# Robin Blakelock

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{{Short description|British tennis player (born 1944)}}
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| name = Robin Blakelock
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| fullname = Robina Blakelock
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|02|21|df=yes}}
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| FrenchOpenresult = 3R ([1963](/source/1963_French_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_singles), [1965](/source/1965_French_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_singles))
| Wimbledonresult = 3R ([1965](/source/1965_Wimbledon_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_singles))
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| FrenchOpenDoublesresult = 3R ([1965](/source/1965_French_Championships_(tennis)))
| WimbledonDoublesresult = SF ([1968](/source/1968_Wimbledon_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_doubles))
| FrenchOpenMixedresult = 1R ([1963](/source/1963_French_Championships_(tennis)))
| WimbledonMixedresult = {{nowrap|3R ([1961](/source/1961_Wimbledon_Championships_%E2%80%93_Mixed_doubles), [1964](/source/1964_Wimbledon_Championships_%E2%80%93_Mixed_doubles), [1965](/source/1965_Wimbledon_Championships_%E2%80%93_Mixed_doubles), [1967](/source/1967_Wimbledon_Championships_%E2%80%93_Mixed_doubles), [1969](/source/1969_Wimbledon_Championships_%E2%80%93_Mixed_doubles))}}
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'''Robina Blakelock'''<ref>{{cite news |title=May Reach Top Class |work=West Sussex County Times |date=19 September 1958 |page=3}}</ref> (born 21 February 1944) is a British former [tennis](/source/tennis) player. Starting in 1963, she competed under her married name, '''Robin Lloyd''', and was remarried in 1970 to Australian player [Graham Primrose](/source/Graham_Primrose).<ref>{{cite news |title=Primrose named Jax tennis coach |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/116073698/ |work=[The Anniston Star](/source/The_Anniston_Star) |date=31 January 1971}}</ref>

Active in the 1960s, Blakelock grew up in [Sussex](/source/Sussex). She was a British junior champion and as a 19-year old came close to beating [Angela Mortimer](/source/Angela_Mortimer), holding a match point against her in the 1962 Brighton final;<ref>{{cite news |title=Miss Mortimer Survives a Match Point |work=[Birmingham Daily Post](/source/Birmingham_Daily_Post) |date=21 May 1962 |page=20}}</ref> and beat former champion [Darlene Hard](/source/Darlene_Hard) at the [1963 French Championships](/source/1963_French_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_singles) in a long second round match, 13–11, 1–6, 8–6. Her best Wimbledon performances included a singles third round appearance in 1965 and [All England Plate](/source/All_England_Plate) runner-up finish in 1966. She was a women's doubles semi-finalist at the [1968 Wimbledon Championships](/source/1968_Wimbledon_Championships) with [Frances MacLennan](/source/Frances_MacLennan).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Talbot |first1=David |title=Wimbledon Report |work=[Birmingham Daily Post](/source/Birmingham_Daily_Post) |date=6 July 1968}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{WTA|name=Robin Lloyd}}
* {{ITF|name=Robin Lloyd}}
* {{Wimbledon player|name=Robin Lloyd}}

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Category:1944 births
Category:Living people
Category:English female tennis players
Category:British female tennis players
Category:Sportspeople from Horsham
Category:Sportspeople from West Sussex
Category:20th-century English sportswomen

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