LouieHer name is commonly misspelt as "Louise" Mildred Bickerton Cozens (née Bickerton) (11 August 1902 – 6 June 1998) was a female tennis player from Australia. She was born in Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia and won the women's doubles titles at the 1927, 1929, and 1931 Australian Championships. She won the mixed doubles title at those championships in 1935 and was the runner-up in the 1929 singles and 1935 women's doubles at that tournament.
Perhaps Bickerton's biggest singles victory outside of Australia was her first round defeat of 44-year-old and eight time U.S. champion Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in the first round of Wimbledon in 1928. The score was 6–3, 4–6, 6–4.
Bickerton was friends with Daphne Akhurst Cozens. In 1935 she married Daphne's widower, Royston Stuckey Cozens, to whom she remained married for 63 years until her death at the age of 95.
Grand Slam finals Singles (1 runner-up) ResultYearChampionshipSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 1929 Australian Championships Grass Daphne Akhurst 1–6, 7–5, 2–6
Doubles (3 titles, 1 runner-up) ResultYearChampionshipSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1927 Australian Championships Grass Meryl O'Hara Wood Esna Boyd Sylvia Lance Harper 6–3, 6–3Win 1929 Australian Championships Grass Daphne Akhurst Sylvia Lance Harper Meryl O'Hara Wood 6–2, 3–6, 6–2Win 1931 Australian Championships Grass Daphne Akhurst Nell Lloyd Lorna Utz 6–0, 6–4Loss 1935 Australian Championships Grass Nell Hopman Evelyn Dearman Nancy Lyle 3–6, 4–6
Grand Slam singles tournament timeline
Tournament 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 Career SR Australian Championships2RASFSFFSFQFAASFQF 0 / 8 French ChampionshipsAAA3RAAAAAAA 0 / 1 WimbledonAAA4RAAAAAAA 0 / 1 U.S. ChampionshipsAAAAAAAAAAA 0 / 0 SR0 / 10 / 00 / 10 / 30 / 10 / 10 / 10 / 00 / 00 / 10 / 1 0 / 10
Notes
See also Performance timelines for all female tennis players since 1978 who reached at least one Grand Slam final