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1970 Australian Open – Men's Singles
Arthur Ashe defeated Dick Crealy in the final, 6–4, 9–7, 6–2 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 1970 Australian Open. Rod Laver was the defending champion, but chose not to compete this year. The first round was best-of-three sets, and the rest of the tournament was best-of-five. Seeds All seeds receive a bye into the second round. # Tony Roche ''(quarterfinals)'' # John Newcombe ''(quarterfinals)'' # Tom Okker ''(quarterfinals)'' # Arthur Ashe (champion) # Stan Smith ''(third round)'' # Dennis Ralston ''(semifinals)'' # Nikola Pilić ''(third round)'' # Roger Taylor ''(semifinals)'' # Robert Lutz ''(third round)'' # Ray Ruffels ''(quarterfinals)'' # Allan Stone ''(third round)'' # Dick Crealy ''(final)'' # William Bowrey ''(third round)'' # John Alexander ''(third round)'' # Gerald Battrick ''(third round)'' # Bob Carmichael ''(second round)'' Draw Final eight Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 External links Association of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was an American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles. He started to play tennis at six years old. He was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team, and the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open. He retired in 1980. He was ranked world No. 1 by Rex Bellamy, Bud Collins, Judith Elian, Lance Tingay, ''World Tennis'' and ''Tennis Magazine'' (U.S.) in 1975. That year, Ashe was awarded the 'Martini and Rossi' Award, voted for by a panel of journalists, and the ATP Player of the Year award. In the ATP computer rankings, he peaked at No. 2 in May 1976. Ashe is believed to have acquired HIV from a blood transfusion he received during heart bypass surgery in 1983. He publicly announced his illness in April 1992, and began working to educate others about HIV and AIDS. He founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Battrick
Gerald Battrick (27 May 1947 – 26 November 1998) was a Welsh tennis player who reached as high as No. 3 in Britain (and world No. 53), winning at least 6 titles. Personal life Gerald Battrick was born on 27 May 1947 in Bridgend, Glamorgan, where his father was the Medical Officer. Tennis career Juniors Battrick won the junior titles of Great Britain, Belgium and France and represented Britain in the Davis Cup. In 1965 he won the French Open Boys' Singles. Pro tour In 1971 he won the singles title at the Dutch Open in Hilversum, defeating Australian Ross Case in the final in three straight sets, and the British Hard Court Championships in Bournemouth where he won the final against Željko Franulović in four sets. In doubles, Battrick reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 1968 and 1970 and at Wimbledon in 1975. He played for the Great Britain Davis Cup team in 1970 and 1971 compiling a record of two wins and three losses. In 1972 Battrick joined Lamar Hunt's World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brown (tennis)
John Brown (born 12 July 1940) is an Australian sports promoter and former professional tennis player. As a tennis player, Brown competed on the international tour during the late 1960s and locally in the early 1970s. He made the singles third round of the 1968 US Open and was a doubles quarter-finalist at the 1969 Australian Open. In the 1970s he served as tournament director of the Australian Open. Later based in Queensland, Brown held the original license for the Brisbane Bears VFL club and was the inaugural executive chairman of the Australian Baseball League The Australian Baseball League (ABL) is a professional baseball league in Australia. The league is governed by the Australian Baseball Federation (ABF). It uses the same name as a now-defunct competition held during the 1990s, and though it .... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, John 1940 births Living people Australian male tennis players Sports promoters Tournament directors Ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Gardiner
Alvin Gardiner (born 11 February 1951) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Career Gardiner was a quarter-finalist in the men's doubles at the 1968 Australian Open with Ross Case. He continued to compete in every Australian Open until 1973, when he began to suffer a series of injuries and illnesses. It started with a season ending collarbone injury, a break that required a bone graft operation in London. When he returned to action he caught glandular fever, in August 1974 he won the Exmouth Open, and then midway through the season he pulled a back muscle. He won the Exmouth Open singles title against Graeme Thomson in 1974 He made a comeback in 1975 and won the Irish Open that year, over Rhodesian player Tony Fawcett. During his career he also featured in the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open tournaments. He was John McEnroe's first ever opponent in a Grand Slam singles main draw. They met in the first round of the 1977 French Open and the American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Keldie
Ray Keldie (born 17 January 1946) is a former tennis player Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cove ... from Australia. He competed in the Australian Open 8 times, the French Open 4 times, Italian Open 4 times, Wimbledon 9 times, US Open 7 times, Queens Club 4 times from 1965 to 1975. at australianopen.com Grand Slam finals Doubles: (1 runner-up) References 1946 birt ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Stuart (tennis)
Ken Stuart is an American former professional tennis player. Stuart played collegiate tennis for Long Beach State and won the NCAA College Division doubles championship as a senior in 1966 (with Fred Suessmann). He competed briefly on the professional tour and made the singles second round at the 1970 Australian Open. During the 1970s he was married to tennis player Betty Ann Grubb Stuart Betty Ann Grubb Stuart (born February 26, 1950) is a retired American professional tennis player. She had her most significant success in doubles, including reaching the final of the 1977 US Open (tennis), 1977 US Open with Renée Richards as he .... A Southern California Tennis Hall of Fame member, Stuart is the designer and owner of the Palisades Tennis Club. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stuart, Ken Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male tennis players Tennis people from California Long Beach State Beach men's tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mal Anderson
