{{Short description|Australian tennis player (1939–2022)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Robin Lesh | image = | fullname = | country_represented = {{AUS}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1939|08|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|09|05|1939|08|22|df=yes}} | death_place = | height = | plays = Right-handed | careerprizemoney = | singlesrecord = | singlestitles = | highestsinglesranking = | AustralianOpenresult = 2R (1961) | FrenchOpenresult = 3R (1965) | Wimbledonresult = 4R (1965) | doublesrecord = | doublestitles = | highestdoublesranking = | AustralianOpenDoublesresult = QF (1959) | FrenchOpenDoublesresult = 2R (1965) | WimbledonDoublesresult = QF (1963, 1965) | AustralianOpenMixedresult = QF (1959) | FrenchOpenMixedresult = 2R (1964, 1965) | WimbledonMixedresult = 4R (1965) }} '''Robin Lesh''' (22 August 1939 – 5 September 2022)<ref>{{cite news |title=Robin Bedggood |url=https://tributes.theage.com.au/obituaries/456774/robin-bedggood?r=https://tributes.theage.com.au/obituaries/theage-au/ |work=The Age |date=7 September 2022}}</ref> was an Australian tennis player.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104249403 |title='Unknown' In Upset Win |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=10 April 1963 |page=42 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Lesh, a Melbourne based player, made her first European tour in 1963 and had a win over a young Virginia Wade en route to the final of the Cumberland tournament.<ref>{{cite news |title=Virginia again |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000483/19630419/292/0014 |work=Kent & Sussex Courier |date=19 April 1963}}</ref> A two-time Wimbledon doubles quarter-finalist, she also made the fourth round of the singles in 1965, then lost to Billie Jean Moffitt.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ralston Rallies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/382107147 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=29 June 1965}}</ref> Her tournament wins include the singles title at Aix-en-Provence in 1965.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dans le monde du tennis |url=https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3171338 |work=Le Soleil |date=26 April 1965 |language=French}}</ref> She married Geelong Grammar teacher John Bedggood.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bedggood John Andrew |url=https://www.mytributes.com.au/notice/death-notices/bedggood-john-andrew/5367064/ |work=Geelong Advertiser |publisher=mytributes.com.au |date=28 March 2020}}</ref>
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