May Hardcastle

Margaret May Hardcastle (6 May 1913 – 22 August 2002) was an Australian tennis player of the 1930s and 1940s.

Biography Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Hardcastle was educated at Brisbane Girls Grammar School and later the Presbyterian Girls' College in Warwick.

In the early 1940s, during the Second World War, Hardcastle enlisted to the Australian Army Medical Women's Service. She later joined efforts at Morotai before transferring back to Australia upon the end of the war. She was discharged in April 1946. Her last recorded tennis match was in 1947. Hardcastle died in 2002 at the age of 89.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (1 runner-up) ResultYearChampionship SurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 1939 Australian Championships Grass Emily Hood Westacott Thelma Coyne Nancye Wynne 5–7, 4–6