{{Short description|Irish tennis player}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Eleanor O'Neill | image = | fullname = | country_represented = {{IRL}} | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = | plays = | careerprizemoney = | singlesrecord = | singlestitles = | highestsinglesranking = | FrenchOpenresult = 2R (1962) | Wimbledonresult = 1R (1961, 1962) | USOpenresult = 2R (1962) | doublesrecord = | doublestitles = | highestdoublesranking = | FrenchOpenDoublesresult = 3R (1962) | WimbledonDoublesresult = 1R (1959, 1961, 1964, 1965) | USOpenDoublesresult = | FrenchOpenMixedresult = 1R (1962) | WimbledonMixedresult = 2R (1965) | USOpenMixedresult = QF (1964) }} '''Eleanor McFadden''' (nee '''O'Neill''') is an Irish former tennis player.
O'Neill grew up in the village of Laytown in County Meath and is a niece of Mayo footballer Paddy Moclair. From 1956 to 1958 she won three successive national under 18 singles championships and became an Irish number one in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tennis club with a big past and a brighter future |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/news/tennis-club-with-a-big-past-and-a-brighter-future-37877317.html |work=Independent |date=9 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref> She took part in Ireland's first ever Federation Cup campaign in 1964, which ended in a loss to the United States in Philadelphia. In 1969 she announced she was quitting amateur tennis to pursue professional coaching.<ref>{{cite news |title=Eleanor now a teaching professional |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002318/19690114/281/0015 |work=Belfast Telegraph |date=14 January 1969}}</ref> She did however make further Federation Cup appearances for Ireland in 1972 and 1973.<ref>{{cite news |title=Federation Cup place for coach Eleanor |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002318/19720124/429/0013 |work=Belfast Telegraph |date=24 January 1972}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Fed Cup player|800173881}} * {{ITF profile|eleanor-mcfadden/800173881/irl}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:McFadden, Eleanor}} Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Irish female tennis players Category:Sportspeople from County Meath