Mary McAnally

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| fullname = Mary Basil Hamilton McAnally

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1945|04|09|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Epsom, Surrey

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|03|03|1945|04|09|df=yes}}

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| FrenchOpenresult = 2R (1966)

| Wimbledonresult = 1R (1963, 1964, 1965, 1966)

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| FrenchOpenDoublesresult = 3R (1966)

| WimbledonDoublesresult = 2R (1963)

| USOpenDoublesresult = 2R (1969)

| WimbledonMixedresult = 3R (1965)

| USOpenMixedresult = 1R (1969)

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Mary Basil Hamilton McAnally (9 April 1945 – 3 March 2016) was a British television producer and tennis player.{{cite news |title=Ex-tennis champ gets top television job |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002472/19960705/098/0013 |work=Reading Evening Post |date=5 July 1996}}

McAnally was born in Epsom, Surrey and attended Tiffin Girls' School. She was the twin sister of Royal Navy officer John McAnally. Their father Patrick, a scholar, was involved in establishing the John Lewis Partnership and their mother, Basil, was notably the London Fire Brigade's first female officer during World War II.{{cite news |last1=McAnally |first1=John |title=Mary McAnally obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/22/mary-mcanally-obituary |work=The Guardian |date=22 March 2016 |language=en}}

Active in tennis in the 1960s, McAnally was a British junior covered court champion, winning the final against Virginia Wade. She featured in four editions of the Wimbledon Championships and played at county level for Surrey.{{cite news |title=Mary McAnally, television executive – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/04/27/mary-mcanally-television-executive--obituary/ |work=The Telegraph |date=27 April 2016}}

In 1979 she married journalist Hugh Macpherson.

McAnally, a graduate of London Business School, has production credits which include Money-Go-Round, The John Smith Show, 4 What It’s Worth and The Time, the Place. In 1996 she was appointed managing director of Meridian Broadcasting, before leaving the television industry in the early 2000s.