{{Short description|South African tennis player (died 1957)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Use South African English|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Nigel Cockburn | image = | fullname = Nigel M. Cockburn | country_represented = {{RSA|1928}} | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = {{date of death|df=y|1957|03|08|=df}} (aged 34) | death_place = | height = | plays = | careerprizemoney = | singlesrecord = | singlestitles = | highestsinglesranking = | FrenchOpenresult = 3R (1951, 1952) | Wimbledonresult = 4R (1949) }} '''Nigel M. Cockburn''' was a South African tennis player of Scottish descent.<ref>{{cite news |title=To Compete For Scots Tennis Titles |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000563/19490705/078/0008 |work=Dundee Evening Telegraph |date=5 July 1949}}</ref>
A native of Natal, Cockburn was active on tour in the 1940s and 1950s. While touring the British Isles in 1949 he made the fourth round at Wimbledon and won both the Irish Championships and Scottish Championships.<ref>{{cite news |title=S. African Champion |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19490718/081/0004 |work=Aberdeen Press and Journal |date=18 July 1949}}</ref> He had further success in England in 1951 when he claimed the All England Plate. In 1952 he beat 15th-seed Enrique Morea at the French Championships, before losing his third round match in five sets to Kurt Nielsen.<ref>{{cite web |title=Roland-Garros 1952 (Grand Slam) - Men singles |url=http://ww2.fft.fr/rolandgarros/pdfpalmares/hommes1952_en.pdf |website=www.fft.fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203011639/http://ww2.fft.fr/rolandgarros/pdfpalmares/hommes1952_en.pdf|archive-date=3 December 2013}}</ref>
Cockburn died of an undisclosed illness in 1957 at the age of 34.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nigel Cockburn Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/852975500 |work=Ledger-Enquirer |date=9 March 1957}}</ref>
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