Thelma Coyne Long

Thelma Coyne Long

Thelma Dorothy Coyne Long (born in Sydney, Australia, 14 October 1918) was one of the female tennis players who dominated Australian tennis from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. In 2013 Long was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

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