade's English team.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/04/16/1018333501152.html (597 words)

	Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley "Sunshine Supergirl" - International Tennis Hall of Fame
		As one of eight children of an itinerant sheep-shearer, Ken Goolagong, and his wife, Melinda, she spent her formative years in the small country town of Barellan in wheat and sheep territory west of Sydney.
		Seeded fourth, Evonne made a spirited run through 1977 runner-up Betty Stove, ninth-seeded Hana Mandlikova, Wendy Turnbull (sixth), Tracy Austin (second), 6-3, 0-6, 6-4, and Evert (third), 6-1, 7-6 (7-1), the only Wimbledon singles championship to end in a tie-breaker.
		At Wimbledon, Evonne was 49-9 in singles, 21-7 in doubles, 19-8 in mixed.
	www.tennisfame.com /famer.aspx?pgID=867&hof_id=123 (691 words)

	Observer \| Goolagong sets sights on the future
		Evonne Goolagong grew up in a dusty township in rural Australia to become a star of the global sport of tennis.
		On the men's side, Goolagong is fascinated by her compatriot Lleyton Hewitt and sees in his feistiness many of the characteristics of one of her great adversaries, the American Billie Jean King.
		From early on, all Goolagong wanted to do was play tennis and by the age of 13 she had won more than 80 singles and doubles titles.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4838903-102283,00.html (990 words)

	Evonne's biggest hits come into service - National - www.smh.com.au
		Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Linda Burney at the annual lunch of the Jessie Street Trust in Parliament House, Sydney.
		When Evonne Goolagong was eight, her father carved a bat out of an apple crate and she used it to hit a tennis ball against a wall, over and over, day after day.
		Goolagong Cawley was speaking at the annual lunch of the Jessie Street Trust, with Linda Burney, state MP for Canterbury.
	smh.com.au /articles/2005/04/22/1114152325406.html?oneclick=true (506 words)

	Evonne Goolagong
		Evonne's parents knew nothing of tennis, but a local called Bill Kurtzman noticed her watching tennis through the fence of the tennis courts.
		Knowing that Evonne wouldn't be able to develop in the bush, Edwards convinced her parents to let her move to Sydney and move to Sydney to live with him.
		Evonne moved to his place in 1967 at the age of 13.
	www.allinfoabouttennis.com /Evonne_Goolagong.html (835 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Sports :: Goolagong Shocks Evert, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4
		The third-seeded Goolagong, displaying a complete assortment of her erratic but effective weapons, mixed those ingredients expertly yesterday afternoon, upending number-two seed, Evert, in a 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 thriller at B.U.'s Walter Brown Arena.
		Goolagong, who prefers a more aggressive style of play, lost all the momentum of the opening games and virtually handed over two service breaks and the first set to Evert.
		The victory was the first time Goolagong has beaten Evert since the spring of 1976, when she downed Evert in a three-set final to take the Virginia Slims championship.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=138400 (701 words)

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Evonne Goolagong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		One of eight children of part aborigine background, Goolagong played cricket, rugby, and soccer with boys as a child and began playing tennis informally when she was eight years old.
		Named the female athlete of the year by the Associated Press in 1971, Goolagong won the Italian Open in 1973 and was the Virginia Slims circuit champion in 1974 and 1976.
		Goolagong married English businessman Roger Cawley and had a daughter in 1977.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/goolagonge.shtml (255 words)

	Legend nurtures next generation - theage.com.au
		Australian tennis legend Evonne Goolagong Cawley, the International Olympic Committee's 2003 Women and Sports Trophy winner for the Oceania region, says Australia is closing in on producing its next great female player.
		Goolagong Cawley said she was living out her post-career dream to introduce as many young Australian females to tennis as possible.
		The Evonne Goolagong Getting Started Program was launched by Goolagong Cawley and Tennis Australia five years ago and revolves around "fun days" at which girls aged from seven to 10 are coached by the tennis great.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/03/01/1046407803760.html (388 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		He convinced her parents to allow Evonne to move to Sydney, where she was coached by Edwards and lived in his household.
		She was the first mother in 66 years to win the Wimbledon singles title, the previous one being English woman Dorothea Lambert-Chambers in 1914.
		Her career prize-money totalled U.S. Following her marriage to Roger Cawley in 1975, Goolagong settled in the United States (in Naples, Florida).
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Evonne_Goolagong (1091 words)

	CNN/SI - Catching up With ...
		Evonne Goolagong spent two decades away from home, which isn't so bad when you're winning a couple of Wimbledons, four Australian Opens and a French Open along the way.
		Long-armed and graceful, with laser reflexes, Goolagong competed when Billie Jean King was still near the top of her game, Chris Evert was coming into her prime and Martina Navratilova was beginning to evolve into the greatest female player.
		Goolagong came out of nowhere to win the 1971 French Open at 19 and then shocked the world again a month later when she routed her idol, fellow Australian Margaret Court, 6-4, 6-1, to win Wimbledon.
	media.cnnsi.com /features/1998/weekly/catchingup/0525 (448 words)

