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1965 Australian Championships – Men's Singles
First-seeded Roy Emerson defeated Fred Stolle 7–9, 2–6, 6–4, 7–5, 6–1 in the final to win the men's singles tennis title at the 1965 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)'' # Fred Stolle ''(finalist)'' # John Newcombe ''(semifinals)'' # Tony Roche ''(semifinals)'' # Pierre Darmon ''(quarterfinals)'' # Pierre Barthès ''(third round)'' # Lew Gerrard ''(third round)'' # Tom Okker ''(second round)'' # Owen Davidson ''(quarterfinals)'' # Bill Bowrey ''(quarterfinals)'' # Barry Phillips-Moore ''(third round)'' # Warren Jacques ''(first round)'' # Graham Stilwell ''(second round)'' # Osamu Ishiguro ''(third round)'' # François Jauffret ''(third round)'' # Jan Hajer ''(first round)'' Draw Key * Q = Qualifier * WC = Wild card * LL = Lucky loser * r = Retired Finals Earlier rounds Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qualifier (tennis)
This page is a glossary of tennis terminology. A * Ace: Serve where the tennis ball lands inside the '' service box'' and is not touched by the receiver; thus, a shot that is both a serve and a winner is an ace. Aces are usually powerful and generally land on or near one of the corners at the back of the service box. Initially, the term was used to indicate the scoring of a point. * Action: Synonym of '' spin''. * Ad court: Left side of the court of each player, so called because the ''ad'' (''advantage'') point immediately following a deuce is always served to this side of the court. * Ad in: '' Advantage'' to the ''server''. * Ad out: '' Advantage'' to the '' receiver''. * Ad: Used by the chair umpire to announce the score when a player has the '' advantage'', meaning they won the point immediately after a ''deuce''. See scoring in tennis. * Advantage set: Set won by a player or team having won at least six games with a two-game advantage over the opponent (as opposed to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Keller (tennis)
Peter Keller (born 19 October 1944 in Clunes, Victoria) is a former Australian professional tennis player. He reached the first with J. Thomson and second round with John Newcombe at the 1962 Australian Championships in the men's singles and again in 1965 with Juan Gisbert Sr. He was ranked as Australian number two in the 1970s. He became active between early to late 1960s. Keller was still competing at age 73, finishing second to Camina Borda in the Super-Senior World Individual Championships 70s in 2017 despite having undergone quintuple bypass heart surgery earlier that year. Keller is in the Ballarat Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands (Victoria), Central Highlands of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, Ballarat had a population of 116,201, making it the third largest city in Victoria. Estimated resid ... Sports Hall of Fame. References External links * 1944 births Living people Australian male tennis players Spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Bovett
Christopher Bovett (born 25 December 1945) is a British-American former professional tennis player. Born in Worcestershire, Bovett was educated at Harrow High School. In the mid-1960s, after being unable to secure special coaching from the LTA, he emigrated to Australia to work as a freelance photographer. He secured a scholarship in 1966 to Pan American College (Texas), transferring from there to the University of Houston The University of Houston (UH) is a Public university, public research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1927, UH is a member of the University of Houston System and the List of universities in Texas by enrollment, university in Texas ..., where he met his wife Karen. He featured in main draws at the Australian and US national championships while based in both countries. A longtime resident of the Houston area, he was a 2014 inductee into the Texas Tennis Hall of Fame. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bovett, Chris 1945 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Reid
Wayne Vivian Reid OBE (12 January 1938 – 30 June 2021) was a tennis player and sports administrator who was president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia (LTAA), the Melbourne Football Club, the Asian Tennis Circuit, the Confederation of Australian Sport, the International Assembly of National Confederations of Sports and was a founding director of the Australian Institute of Sport. Early life Reid was born in Melbourne, Victoria, on 12 January 1938."Wayne V. Reid" Tennis Archives. Retrieved 9 August 2010. Reid was educated at Wesley College in Melbourne. While at Wesley, Reid won the Victorian schoolboys singles and doubles tennis championships. |
Anthony Richards (tennis)
