{{Infobox tennis biography | name = Hazel Cheadle | image = | fullname = | country_represented = {{GBR}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1922|11|08|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1999|03|08|1922|11|08|df=yes}} | death_place = | height = | plays = | careerprizemoney = | singlesrecord = | singlestitles = | highestsinglesranking = | Wimbledonresult = 4R (1953) | WimbledonDoublesresult = 3R (1959) | WimbledonMixedresult = 3R (1957, 1960) }} '''Hazel Cheadle''' (née Austin; 8 November 1922 — 8 March 1999) was a British field hockey and tennis player.
Cheadle, raised in Hampshire, developed an interest in tennis while acting as a ball girl for her parents.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sportswoman to the last |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004074/19990313/135/0006 |work=New Milton Advertiser |date=13 March 1999}}</ref> Her father was headmaster of Milford School.<ref>{{cite news |title=Personalia |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004074/19550305/090/0008 |work=New Milton Advertiser |date=5 March 1955}}</ref>
Based in Birmingham, Cheadle was a Warwickshire representative player and won the county singles title nine times in a row.<ref name="Birmingham">{{cite news |title=Birmingham's thanks to Hazel Cheadle |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19730614/542/0028 |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=14 June 1973}}</ref> She made the singles fourth round of the 1953 Wimbledon Championships.<ref>{{cite news |title=Girls, don't you know how to fight? |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000669/19530708/100/0004 |work=Birmingham Daily Gazette |date=8 July 1953}}</ref>
During the 1960s she played international matches for the England national field hockey team.<ref name="Birmingham"/>
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