What is Thelma Coyne Long?
[[File:Thelma Coyne 1932.jpg|thumb|Coyne Long in May 1932.]] '''Thelma Dorothy Coyne Long''' (14 October 1918 &ndash; 13 April 2015) was an [[Australia]]n [[tennis]] player. She was one of the female players who dominated Australian tennis from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. During her career, she won 19 [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] tournament titles. In 2013, she was added into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Coyne Long was born in [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]]. For a short time in the early 1940s during [[World War II]], she was married to Maurice Newton Long. Coyne Long died on 13 April 2015 in the Sydney suburb of [[Narrabeen, New South Wales|Narrabeen]], aged 96.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/04/16/aussie-tennis-great-thelma-coyne-long-dies|title=Aussie tennis great Thelma Coyne Long dies|publisher=[[Special Broadcasting Service|SBS]]|date=16 April 2015|accessdate=15 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/obituary.aspx?n=thelma-long&pid=174630648|title=Thelma LONG Obituary|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|date=15 April 2015|accessdate=16 April 2015}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Sports-bio-stub}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Coyne Long, Thelma}} [[Category:1918 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Australian military people]] [[Category:Australian tennis players]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Sydney]]