	CNNSI.com - SI For Women - 100 Greatest Female Athletes - Monday November 29, 1999 03:39 PM
		Four-year-old Goolagong started swatting the balls around with a borrowed racket, and the rest is tennis history.
		Goolagong retired three years later after suffering recurring foot problems, and in 1991 moved back to Australia, hoping to reconnect with her roots after living in the U.S. for eight years with her husband, Roger Cawley, and two children.
		Goolagong -- who during her career earned $1.4 million and reached 18 Grand Slam finals -- is an International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /siforwomen/top_100/72 (399 words)

	Ken Hoffman: Playing a tennis legend is courting disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Goolagong was in Houston to promote the Virginia Slims Legends event at the Westside Tennis Club, May 18-19.
		Goolagong said fans often are shocked to hear she has a 19-year-old daughter, Kelly, an aspiring actress, and a 14-year-old son, Morgan, who's an ace boogie boarder back in Australia.
		Goolagong still puts the "slim" in Virginia Slims and glides gracefully around the court, smacking backhand winners at whim.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/05/10/hoffman.html (615 words)

	Evonne Cawley - Saxton Speaker Bureau - Speaker Details
		Evonne Cawley MBE OA Evonne is Australia's most loved women's tennis player and one of the country's most admired Aboriginal sportspeople.
		Among the list of historic firsts achieved by Evonne Cawley (nee Goolagong) perhaps the most remarkable is her victory over Chris Evert-Lloyd in 1980 which resulted in her becoming the first mother ever to win Wimbledon.
		At the age of ten Evonne Goolagong left her home town of Barellan and travelled to Sydney where she lived and trained at the suburb of Roseville with tennis coach Vic Edwards.
	www.saxton.com.au /default.asp?sd8=1059 (278 words)

	Cawley, Evonne Fay Goolagong - Australian Women Biographical entry
		Evonne Cawley, a member of the Wiradjuri people, was the first indigenous Australian to win a Wimbledon Tennis Championship in 1971.
		Evonne Cawley was the daughter of Kenny Goolagong, a shearer, and his wife Linda, née Hamilton.
		Cawley, Evonne and Collins, Bud, with Edwards, Victor, Evonne, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, London, 1975, 191 pp.
	www.womenaustralia.info /biogs/IMP0070b.htm (882 words)

	Evonne Goolagong Cawley: QuickSports.
		Evonne Goolagong, now Evonne Cawley, was born on July 31, 1951 and grew up (from age 3) in Barellan, Narrandera Shire, New South Wales, Australia, about 400 miles southwest of Sydney, as the 3rd of 8 children in the only aborigine family in a town of about 900 population.
		When Evonne was a year old, she found some old tennis balls in a used Chevy her father, a sheep-shearer, had bought.
		Evonne took to carrying a tennis ball around with her most of the time, and it was a very familiar object to her by the time the War Memorial Tennis Club was built in Barellan when she was about 4.
	tennis.quickfound.net /history/evonne_goolagong_cawley.html (4664 words)

	Hong Kong Goolagong - XFamily - Children of God
		Hong Kong Goolagong is believed by The Family to be a sexually ambiguous Australian Aboriginal hitchhiking demon who attacks Christian missionaries who bring the advances of Western civilization to dark-skinned people and Aborigines in particular.
		The name “Goolagong” was revealed by David Berg in a coughing fit where “every cough was a word and … every word was shaped like a nipple with all the nerves running up to the nipple.” Berg described the 1981 “demonic attack” as similar to being overwhelmed by smothering female breasts.
		The name Goolagong is shared by Evonne Goolagong Cawley, winner of the 1971 and 1980 Women’s Wimbleton tennis championships, who is also of Aboriginal heritage.
	www.xfamily.org /index.php/Hong_Kong_Goolagong (811 words)

	Welcome to InterSector - Communicating with the Public Sector
		The two-time Wimbledon champion began playing tennis at the age of four with a racquet fashioned by her father, a shearer, in the town of Barellan in NSW and went on to become one of the country's most recognised female tennis players.
		Executive Producer Peter Sjoquist said Evonne's support of the festival was important to help young Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people in rural and remote Australia believe they had the capacity to realize their dreams.
		In 1971, Evonne's contribution to the country was formally recognised being awarded an MBE and becoming Australian of the Year.
	intersector.wa.gov.au /current_issue/croctennis.htm (885 words)

	National Museum of Australia - Goolagong Cawley's trophies acquired for nation
		Tennis champion Evonne Goolagong Cawley's Wimbledon trophies have found a home at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra - with the spoils of her 1980 victory set to go on show in a new sports exhibition opening on 1 December.
		The National Museum recently acquired Evonne's 1971 and 1980 Wimbledon singles trophies, the trophy from her 1974 doubles win and two racquets used in the tournaments.
		Media are invited to meet Evonne Goolagong Cawley in the National Museum's Nation Gallery at 12pm tomorrow, Wednesday, 16 November.
	www.nma.gov.au /media/media_releases_index/2005_11_15 (470 words)

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