Linda Cassell

Linda Cassell
Country (sports) Australia
Born (1962-04-24) 24 April 1962 (age 62)
PlaysRight-handed
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open2R (1980)
WimbledonQ3 (1981)
US OpenQ1 (1981)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenQF (1980)

Linda Cassell (born 24 April 1962) is an Australian former professional tennis player.[1]

Tennis career

Cassell was trained in Canberra at the Australian Institute of Sport but grew up in Brisbane, where she attended Lourdes Hill College.[2] She was a girls' doubles champion at the 1979 Australian Open (with Susan Leo).

In 1980 she had her best Australian Open performance, reaching the women's singles second round and doubles quarter-finals. The following year she won two singles qualifying matches at Wimbledon, before falling in the final round.

Religious sisterhood

Cassell is now a Catholic nun, having joined the Sisters of the Good Samaritan in 2007.[2][3] She made her perpetual profession in St Scholastica' College chapel at Glebe Point, Sydney. Cassell attended Lourdes Hill College in Brisbane, a secondary school established in 1916 by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. She has worked as a counsellor at Bede Polding College, Windsor, in Sydney's outer western suburbs and served on the Board of Directors of Stella Maris College, Manly in Sydney.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Cassell's hope abandoned". The Canberra Times. 1 June 1981. p. 15. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Tennis champ joins Good Samaritans". The Catholic Leader. 28 April 2007.
  3. ^ "Tennis: Outcry over tennis girls' diets claims outcry". The Independent. 2 January 1999. Archived from the original on 14 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Stellabration 2011: Celebrating 80 years 1931-2011" (PDF).