Joan Marcia Bathurst (née Hartigan; 6 June 1912 – 31 August 2000) was an Australian Champion tennis player who was active from the early 1930s until the late 1940s.

[6] In March that year she won the singles title at the New South Wales Championships after a straight-sets victory in the final against Molesworth.

[1] Hartigan was posthumously inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame in January 2022 at a ceremony at the Rod Laver Arena.

[4] In 1946, she announced her engagement to Hugh Moxon Bathurst of Melbourne who was then private secretary to Senator James Fraser, Chifley's Health minister.

[13] They married at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney on Saturday, 12 April 1947, before flying to Adelaide then Perth to board the RMS Orion[14] at Fremantle for England where they planned to live for a few years while she resumed her tennis career at Wimbledon.