Hazel Redick-Smith’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro South African tennis player
Was Athlete
Tennis player
From South Africa
Type Sports
Gender female
Birth

21 May 1926, Union of South Africa

Death

23 June 1996, Johannesburg, South Africa
(aged 70 years)

Star sign Gemini

Hazel Redick-Smith, (born 1926) is a female former tennis player from South Africa who was active in the 1950s.

Career

Redick-Smith teamed with fellow South African Julia Wipplinger to reach the doubles final at the 1952 French Championships. In the final they were defeated in straight sets by Doris Hart and Shirley Fry. They again reached the doubles final at a Grand Slam tournament two years later at the 1954 Australian Championships. This time the Australian team of Mary Bevis Hawton and Beryl Penrose won in straight sets. Her best Grand Slam performance in the singles was reaching the quarterfinals at the 1955 French Championships and the fourth round at the 1955 Wimbledon Championships.

In April 1951 she was runner-up to Sheila Summers in the singles event of the South African Championships. In June 1952 she won the finals of the singles event at the Kent Championships in Beckenham and the London Grass Court Championships, played at the Queens Club. In July 1952 she won the singles title at the Swedish Open in Båstad beating by her doubles partner Julia Wipplinger in straight sets. She was part of a South African team, with Julia Wipplinger, Ian Vermaak, Owen Williams and Abe Segal who went on a tour in Australia in February and March 1954. In 1953, 1954 and 1955 Redick-Smith won the singles title at the South African Championships. In July 1955 she won the singles title at the Midlands Counties Championships in Birmingham, England after defeating Beryl Penrose in the final in straight sets. The week thereafter she went on to win the singles title of the Swiss Championships in Gstaad.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (2 losses)

Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 1952 French Championships Clay Julia Wipplinger Doris Hart
Shirley Fry 		5–7, 1–6
Loss 1954 Australian Championships Grass Julia Wipplinger Mary Bevis Hawton
Beryl Penrose 		3–6, 6–8
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