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Margaret Hellyer (born 29 July 1937) is an Australian former tennis player.[1]

Margaret Hellyer

Country (sports)	Australia
Born	(1937-07-29) 29 July 1937 (age 85)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (1955, 1956, 1957, 1958)
French Open	3R (1957)
Wimbledon	4R (1960)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	SF (1957)
Wimbledon	QF (1959, 1960)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	SF (1957)

Active in the 1950s and 1960s, Hellyer is a native of Sydney and had some of her best results on the grass courts of Wimbledon. She won the All England Plate in 1957 and was a mixed doubles semi-finalist that year with Roy Emerson. Her best singles run was a fourth round appearance in 1960 and she twice reached the women's doubles quarter-finals.

Personal life

Hellyer had a relationship with Brazilian tennis player Carlos Fernandes and the pair were engaged.[2] She was married to Kenneth Burston, an Englishman from Shropshire, in a 1963 wedding in Sydney.[3]

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