1963 Australian Championships – Men's Singles
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1963 Australian Championships – Men's Singles
First-seeded Roy Emerson defeated Ken Fletcher 6–3, 6–3, 6–1 in the final to win the men's singles tennis title at the 1963 Australian Championships. Seeds The seeded players are listed below. Roy Emerson is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. # Roy Emerson ''(champion)'' # Ken Fletcher ''(finalist)'' # Bob Hewitt ''(semifinals)'' # Fred Stolle ''(semifinals)'' # Martin Mulligan ''(third round)'' # John Newcombe ''(quarterfinals)'' # John Fraser ''(quarterfinals)'' # Bob Howe ''(quarterfinals)'' Draw Key * Q = Qualifier * WC = Wild card * LL = Lucky loser * r = Retired Finals Earlier rounds Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 External links 1963 Australian Championships on ITFtennis.com the source for this draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Australian Championships - Men's Singles,1963 1963 in tennis 1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation ...
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Roy Emerson
Roy Stanley Emerson (born 3 November 1936) is an Australian former tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand Slam doubles titles, for a total of 28 Grand Slam titles. He is the only male player to have completed a career Grand Slam (winning titles at all four Grand Slam events) in both singles and doubles, and the first of four male players to complete a double career Grand Slam in singles (later followed by Rod Laver, Novak Djokovic, and Rafael Nadal). His 28 major titles are the all-time record for a male player. He was ranked world No. 1 amateur in 1961 by Ned Potter, 1964 by Potter, Lance Tingay and an Ulrich Kaiser panel of 14 experts and 1965 by Tingay, Joseph McCauley, Sport za Rubezhom and an Ulrich Kaiser panel of 16 experts. Emerson was the first male player to win 12 singles majors. He held that record for 30 years until it was passed by Pete Sampras in 2000. He also held the record of six Australian Open men's singles titles until 2019 whe ...
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Eric Drossart
Eric Claude Drossart (born 21 February 1942) is a former tennis player from Belgium. Tennis career Drossart was a regular member of the Belgium Davis Cup team from 1960 until 1972. He made his debut in 1960 against Great Britain during the Europe Zone quarterfinals tie. During his Davis Cup career, he played 6 singles and 4 doubles matches without scoring any victories. During his Davis Cup career, he won 8 of the 33 singles matches and 7 of the 16 doubles matches that he played. Later career After his playing career, Drossart joined the International Management Group IMG, originally known as the International Management Group, is a global sports, events and talent management company headquartered in New York City. It has been owned by Endeavor since 2013. Trans World International (TWI) is an event and pro ... in 1974, becoming Vice-President and Director of Marketing and Sales in Europe. He was the tournament director of the Belgian Tennis Open from 1978 until 1981 and ...
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Allan Stone
Allan Stone (born 14 October 1945) is a former tennis player from Australia. He played amateur and professional tennis in the 1960s and 1970s. He was ranked as high as world No. 36 in singles and world No. 12 in doubles on the ATP rankings. Stone found the majority of his success on the doubles court. He won 15 doubles titles during his career, including the Australian Open in 1977 and the Australian Championships (the predecessor to the Australian Open) in 1968. He made the doubles final at Wimbledon in 1975 alongside Colin Dowdeswell and won the US National Doubles Championship in 1969 with Dick Crealy. In singles, he won three titles and reached four finals, including Cincinnati. In 1972 he made the semifinal of the Australian Open singles, where he was defeated by that year's champion, Ken Rosewall. Stone was selected to play Davis Cup for Australia and participated in five Davis Cup ties. His Davis Cup win-loss record is 6-0. Born in Launceston, Tasmania, Stone moved t ...
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Jim Moore (tennis)
Jim Moore (born 20 May 1938) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Moore, a Queenslander, made his main draw debut at the Australian Championships in 1959 and made several appearances at the French Championships and Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * ... from the late 1960s. In addition to tennis he also competed in international tournaments as a squash player. He married tennis player Fay Toyne. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Jim 1938 births Living people Australian male tennis players Tennis players from Queensland Sportsmen from Queensland ...