Anthony Richards may refer to: * Tony Richards (footballer, born 1934) (1934–2010), English footballer * Anthony Charles Richards Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Charles Richards, CVO (born 1953) is a British Army officer, who has served as Equerry to HM The Queen and Deputy Master of the Household of the Royal Household since 1999. Career Richards was educated at Marlborou ... (born 1953), British Army officer * Anthony Richards (Shortland Street) * Anthony D. Richards, English footballer See also * Tony Richards (other) {{hndis, Richards, Anthony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Sherriff
Ross or ROSS may refer to: People * Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan * Ross (name), including a list of people with the surname or given name Ross, as well as the meaning * Earl of Ross, a peerage of Scotland Places * RoSS, the Republic of South Sudan Antarctica * Ross Sea * Ross Ice Shelf * Ross Dependency Australia * Ross, Tasmania Chile * Ross Casino, a former casino in Pichilemu, Chile; now the Agustín Ross Cultural Centre Ireland *"Ross", a common nickname for County Roscommon * Ross, County Mayo, a townland in Killursa civil parish, barony of Clare, County Mayo, bordering Moyne Townland * Ross, County Westmeath, a townland in Noughaval civil parish, barony of Kilkenny West, County Westmeath * Ross, County Wexford * The Diocese of Ross in West Cork. The Roman Catholic diocese merged with Cork in 1958 to become the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross, while the Church of Ireland diocese is now part of the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. This area, centered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Matheson (tennis)
William Henry Matheson (12 June 1891 – 4 November 1956) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda, Carlton Carlton may refer to: People * Carlton (name), a list of those with the given name or surname * Carlton (singer), English soul singer Carlton McCarthy * Carlton, a pen name used by Joseph Caldwell (1773–1835), American educator, Presbyterian ... and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Notes External links *Harry Matheson's profileat Blueseum 1891 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) St Kilda Football Club players Carlton Football Club players Collingwood Football Club players 1956 deaths {{AFL-bio-1891-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Wooldridge
Keith Wooldridge (born 24 October 1943) is a former professional tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active in the 1960s. He was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England. His best singles result at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the third round at Wimbledon in 1964 and 1966. He also reached the third round at the Australian Championships in 1963, but this was due to two walkovers in the first rounds. Wooldridge won the Surrey Championships on grass in 1966 defeating Peter Curtis in the final and the same tournament again in 1968 defeating Ken Fletcher in the final. After his active playing career, he was employed by the LTA as a development coach for female players from 1995 until his retirement in 2005. Personal life He married Scottish tennis player Winnie Shaw Winifred Mason Shaw (later Mrs. Wooldridge) (18 January 1947 – 30 March 1992) was a professional tennis player from Scotland whose career ran from the mid-1960s until the early 70s. In 2002, she posthu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Barclay
Ian Barclay was (born on 2 December 1938) is a Melbourne-based tennis coach. Barclay was born in Melbourne, Australia. He coached a number of Victorian and Australian Junior Champions, singles and doubles, most notably Pat Cash. He went on to be the National Junior Coach for the Lawn Tennis Association, where he remained for nine years before returning to Australia. As of 2010 he was still coaching and involved with junior development programs with Tennis Australia Tennis Australia Limited is the governing body for Tennis in Australia. It is owned by Australian states and territories. The association organises national and international Tennis tournaments including the Australian Open, the Australian Open .... Coaching Highlights References {{DEFAULTSORT:Barclay, Ian 1938 births Living people Australian tennis coaches Tennis players from Melbourne Australian male tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Gisbert
Juan Gisbert Sr. (born 5 April 1942) is a retired amateur and professional tennis player from the 1960s and 1970s. He won one ATP singles title (plus at least three others before the Open era) and reached the finals at the Australian Championships in 1968 and Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ... in 1971. Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (0–1) Grand Slam tournament performance timeline Singles Open era career finals Singles (1 title, 6 runner-ups) Doubles (21 titles, 17 runner-ups) External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gisbert, Juan 1942 births Living people Tennis players from Catalonia Spanish male tennis players Tennis players from Barcelona Tennis players at the 1968 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in tennis Mediterranean G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
