Nora Somoza
Argentine tennis player
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Biography
Somoza, nicknamed "Norita", grew up in Coronel Suárez, Buenos Aires Province.[1]
An Argentine number one, Somoza was active on tour in the 1950s and 1960s. She was a three-time winner of the Río de la Plata tournament and represented her country at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago.[2][3]
In 1961 she reached the singles third rounds of both the French Championships and Wimbledon. She also teamed up with Reino Nyyssönen at Wimbledon to make the mixed doubles quarter-finals.[4]
Somoza appeared for the Argentina Federation Cup team in a 1965 tie against New Zealand in Melbourne.[5]