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1973 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Bob Hewitt and Frew McMillan did not defend their title as they participated in the Wimbledon boycott of 1973. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Năstase defeated John Cooper and Neale Fraser in the final, 3–6, 6–3, 6–4, 8–9(3–7), 6–1 to win the gentlemen's doubles title at the 1973 Wimbledon Championships. Seeds Jimmy Connors / Ilie Năstase (champions) John Cooper / Neale Fraser ''(final)'' n/a Sergei Likhachev / Alex Metreveli Alexander Irakliyevich Metreveli ( ka, ალექსანდრე მეტრეველი, tr, ; russian: Александр Ираклиевич Метревели ; born 2 November 1944) is a retired Soviet tennis player of Georgian b ... ''(third round)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 References External links * *1973 Wimbledon Championships – Men's draws and resultsat the International Tennis Federation {{DEFAULTSORT:1973 Wimbledon Championships - Men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Connors
James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. He held the top Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from 1974 to 1977 and a career total of 268 weeks. By virtue of his long and prolific career, Connors still holds three prominent Open Era men's singles records: 109 titles, 1,557 matches played, and 1,274 match wins. His titles include eight major singles titles (a joint Open Era record five US Opens, two Wimbledons, one Australian Open), three year-end championships, and 17 Grand Prix Super Series titles. In 1974, he became the second man in the Open Era to win three major titles in a calendar year, and was not permitted to participate in the fourth, the French Open. Connors finished year end number one in the ATP rankings from 1974 to 1978. In 1982, he won both Wimbledon and the US Open and was ATP Player of the Year and ITF World Champion. He retired in 1996 at the age of 43. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Curtis (tennis)
Peter Curtis (born 29 August 1945 ) is a former British professional tennis 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 ... player. Curtis won one Grand Slam title in mixed doubles with his then-wife Mary Ann Eisel Curtis. Grand Slam finals Mixed doubles (1 title) Career finals Doubles (1 runner-up) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Curtis, Peter 1945 births Living people Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles English male tennis players British male tennis players Tennis people from Surrey Sportspeople from Woking US Open (tennis) champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raúl Ramírez
Raúl Ramírez (born 20 June 1953) is a Mexican retired professional tennis player. He was active during the 1970s and 1980s. Ramírez was the first player to finish first in both singles and doubles Grand Prix point standings, accomplishing the feat in 1976. He attended and played tennis at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.USC Men's Tennis – On The Pro Tour , USCTrojans.com, Accessed 8 July 2008. Personal life Ramírez was born in . In 1981, he married the Venezuelan-born former |
Mike Machette
Mike Machette (born January 27, 1951) is a former professional tennis 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 ... player from the United States. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he finished runner-up at three doubles events. Career finals Doubles runners-up (3) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Machette, Mike American male tennis players People from Belvedere, California Sportspeople from Marin County, California Tennis players from California 1951 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Yuill (tennis)
John McLaren Yuill (born 12 December 1948) is a former professional tennis 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 ... player from South Africa. Most of his tennis success was in doubles. During his career, he won two doubles titles. Career finals Doubles (2 titles, 2 runner-ups) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yuill, John South African male tennis players Living people 1948 births Tennis players from Durban White South African people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Holmes (tennis)
Norman Holmes (born October 5, 1949) is an American former professional tennis player of the 1970s. He was active from 1966 to 1983 where he won 6 career singles titles 4 on the world wide ILTF Circuit and 2 on the ILTF Satellite Circuit. Career He played his first tournament at the Southern Connecticut Open in 1966 where he reached the final, but lost to David Barker. Holmes played collegiate tennis for the University of Georgia and was the first person in the program's history to earn four All-SEC selections (1968-71). He was a finalist at the Southern Collegiate Championships in 1968. He won his first singles title in 1971 on the ILTF Circuit at the Mount Snow Open against Ned Weld. In 1973 he was a finalist at the Surrey Hard Court Championships, where he lost to Kim Warwick, the following year in 1974 he won the title against Colin Dowdeswell. He was also a finalist at the South Florida Open in 1973 where he lost to Eddie Dibbs. In 1976 he toured the Middle East and East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Phillips-Moore
