Eleanor McFadden

{{Short description|Irish tennis player}}

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| FrenchOpenresult = 2R (1962)

| Wimbledonresult = 1R (1961, 1962)

| USOpenresult = 2R (1962)

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| FrenchOpenDoublesresult = 3R (1962)

| WimbledonDoublesresult = 1R (1959, 1961, 1964, 1965)

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| FrenchOpenMixedresult = 1R (1962)

| WimbledonMixedresult = 2R (1965)

| USOpenMixedresult = QF (1964)

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Eleanor McFadden (nee O'Neill) is an Irish former tennis player.

O'Neill grew up in the village of Laytown in County Meath and is a niece of Mayo footballer Paddy Moclair. From 1956 to 1958 she won three successive national under 18 singles championships and became an Irish number one in the 1960s.{{cite news |title=Tennis club with a big past and a brighter future |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/news/tennis-club-with-a-big-past-and-a-brighter-future-37877317.html |work=Independent |date=9 March 2019 |language=en}} She took part in Ireland's first ever Federation Cup campaign in 1964, which ended in a loss to the United States in Philadelphia. In 1969 she announced she was quitting amateur tennis to pursue professional coaching.{{cite news |title=Eleanor now a teaching professional |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002318/19690114/281/0015 |work=Belfast Telegraph |date=14 January 1969}} She did however make further Federation Cup appearances for Ireland in 1972 and 1973.{{cite news |title=Federation Cup place for coach Eleanor |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002318/19720124/429/0013 |work=Belfast Telegraph |date=24 January 1972}}