Sheila Armstrong (tennis)

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| name = Sheila Armstrong

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| country_represented = {{GBR}}

| birth_date = 1939

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| death_date = 1979 (aged 39)

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| AustralianOpenresult = 2R (1956)

| Wimbledonresult = 4R (1957)

| USOpenresult = 3R (1957)

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| WimbledonDoublesresult = QF (1960)

| WimbledonMixedresult = 4R (1957, 1959)

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Sheila Armstrong (1939–1979) was a British tennis player. She became Sheila Brown after marriage.{{cite news |title=Sheila Brown Dies At 39 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/750623397 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=20 January 1979}}

Born in 1939, Armstrong grew up around Manchester, where her father worked as a bank manager. The family lived in the town of Droylsden before they moved to Didsbury to be close to the Northern Lawn Tennis Club.{{cite news |title=Tennis hope |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/800932735 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=4 March 1955}} She attended Manchester Girls High School.{{cite news |title=Speaking Personally |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/800759428 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=4 June 1954}} In 1955 she claimed the junior singles title at Wimbledon. The following year, Armstrong won the junior doubles event with Lorraine Coghlan during the 1956 Australian Championships.{{cite news |last1=Lawrence |first1=Don |title=Clean Sweep by Victorian Juniors |work=The Age |date=31 January 1956 |page=20}}

Armstrong earned a place on the British Wightman Cup team in 1957, playing doubles with Shirley Broomer. She made the singles fourth round at Wimbledon in 1957 and reached the quarter-finals of the women's doubles in 1960 partnering Deidre Catt. In 1960, her final year touring, she won several titles on the French Riviera tennis circuit.{{cite news |title=Sheila Armstrong Gets Fourth Title |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/887663411 |work=Nottingham Evening News |date=28 March 1960}}