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Stanley Matthews (tennis)
Stanley John Matthews (born 20 November 1945) is an English former professional tennis player. He became Wimbledon Boys' Champion in 1962 and reached the second round of the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. He is the son of former professional footballer Sir Stanley Matthews. Football career Matthews' first foray in sport was via football, and, like his father, he played on the wing. "But I stopped playing soccer, as we call it in America, when I was 12," he explained in 2007. "I was fairly good, but whoever I played, they kicked the shit out of me. I came with a name, and the mentality was, 'We're going to get Stanley Matthews' son.' " Tennis career In 1958, Matthews' father arranged for him to attend the Lawn Tennis Association in London. He lived with the family of Charlie Chester, a friend of his father, in North Finchley. In the morning he would work with a private tutor; in the afternoon he would practise at Queen's Club. Matthews was British Junior Champion bet ...
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Peter McPherson (tennis)
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Brian Tobin (tennis)
Brian Reginald Tobin (5 December 1930 – 22 April 2024) was an Australian tennis player and executive who was the president of the International Tennis Federation from 1991 to 1999. He was awarded the Order of Australia in 1986 and the Olympic Order in 1999. Apart from awards, he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame in 2004. Early life and education Tobin was born on 5 December 1930 in Perth, Western Australia. As a teenager, Tobin played Australian rules football before switching to tennis. He attended Christian Brothers' College, Perth for his post-secondary education. Career As a tennis player, Tobin appeared at his first Grand Slam tournament during the 1949 Australian Championships. During the 1950s and 1960s, he played in multiple Australian Championships in singles and doubles events. Outside of Australia, Tobin participated at the 1964 French Championships where he reached the first round in doubles. ...
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Harald Elschenbroich
Harald Elschenbroich (born 19 June 1941) is a former international tennis player from West Germany. He competed in the Davis Cup from 1965 to 1975,Harald Elschenbroich
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Peter Harris (tennis)
Pete or Peter Harris may refer to: Sportspeople *Pete Harris (American football) (1957–2006), American football player *Peter Harris (boxer) (born 1962), Welsh boxer *Peter Harris (surfer) (born 1958), Australian surfer *Peter Harris (footballer) (1925–2003), English association football (soccer) player Businessmen * Peter L. Harris (born 1943), American businessman * Peter R. Harris, former CEO of Compass Group *Peter Harris (entrepreneur) (born 1934), English businessman Others *Peter Harris (buccaneer) (died 1680), 17th-century pirate *Peter Harris (director) (1933–2021), British television director *Peter Harris (producer) (born 1961), electronic dance music record producer and disc jockey *Peter Harris (public servant), Australian government official *Peter Charles Harris Major General Peter Charles Harris (November 10, 1865 – March 18, 1951) was an officer in the United States Army who served as Adjutant General of the U.S. Army from 1918 to 1922. Early life ...
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John Cottrill
John Arthur Cottrill (born 18 November 1945) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Cottrill, a New South Wales junior hard court champion from Sydney, was a member of Australia's Davis Cup squad for a 1965 tie against Spain. He took Roy Emerson to five sets in the semi-finals of the 1966 Australian Hard Court Championships. In 1967, his final year on tour, he was married to tennis player Joan Gibson and partnered with her to make the mixed doubles quarter-finals at Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * .... They had a son born in 1969. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cottrill, John 1945 births Living people Australian male tennis players Tennis players from Sydney Sportsmen from New South Wales ...
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Robert Brien
Robert C. Brien (born 26 October 1944 in Sydney) was a tennis player in the 1960s and 1970s. Tennis career In 1963 Brien, with Greg Cotterill, won the Australian Championships Boys Doubles Championship. As a 19-year-old who had been in the United States for four months, Brien reached the final at the Cincinnati Masters, Cincinnati tournament in 1964 before losing to Herb Fitzgibbon. According to an article in the 5 July 1964, edition of ''The Cincinnati Enquirer'', Brien had defeated Neale Fraser, Owen Davidson, Tony Roche and William "Billy" Lenoir, Bill Lenoir. Brien played collegiate tennis at Mississippi State University. He was an All-American in 1966 and 1967. Brien finished his collegiate tennis career with a 67–1 career winning record. In 1981 Brien was inducted into the Mississippi State University Sports Hall of Fame. Brien was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1985. References

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