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1957 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Vic Seixas and Shirley Fry were the defending champions, but Fry did not compete. Seixas partnered with Louise Brough, but they lost in the fourth round to Luis Ayala and Thelma Long. Mervyn Rose and Darlene Hard defeated Neale Fraser and Althea Gibson in the final, 6–4, 7–5 to win the mixed doubles tennis title at the 1957 Wimbledon Championships. Seeds Vic Seixas / Shirley Fry ''(fourth round)'' Neale Fraser / Althea Gibson ''(final)'' Jiří Javorský / Věra Pužejová ''(third round)'' Mervyn Rose / Darlene Hard Darlene Ruth Hard (January 6, 1936 – December 2, 2021) was an American professional tennis player, known for her aggressive volleying ability and strong serves. She captured singles titles at the French Championships in 1960 and the U.S. Champ ... (champions) Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Bottom half Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mervyn Rose
Mervyn Gordon Rose AM (23 January 1930 – 23 July 2017) was an Australian male tennis player who won seven Grand Slam titles (singles, doubles and mixed doubles). Rose was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, and turned professional in 1959. He was ranked inside the world's Top 10 throughout much of his tennis career and represented Australia in the Davis Cup from 1951 to 1957. He was ranked World No. 3 in 1958 by Lance Tingay of ''The Daily Telegraph''. Rose won the singles title at the 1954 Australian Championships in Sydney, defeating compatriot Rex Hartwig in the final in four sets. Four years later, in 1958, he became the French singles champion after a straight-sets victory in the final against Luis Ayala. He coached numerous female and male players, including Billie Jean King, Margaret Court, Ernie Ewart, Michael Fancutt, Brett Prentice, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Eleni Daniilidou, Nadia Petrova, Magdalena Grzybowska and Caroline Schnieder. Rose was awarded the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosei Kamo had already left which devalued the men's doubles draw.
In 1954 he reached the final of the was a Japanese tennis player. In 1955 he and Atsushi Miyagi became the first Japanese players to win a Grand Slam tournament. Career In 1955 he won the U.S. National Championships men's doubles title at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston with compatriot Atsushi Miyagi after a five-set victory over Americans Gerald Moss and Bill Quillian. Hurricane Diane roared through New England in August 1955, flooding the tennis courts and delaying the tournament for a week. When the tournament resumed many of the leading players such as Ken Rosewall, Tony Trabert, Lew Hoad and Vic Seixas Elias Victor Seixas Jr. (; pronounced SAY-shus; born August 30, 1923) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Armstrong (tennis)
Sheila Armstrong (1939–1979) was a British tennis player. She became Sheila Brown after marriage. Born in 1939, Armstrong grew up around Manchester, where her father worked as a bank manager. The family lived in the town of Droylsden before they moved to Didsbury to be close to the Northern Lawn Tennis Club. She attended Manchester Girls High School. In 1955 she claimed the junior singles title at Wimbledon. The following year, Armstrong won the junior doubles event with Lorraine Coghlan during the 1956 Australian Championships. Armstrong earned a place on the British Wightman Cup team in 1957, playing doubles with Shirley Broomer. She made the singles fourth round at Wimbledon in 1957 and reached the quarter-finals of the women's doubles in 1960 partnering Deidre Catt Deidre Catt (born 4 July 1940) is a former tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active in the 1960s. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the final of the doubles event at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Bennett (tennis)
Reginald D. Bennett (born 18 August 1937) is a British former tennis player. Bennett, raised in the town of Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex, won the singles title at both the Scottish Championships and South of England Championships and Harpenden Open in 1957. In 1958 he won the Carmarthenshire Championships. In 1960 he was a finalist at the Western States Championships. He played collegiate tennis in the United States for Lamar Tech and was the 1959 NAIA singles champion. One of his career best wins came over American top 10 player Gil Shea in Manchester and he beat Gene Scott William Eugene Scott (August 14, 1929 – February 21, 2005) was an American minister and teacher who served for almost 50 years as a pastor and broadcaster in Los Angeles, California. He pastored the Faith Center and Wescott Christian Center ... in the first round of the 1961 Wimbledon Championships. References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bennett, Reg 1937 births Living people Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Lister
Claude Frederick Owen Lister (13 October 1911 — 19 April 1988) was a British tennis player and coach. An Essex county player, Lister featured regularly at the Wimbledon Championships through the 1930s to 1950s. He twice reached the third round in singles, including in 1949 when he was the last Briton remaining in the draw. Lister, known for his strong serve, won the Surrey singles championships in Surbiton in 1947. In 1958 he began a long stint as non-playing captain of the South Africa Davis Cup team. He was captain of South Africa's only Davis Cup title winning side in 1974, secured after India refused to compete in the final due to the apartheid policy. This made South Africa the first Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ... champions outside the four gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Huber (tennis)
