Audrey Bates

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Audrey Glenys Bates (4 April 1922 – 21 November 2001) was a Welsh international athlete in four sports for Wales: table tennis, tennis, squash and lacrosse.{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=audrey-bates-130688|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}}{{cite web|url=https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/news/friday-photos/friday-photos-no-43-womens-british-league/|title=England v Wales 15th January 1949|publisher=Table Tennis England|access-date=15 March 2018|archive-date=28 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028081347/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/news/friday-photos/friday-photos-no-43-womens-british-league/|url-status=dead}} She as inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame posthumously in 2002.

Biography

Bates was born in Cardiff, the daughter of Charlie Bates. She had twin sister, Barbara, and two other sisters; their father was an accountant and amateur golfer.[https://www.womensarchivewales.org/en/women-and-sport-wales-project Audrey Bates], Women and Sports: Wales Project, Women's Archive Wales. She was educated at Howell's School, Llandaff, and was later the school's games coach. During World War II she worked at the an ordnance factory in Llanishen. She retired from school work in 1982. She died in 2001, at the age of 79, in Cardiff.{{cite web |title=Audrey Bates |url=https://welsh-sports-hall-of-fame.wales/az/535/ |accessdate=28 February 2020 |website=Welsh Sports Hall of Fame}}

Sports career

In addition to competing in table tennis, squash, and tennis, she was an active player of lacrosse, golf, and field hockey. She was president of the Welsh Lacrosse Association. She was awarded the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 1977, "for services to sport". Bates was posthumously inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.

= Table tennis =

Bates 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.{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|title=Table Tennis World Championship medal winners|publisher=Sports123|access-date=15 March 2018|archive-date=22 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|url-status=dead}}

= Squash =

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sporting+Glenys+was+an+all-rounder%3B+Obituaries.-a080627887|title=Sporting Glenys was an all-rounder; Obituaries|publisher=South Wales Echo}}

= Tennis =

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.

References

Category:Welsh female table tennis players

Category:Welsh female squash players

Category:Welsh female tennis players

Category:British female tennis players

Category:Sportspeople from Cardiff

Category:1922 births

Category:2001 deaths

Category:World Table Tennis Championships medalists