Gardener was married, and became the father of Nicola Smith (born 1949), the leading British woman player of the 1975–1995 period.
She was only sixteen when she played in her first international tournament, at Deauville, winning the teams event in a team which included her father, Nico Gardener, and the young Paul Chemla.
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The British team was Tony Priday, Claude Rodrigue, Nicola Gardener (as she then was) and Pat Davies.
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