Barry Phillips-Moore (born 9 June 1938) is an Australian former tennis player of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. In singles, Phillips-Moore twice reached the semifinals of the Australian Championships, in 1961 and 1968. In doubles, he was a quarterfinalist at Australian Championships / Australian Open eight times and the French Open once, in 1972. Phillips-Moore won the 1968 ATP Auckland Open defeating Onny Parun in a five-set final. Phillips-Moore won the 1971 ATP Stuttgart Open defeating István Gulyás István Gulyás ( hu, Gulyás István; 14 October 1931 – 31 July 2000) was the second Hungarian male tennis player to become a Grand Slam finalist. He was defeated in the 1966 French Open Men's final by Tony Roche Anthony Dalton Roche ... in the final. Career singles titles Open era finals (2) Doubles champion (1) Singles finalist (1) External links * * 1938 births Australian male tennis players Living people Tennis players from Adelaide S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Davidson
Owen Keir Davidson (born 4 October 1943) is a former professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s. Alongside Billie Jean King, Davidson won eight grand slam mixed doubles titles. In 1967 he won a calendar year slam for mixed doubles, when he won the Australian Championships (with Lesley Turner Bowrey), and the French Championships, Wimbledon and the US Championships (with King). Davidson became the first player to win a match in the open era of tennis when he defeated John Clifton in the first round of the British Hard Court Championships in Bournemouth played in April 1968. His best grand slam singles result was at Wimbledon in 1966, when he reached the semifinals (beating top seed Roy Emerson before losing to Manuel Santana). He is also the 1972 Australian Open and the 1973 US Open men's doubles champion, partnering John Newcombe and Ken Rosewall. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in 2010. He was inducted into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Pinto Bravo
Jaime René Pinto Bravo (born 9 October 1939) is a retired professional tennis player from Chile. He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 73 in August 1973. Life Jaime Pinto Bravo was born in Chile and he played in Davis Cup for Chile. His daughter Anita Pinto Anita or ANITA may refer to: Arts * ''Anita'' (1967 film), an Indian film * ''Anita'' (2009 film), an Argentine film * ''Anita'' (2021 film), a Hong Kong film *'' Anita: Swedish Nymphet'', a 1973 erotic film People * Anita (given name), people ... is a professional squash player. References External links * * * * * Jamie Rene Pinto Bravo https://www.itftennis.com/en/rankings/world-tennis-masters-tour-rankings/ at ITF Tennis 1939 births Living people Chilean male tennis players Tennis players at the 1967 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for Chile 20th-century Chilean people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Chile-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcello Lara
Marcelo Lara (born October 5, 1947 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a former professional tennis 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 ... player from Mexico. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won two doubles titles. Career finals Doubles: 9 (2 titles, 7 runner-ups) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lara, Marcelo Mexican male tennis players Tennis players from Mexico City Living people 1947 births Tennis players at the 1967 Pan American Games Pan American Games medalists in tennis Pan American Games silver medalists for Mexico 20th-century Mexican people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
František Pála
František Pála (born 28 March 1944) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic who competed for Czechoslovakia. His son Petr was also a tennis player. Career The Czechoslovak player took part in 15 Davis Cup ties for his national team, the first in 1966. At a tie in Barcelona in 1972, Pala had a win over Manuel Orantes. Earlier that year, in a tie against Sweden, Pala defeated Björn Borg, although the Swede was only 15 at the time. In all he played 25 rubbers, of which he won 15, all but one of them in singles. He later served as Czechoslovak Davis Cup captain. Pala, who won the Czechoslovakian Championships in 1973, played in the singles draw of 18 Grand Slam tournaments and made the third round three times, at the 1970 French Open, 1972 French Open and 1972 Wimbledon Championships. He had his best year on the tennis circuit in 1972, when he was a finalist at Monte Carlo and Madrid, losing both matches to Ilie Năstase Ilie Theodoriu Năstase (, born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teimuraz Kakulia
Teimuraz Kakulia ( ka, თეიმურაზ კაკულია, tr, ; 26 April 1947, Tbilisi, Georgian SSR — 25 August 2006, Tbilisi, Georgia) was a Soviet tennis player and Soviet/Georgian tennis coach. Tennis career Teimuraz Kakulia started playing tennis at the age of 11. For the most part of his tennis career, he remained in the shadow of his colleague and friend Alex Metreveli, losing to him five times in the singles finals of the USSR tennis championships. Together they took five men's doubles titles at the Soviet championships, and Kakulia won the tournament once with Marina Chuvyrina in mixed doubles. at the Encyclopedia of Russian Tennis Other highlights of Kakulia's career were winning bronze medals in the mixed doubles exhibition event at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |