Linda Cassell
{{Short description|Former professional Australian tennis player, now member of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan}}
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| AustralianOpenresult = 2R (1980)
| Wimbledonresult = Q3 (1981)
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Linda Cassell (born 24 April 1962) is an Australian former professional tennis player.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article125638058 |title=Cassell's hope abandoned |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=1 June 1981 |accessdate=30 December 2021 |page=15}}
Tennis career
Cassell was trained in Canberra at the Australian Institute of Sport but grew up in Brisbane, where she attended Lourdes Hill College.{{cite web |title=Tennis champ joins Good Samaritans |url=https://catholicleader.com.au/news/tennis-champ-joins-good-samaritans_42863/ |website=The Catholic Leader |language=en-AU |date=28 April 2007}} 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.{{cite news |title=Tennis: Outcry over tennis girls' diets claims outcry |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis-outcry-over-tennis-girls-diets-claims-outcr-1044546.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis-outcry-over-tennis-girls-diets-claims-outcr-1044546.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Independent |date=2 January 1999 |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Stellabration 2011: Celebrating 80 years 1931-2011 |url=https://stellamaris.nsw.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/magazines/2011.pdf}}
References
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External links
- {{WTA}}
- {{ITF}}
- {{Wimbledon player}}
{{Australian Open girls' doubles champions}}
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Category:Australian female tennis players
Category:Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
Category:21st-century Australian Roman Catholic nuns
Category:Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles
Category:Tennis players from Brisbane
Category:Australian Institute of Sport tennis players