Audrey Bates
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| Nationality |  Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 April 1922 Cardiff, Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 November 2001 (aged 79) Cardiff, Wales | ||||||||||||||
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Audrey Glenys Bates (4 April 1922 – 21 November 2001) was a Welsh international in four sports for Wales: table tennis, tennis squash and lacrosse.[1][2]
Early life
[edit]She was educated at Howell's School, Llandaff, and was later the school's games coach.
Table tennis career
[edit]She won a bronze medal in the 1951 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with Audrey Coombs and Betty Gray for Wales.[3]
Squash career
[edit]She was an international squash player and competed in the British Open Squash Championships as a seeded player. She played for Wales between 1947 and 1965.[4]
Tennis career
[edit]She first played tennis at the Radyr club age just 9, before joining the Whitchurch and Cardiff Lawn Tennis Club. Audrey played at Wimbledon in the singles and doubles and was a member of the Welsh lawn tennis team from 1947 to 1954.[4]
Awards and honors
[edit]- Bates was inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "England v Wales 15th January 1949". Table Tennis England. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ^ a b "Sporting Glenys was an all-rounder; Obituaries". South Wales Echo.
- ^ "Audrey Bates". Welsh Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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