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Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley is a former world no.1 and famous Australian tennis player born on the 31st of July in Griffith NSW. She has won 7 grand slam titles in her career. Evonne was born on July 31st, 1951, Griffith, N.S.W. She grew up in a wheat town called Barellan. Her mother worked at home and took care of Evonne and her seven brothers and sisters and her father was a shearer. They were the only aboriginal family in the town. Their house was a tin shack with dirt floors, but Evonne still says that they were the happiest days of her life. When Evonne was five she loved playing Tennis. The Goolagongs were all good at sport. Her first racquet was made from a wooden fruit box. She loved hitting the ball in to the wall with any thing she could get her hands on. After a while she got good Tennis skills. The local people supported her and when she was ten she said that she was going to Wimbledon and win. They always used to like to play games and swim in the irrigation canal. Evonne was very fond of this because she won most of the games. The Evonne and her siblings attended the local school where they were only aborigines. When she was 11 she was given the chance to travel to Sydney and train seriously to become a champion tennis player. She grabbed that opportunity and after that she never looked back. She was astonishing, by the young age of 13 she had already won more than 80 singles and doubles age titles. When she was 14, she moved to Sydney to live with her coach Vick Edwards. She went to school at Willoughby High where she enjoyed many sporting opportunities. Evonne worked very hard with her coach Vic Edwards and started to win many local competitions. When Evonne was eighteen Vic Edwards decided it was time to go to Wimbledon. In 1970 Evonne left Australia to go on her first overseas tour to Britain. At the early age of 19, she met Roger Cawley, the man she would marry. When she came back to Australia and was chosen to play for Australia in the 1970 Federation Cup. In 1971 she won the French Open in the same year she won Wimbledon she was now No.1 in the world. In 1972 she was awarded an MBE which is the Member of the British Empire title, she was also Australian of the Year. The money that she made meant that she could help her family. She was now famous and wealthy, touring the world nine months of the year. She received the nicknames "super mum", "La Belle Evonne" and "Sunshine Super Girl". In 1974, her father was killed in a car accident but she didn't go home for the funeral.    She first played doubles with Trisha Edwards. She married Roger Cawley in 1974 and she retired in 1981 when her son Morgan was born. Evonne had a very successful Tennis career winning four Australian opens and one French open. She won 92 professional tournaments [] [] [] [] []
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