That would be Margaret Court, but seven of those wins were before 1969, and the advent of professional tennis players.
Kim Clisters
This depends on whether searching for single or double players. The top single female tennis player of 2012 is Victoria Azerenka and for doubles the top player is Roberta Vinci.
Pauline Spencer-Parsons in 1927 ?
Venus Williams is an American tennis player
No, tennis players have to qualify themselves to play the Australian Open.
In 2010 Serena Williams won the Australian Open and Wimbledon
Rod Laver
Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award was created in 1993.
Vitas Gerulaitis
AustralianHewitt is an Australian
An Australian born and bred tennis player. She holds the record for most single grand-slams titles (24) and overall (62) and was once considered to be the best tennis player of all time. To commemorate her success and loyalty to tennis Australian constructed the Magaret Court Arena of the Australian open. Court Arena is currently the no.3 stadium of the Aussie Open behind only Rod Laver Arena and Vodafone.
the only active, well-known left-handed Australian tennis player is Chris Guccione.