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Goolagong Cawley

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Goo·la·gong Caw·ley  (gl-gông kôl), Evonne Born 1951.
Australian tennis player who won women's singles championships at Wimbledon (1971 and 1980), the French Open (1971), and the Australian Open (1974, 1976, and 1978).


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Eighteen-month-old daughter Jada was in the stadium to see Clijsters become the first mother to win a grand slam since Evonne Goolagong Cawley beat Chris Evert to win Wimbledon in 1980.
If I inspired them, great," she said after becoming the first mother since Australian great Evonne Goolagong Cawley at Wimbledon in 1980 - and only the third in the 41-year Open era - to win a grand slam.
Goolagong Cawley became an inspiration for working mothers the world over when she won Wimbledon in 1980, three years after giving birth to a daughter.
 
 
 
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