Alfred "Freddie" Huber (15 May 1930 – 25 May 1972) was an Austrian tennis and ice hockey player. He began his tennis career in 1946. He won the British Covered Court Championships in 1956. He competed at Wimbledon in 1949–57, but never advanced through the third round. He competed in the hockey tournament at the 1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz .... References External links * 1930 births 1972 deaths Austrian ice hockey goaltenders Austrian male tennis players Ice hockey players at the 1948 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Austria Sportspeople from Klagenfurt Tennis players from Vienna {{Austria-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Koortzen
Valerie Koortzen (born 15 February 1937) is a South African former professional tennis player. Koortzen, active on tour in the 1950s and 1960s, twice made it to the singles third round of the Wimbledon Championships. She was a women's doubles quarter-finalist at both Wimbledon and the French Championships. Her career singles titles included Düsseldorf in 1957, beating Pat Ward Patrick or Pat Ward may refer to: *Patrick Ward (actor) (1950–2019), Australian actor *Patrick Ward (photographer) (born 1937), British photographer *Pat Ward (footballer) (1926–2003), Scottish footballer *Pat Ward (rugby union) (fl. from 1928) ... in the final. From 1956 to 1971 she was married to tennis player Gordon Forbes. References External links * 1937 births Living people South African female tennis players 20th-century South African women {{SouthAfrica-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Forbes
Gordon Forbes (21 February 1934 – 9 December 2020) was a South African professional tennis player and author. Forbes won the singles title of the South African Championships in 1959 and 1961 and was runner-up in 1955, 1962, 1963 and 1964. He won the Tuscaloosa Grass Court Invitational in 1962, defeating Rod Laver in the final. During the 1950s and 1960s, he was the doubles partner of countryman Abe Segal. They were considered one of the best doubles teams in the world. Career Forbes learnt to play tennis in his childhood on the family farm. At age 12, he played and won his first junior tournament in East London. Forbes won the singles title of the South African Championships in 1959 and 1961 and was runner-up in 1955, 1962, 1963 and 1964. He won the Tuscaloosa Grass Court Invitational in 1962, defeating reigning U.S. No. 1 Whitney Reed in a marathon semifinal, and World No. 1 Rod Laver in a close four set final. He played for the South African Davis Cup team in 14 ties ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence De La Courtie-Billat
Florence de la Courtie-Billat (born 13 November 1935) is a French former tennis player. Active on tour in the 1950s and 1960s, de la Courtie reached the top of the French rankings during her career. She made the singles round of 16 at the 1961 Wimbledon Championships and was a women's doubles quarter-finalist at the 1962 French Championships (with Françoise Dürr Françoise Dürr (born 25 December 1942; sometimes referred to by English writers as Frankie Durr) is a retired French tennis player. She won 50 singles titles and over 60 doubles titles. According to Lance Tingay, Bud Collins, and the Women ...). References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:de la Courtie-Billat, Florence 1935 births Living people French female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Truman
Christine Clara Truman Janes (born 16 January 1941) is a former tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. She won a singles Grand Slam title at the French Open, French Championships in 1959 and was a finalist at Wimbledon championships, Wimbledon and the US Open (tennis), U.S. Championships. She helped Great Britain win the Wightman Cup in 1958, 1960 and 1968. Career Christine Truman was a member of a tight-knit, supportive tennis-playing family. She often entered the Wimbledon mixed doubles with her brother Humphrey Truman, Humphrey.Tennis Today Truman, Christine Published by Arthur Barker (1961) She formed a successful doubles partnership with her younger sister Nell Truman. She was the British junior champion in 1956 and 1957. Truman made her debut at The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon in 1957 at age 16, beating the third seed and then French Open champion Shirley Bloomer, American semifinalist Betty Rosenquest, and eventual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Truman
Humphrey Truman (born 5 August 1935) is a British former tennis player. Raised in Essex, Truman is the elder brother of tennis players Christine Truman and Nell Truman. During the 1950s and 1960s he competed at Wimbledon, mostly as a doubles player. He made the mixed doubles quarter-finals of the 1959 Wimbledon Championships with sister Christine and featured in the singles main draw twice. Truman, who was a pilot in the RAF, also played the sport of squash and appeared at the British Open The Open Championship, often referred to as The Open or the British Open, is the oldest golf tournament in the world, and one of the most prestigious. Founded in 1860, it was originally held annually at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland. Later th .... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Truman, Humphrey 1935 births Living people British male tennis players English male tennis players Tennis people from Essex English squash players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sima Nikolic
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