{{Short description|New Zealand badminton and tennis player (1936–2001)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}'''Sonia Hilda Cox''' (25 December 1936 – 23 August 2001) was a New Zealand badminton and tennis player.<ref name=":1" />
Cox began playing badminton at age 11. She attended Otago Girls' High School, where she continued to play badminton.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.otagogirls.school.nz/our-history/sports-honours-board|title=Sports Honours Board - History {{!}} Otago Girls' High School - Dunedin, New Zealand|website=www.otagogirls.school.nz|access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref> When she was 14, she started to play in the Otago provincial team and she was placed eighth in the national rankings.<ref name=":0" /> In 1953, at age 16, she was part of the New Zealand badminton team which travelled to Tasmania, for a tour of competitions.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61086382|title=New Zealand Badminton Players Here|date=1953-07-21|work=Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954)|access-date=2018-03-03|pages=14}}</ref>
Cox held the national title in women's badminton six times: 1953 to 1957 and again in 1960.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/badminton/page-4|title=NATIONAL TITLES|last=Hare|first=McLintock, Alexander|last2=Wellington.|first2=Ian Gray Russell, formerly Official Historian, New Zealand Badminton Federation (Inc.)|website=teara.govt.nz|language=en|access-date=2018-03-03|last3=Taonga|first3=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu}}</ref> In 1960, she was part of a New Zealand women's team which competed in the Uber Cup in the United States and progressed to the finals of the tournament.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.noted.co.nz/archive/listener-nz-2005/badminton-bronze/|title=Badminton bronze - The Listener|last=Noted|website=Noted|language=en|access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref>
Cox played tennis competitively as well, including in the national tournaments in 1955 and 1956, and at The Championships, Wimbledon in 1958.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/issue/Mao14TeA/c32.html|title=TE AO HOU The New World [electronic resource]|last=|first=|date=|website=teaohou.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref> At Wimbledon she competed in the ladies' singles, in the ladies' doubles with Ruia Morrison and in the mixed doubles with Peter Nicholls.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/draws/archive/players/f13c50fe-2dac-498e-8dfb-e77166b32427/index.html|title=Archive - Draws Archive : Sonia Cox - 2015 Wimbledon Championships Website - Official Site by IBM|website=www.wimbledon.com|access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cox, Sonia}} Category:New Zealand female badminton players Category:New Zealand female tennis players Category:People educated at Otago Girls' High School Category:1936 births Category:2001 deaths Category:20th-century New Zealand sportswomen