Malcolm James Anderson (born 3 March 1935) is a former tennis player from Australia who was active from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. He won the singles title at the 1957 U.S. National Championships and achieved his highest amateur ranking of No. 2 in 1957. He became a professional after the 1958 season and won the Wembley World Professional Tennis Championships in the 1959 season. He was runner-up at the 1972 Australian Open championships. Background A right-hander, Anderson started playing tennis when he was eight and became serious about the sport at 16. Anderson is the brother-in-law of fellow Australian tennis star Roy Emerson. Playing career Amateur Anderson's two best seasons were 1957 and 1958 when, as an amateur, he twice achieved a ranking of world No. 2."Former Champ Martina Honoured", ''New Straits Times'', 27 January 2000. In 1957, Anderson won the US Championships as an unseeded player. Earlier that year, he had reached the semifinals of the Australian C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Pollard
Geoffrey Neil Pollard, AM (born 18 January 1944) is an Australian sports administrator and former professional tennis player. He was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in the 1989 Australia Day Honours list. A left-handed player from Sydney, Pollard was active as a player in the 1960s and 1970s. He lost to John Newcombe in the junior singles final of the 1961 Australian Championships and earned selection on Australia's Junior Davis Cup team. In 1962 he was runner-up to Tony Roche in the 18s and under Orange Bowl tournament. Pollard, a University of Sydney science graduate, partnered with Kaye Dening to win a mixed doubles gold medal at the 1967 Summer Universiade in Tokyo. He won through to the singles third round of the 1968 Australian Championships, where he was eliminated by the fifth-seed Barry Phillips-Moore. During the 1980s, Pollard served as President of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association and was on the Board of Directors for the Australian Institute of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Hammond (tennis)
Anthony Hammond (born 16 March 1950) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Hammond, a native of Perth, was a state Linton Cup representative and made the quarter-finals of the Western Australian Open in 1969. He featured in the singles main draw at six editions of the Australian Open without going past the first round. After leaving the tour he was head tennis pro at the Middletown Tennis Club in Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta .... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hammond, Anthony 1950 births Living people Australian male tennis players Tennis players from Perth, Western Australia Sportsmen from Western Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wilson (tennis)
Robert Keith Wilson (22 November 1935 – 21 September 2020) was an English tennis player. Wilson reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon four times, Forest Hills twice, and Roland Garros once during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He was also a prominent Great Britain Davis Cup team member. Grand Slam tournaments Wilson was a champion junior player, winning the 1951 British Junior Championship at age 15. He was runner-up the following two years as well as doubles champion partnering Billy Knight. While still a junior Wilson won a senior level singles match at Wimbledon in 1952, then he lost to eventual runner-up Jaroslav Drobný in the second round; the following year, he reached the third round, where he lost to eventual quarterfinalist Sven Davidson in five sets. Wilson first reached a major quarterfinal in 1958, at Wimbledon. Unseeded, he reached the round without dropping a set, setting up a meeting against No. 1 seed Ashley Cooper. The champion Australian took the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathias Werren
Mathias, a given name and a surname which is a variant of Matthew (name), may refer to: Places * Mathias, West Virginia * Mathias Township, Michigan People with the given name or surname ''Mathias'' In music * Mathias Eick, Norwegian Jazz Musician * Mathias Färm Mathias Färm (born September 9, 1974, in Örebro, Sweden) is a guitar player, best known as a member of the Swedish punk rock band Millencolin. He is also the frontman of a punk band named Franky Lee, a side-project of Millencolin. He started ..., the guitarist of Millencolin * Mathias Lillmåns, Finnish lead singer of folk/black metal band Finntroll * William Mathias, Welsh composer * Mathias Nygård a.k.a. Warlord, Finnish folk metal singer In sports * Mathias Bourgue, French tennis player * Mathias Fischer, German basketball coach * Mathias Jørgensen, nicknamed ''Zanka'', Danish football player * Mathias Kiwanuka, American football player * Mathias Olsson (born 1973), Swedish former professional ice hockey defe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenny Schloss
Lenny or Lennie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Lenny (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Lennie (surname), a list of people * Lenny (singer) (born 1993), Czech songwriter Arts and entertainment Music * ''Lenny'' (album), by Lenny Kravitz * "Lenny" (instrumental), by Stevie Ray Vaughan * "Lenny" (Buggles song), a 1982 song by The Buggles * "Lenny" (Supergrass song), a 1995 song by Supergrass * Lenny, a guitar owned by Stevie Ray Vaughan * Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, pianist and composer Other arts and entertainment * Lenny (bot), an anti-telemarketing chatbot * ''Lenny'' (film), a 1974 biography of Lenny Bruce * "Lenny" (short story), a 1958 short story by author Isaac Asimov * ''Lenny'' (TV series), a 1990–1991 situation comedy starring Lenny Clarke * Lenny face (Internet emoticon), used to express sexual innuendo, or mischief Other uses * Hurricane Lenny, a 1999 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean * Lenny's Sub Shop, a san ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
