Nora Somoza

Nora Bonifacino de Somoza was an Argentine tennis player.

Biography

Somoza, nicknamed "Norita", grew up in Coronel Suárez, Buenos Aires Province.
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.
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.
Somoza appeared for the Argentina Federation Cup team in a 1965 tie against New Zealand in Melbourne.