Lesley Turner Bowrey

This page provides a comprehensive overview of Lesley Turner Bowrey’s Grand Slam career. It combines key background information and career-level statistics with a complete, filterable list of her tournament results, showing how far she progressed in each Grand Slam event across her career.

Insights

Amateur-era peak: two titles and four more finals

Her strongest Grand Slam stretch came before the Open Era, where she won 2 titles and reached 4 additional finals. Those results are spread across 1963, 1965, and 1967, showing repeated contention rather than a single breakthrough.

1967 was her busiest major season

In 1967 she played all four Grand Slams and produced her deepest overall spread: champion at the French Open, finalist at the Australian Open, semifinalist at the US Open, and quarterfinalist at Wimbledon. No other year in the data shows four separate major results.

Open Era results were solid but never title-level

Across the Open Era, her best result was one semifinal, plus 4 quarterfinals and 5 round-of-16 finishes. That profile contrasts sharply with her amateur-era record, where she had multiple finals and titles.

Late-career longevity extended into her mid-30s

Her Grand Slam career spans from age 16 in 1959 to age 35 in 1978, with results still appearing at 35 in both Wimbledon and the French Open. The data shows she remained competitive across nearly two decades.

Australian Open was her most frequent stage for deep runs

She reached at least the quarterfinals or better at the Australian Open in 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1971, and 1976. That repeated pattern makes it the tournament where her strongest results clustered most often.

Basics

Born	16 August 1942
Gender	Female
AKA	Lesley Turner
Nation	Australia
Era	Amateur Era and Open Era
Grand Slam careerCareer	1959, 1961-1965, 1967-1969, 1971, 1973, 1975-1978

Grand Slam statistics

Tournaments	32
Best results Open Era	1 x semifinalist 4 x quarterfinalist 5 x R16
Best results Amateur Era	2 x champion 4 x finalist 5 x semifinalist
Total matches	161
W/L-record	131-30 (81% won)

During the Amateur Era, only top results (quarterfinals or better) from 1945 onwards are listed on this site. Therefore, the list below may not include all Amateur Era results.

Lesley Turner Bowrey – Grand Slam results (year, tournament, result, age)
Year	Tournament	Era	Result	Age
1978	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	35
1978	French Open	Open Era	R16	35
1977	Australian Open (Jan)	Open Era	R32	35
1976	Australian Open	Open Era	Q	33
1975	Australian Open	Open Era	R64	32
1973	US Open	Open Era	R32	31
1973	Australian Open	Open Era	R16	30
1971	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	28
1971	French Open	Open Era	Q	28
1971	Australian Open	Open Era	R16	28
1969	US Open	Open Era	R32	27
1969	Wimbledon	Open Era	Q	26
1969	French Open	Open Era	S	26
1969	Australian Open	Open Era	R16	26
1968	Wimbledon	Open Era	Q	25
1968	Australian Open	Amateur Era	S	25
1967	US Open	Amateur Era	S	25
1967	Wimbledon	Amateur Era	Q	24
1967	French Open	Amateur Era	F	24
1967	Australian Open	Amateur Era	F	24
1965	Wimbledon	Amateur Era	Q	22
1965	French Open	Amateur Era	W	22
1964	Wimbledon	Amateur Era	S	21
1964	French Open	Amateur Era	S	21
1964	Australian Open	Amateur Era	F	21
1963	French Open	Amateur Era	W	20
1963	Australian Open	Amateur Era	S	20
1962	Wimbledon	Amateur Era	Q	19
1962	French Open	Amateur Era	F	19
1962	Australian Open	Amateur Era	Q	19
1961	US Open	Amateur Era	Q	19
1959	Australian Open	Amateur Era	Q	16