== Biografi ==
[[Fil:Hillyard vs sterry at eastbourne.jpg|thumb|260px|Charlotte Cooper Sterry mod [[Blanche Bingley Hillyard]] i [[Eastbourne]].]]
Charlotte Cooper blev [[fødsel|født]] den [[22. september]] [[1870]] på Waldham Lodge i [[Ealing]], [[Middlesex]], [[England]]. Hun var [[møller]]en Henry Cooper og hans [[hustru|kone]] Teresa Georgina Millers yngste [[datter]].<ref name=oxford>{{cite web|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – Sterry [née Cooper], Charlotte Reinagle|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/36284|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> Hun lærte at spille [[tennis]] i Ealing Lawn Tennis Club, hvor hun først blev trænet af H. Lawrence og senere af Charles Martin og [[Harold Mahony]].<ref>I [[Dorothy Chambers]]' bog fra [[1910]] med titlen ''Lawn Tennis for Ladies'' beskriver Cooper Sterry, da hun vandt sit første mesterskab i Ealing Lawn Tennis Club: "Winning my first championship of the Ealing Lawn Tennis Club at the age of 14 was a very important moment in my life. How well I remember, bedecked by my proud mother in my best clothes, running off to the Club on the Saturday afternoon to play in the final without a vestige of nerve (would that I had none now!), and winning—that was the first really important match of my life."</ref> Hun vandt sin første seniortitel i [[1893]] i [[Ilkley]].
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