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Robert Howe (tennis)
Robert (Bob) Howe (3 August 1925 – 30 November 2004) was an Australian tennis player. His main successes were achieved in the doubles competition. He won four mixed doubles Grand Slam titles, including the 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 * ... mixed doubles championship in 1958. Grand Slam finals Doubles (3 runner-ups) Mixed doubles (4 titles, 4 runner-ups) References External links * * 1925 births 2004 deaths Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles Australian male tennis players Tennis people from New South Wales Australian Championships (tennis) champions French Championships (tennis) champions Wimbledon champions (pre-Open Era) {{Australia-tennis-bio-stub ...
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Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". The 2021 census recorded the population of Greater Sydney as 5,231,150, meaning the city is home to approximately 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. Nicknames of the city include the 'Emerald City' and the 'Harbour City'. Aboriginal Australians have inhabited the Greater Sydney region for at least 30,000 years, and Aboriginal engravings and cultural sites are common throughout Greater Sydney. The traditional custodians of the land on which modern Sydney stands are ...
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Don Candy
Don Candy (31 March 1929 – 14 June 2020) was an Australian tennis player who was mainly successful in doubles. At the Grand Slam tournaments he reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Championships singles event in 1952 and 1959. In the singles event at the French Championships he reached the eighth-finals in 1956 and 1960. In June 1951 Candy won the singles title at the Kent Championships, a grass court tournament held in Beckenham, defeating Gardnar Mulloy in three sets. The next year, 1952, he again reached the Kent final but on this occasion lost in three sets to Ham Richardson. In July 1951 he won the Midlands counties men's singles title after a straight sets victory in the final against Naresh Kumar from India. In 1956 he won the Men's Doubles title at the French Championships. With his American partner Bob Perry he won against compatriots Ashley Cooper and Lew Hoad in three straight sets. After his active career he moved to Baltimore in 1967 where he coached ...
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Shirley Bloomer
Shirley Brasher (née Bloomer; born 13 June 1934) is a former tennis player from England who won three Grand Slam titles during her career and who was the top-ranked singles player in her country in 1957. Early life She attended Cleethorpes Girls' Grammar School (became Lindsey School in 1973) in Cleethorpes. Career Brasher (then known as Shirley Bloomer) won the singles title at the 1957 French Championships, defeating Dorothy Head Knode in the final in straight sets. She was the runner-up in singles at the 1958 French Championships, losing to Zsuzsi Körmöczy 6–4, 1–6, 6–2, having defeated Maria Bueno in the semifinals.British Lawn Tennis July 1958 Bloomer teamed with Darlene Hard to win the women's doubles title at the 1957 French Championships, defeating Yola Ramírez and Rosie Reyes in the final 7–5, 4–6, 7–5. She teamed with Nicola Pietrangeli to win the mixed doubles title at the 1958 French Championships, defeating Lorraine Coghlan and Robert Howe in the ...
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Lorraine Coghlan
Lorraine Coghlan Robinson (née Coghlan; born 23 September 1937) is a former tennis player from the state of Victoria in Australia. In 1956, she won the Australian Championships Girls' Singles title. Coghlan teamed with Bob Howe to win the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1958. Coghlan and Howe were also the runners-up in mixed doubles at the 1958 French Championships. At the Australian Championships, Coghlan was the singles runner-up in 1958, losing to Angela Mortimer Florence Angela Margaret Mortimer Barrett, MBE (née Mortimer; born 21 April 1932) is a British former world No. 1 tennis player. Mortimer won three Grand Slam singles titles: the 1955 French Championships, the 1958 Australian Championships, an ... 6–3, 6–4, and was a runner-up in women's doubles in 1958, 1959, 1960, and 1967. Coghlan married John Robinson on 19 December 1959. Grand Slam finals Doubles (4 runner-ups) Mixed doubles (1 title, 1 runner-up) Grand Slam singles tournament timeline ...
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1958 French Championships (tennis)
The 1958 French Championships (now known as the French Open) was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France. The tournament ran from 20 May until 31 May. It was the 62nd staging of the French Championships, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1958. Mervyn Rose and Zsuzsi Körmöczy won the singles titles. Finals Men's singles Mervyn Rose defeated Luis Ayala 6–3, 6–4, 6–4 Women's singles Zsuzsa Körmöczy (HUN) defeated Shirley Bloomer (GBR) 6–4, 1–6, 6–2 Men's doubles Ashley Cooper / Neale Fraser defeated Bob Howe / Abe Segal 3–6, 8–6, 6–3, 7–5 Women's doubles Rosie Reyes / Yola Ramírez defeated Mary Bevis Hawton / Thelma Coyne Long 6–4, 7–5 Mixed doubles Shirley Bloomer / Nicola Pietrangeli defeated Lorraine Coghlan / Bob Howe 8–6, 6–2 References External links French Open official website {{1958 in tennis French Championships French Championsh ...
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Peter Newman (tennis)
Peter Newman may refer to: *Peter C. Newman (1929–2023), Canadian journalist who emigrated from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia *Peter Kenneth Newman (1928–2001), English economist, historian of economic thought *Peter R. Newman (1926–1975), British writer *Peter Newman (environmental scientist) (born 1945), writer on urban planning and sustainability *Peter Newman (actor) (born 1942), American actor best known for his voice-over work for Rankin-Bass *Peter Newman (film producer), American film producer *Peter Newman (tennis), Australian tennis player of the 1950s, see 1958 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles *Peter Newman (author), English author of fantasy novels and short stories *Peter Anim Newman Apostle Peter Kwaku Mensah Newman Anim (also known as Kwaku Manasseh) was born on February 4, 1890 to Simon Appiagyei and Hannah Lartebea of Boso in the Volta Region of Ghana. He is credited as the originator of Classical Pentecostalism in Gh ... (1890–1984), Ghanaian ...
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Angela Mortimer
Florence Angela Margaret Mortimer Barrett, MBE (née Mortimer; born 21 April 1932) is a British former world No. 1 tennis player. Mortimer won three Grand Slam singles titles: the 1955 French Championships, the 1958 Australian Championships, and 1961 Wimbledon Championships when she was 29 years old and partially deaf. Mortimer also teamed with Anne Shilcock to win the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1955, her only women's doubles title at a major. She teamed with Coghlan to reach the women's doubles final at the 1958 Australian Championships. Mortimer and Peter Newman reached the mixed doubles final at the 1958 Australian Championships, her only mixed doubles final at a major. She is married to the former player and broadcaster John Barrett. Following the death of Shirley Fry in 2021, Mortimer became the longest still surviving Wimbledon ladies singles champion. Career Mortimer reached the quarterfinals of the US National Championships, then lost to second seed Dori ...
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Mary Bevis Hawton
Mary Renetta Hawton (née Bevis; 4 September 1924 – 18 January 1981) was a tennis player from Australia. Her career ranged from the 1940s to the 1950s. Hawton won the women's doubles title at the Australian Championships five times. In 1958 she also won the mixed doubles title together with compatriot Robert Howe. In 1948, she married Keith Ernest Hawton. She was captain of the Australian Fed Cup team in 1979 and 1980 and director of the NSW Tennis Association. In 1979, Hawton published a book titled ''How to Play Winning Tennis''. She died on 18 January 1981 in Sydney, Australia. The Mary Hawton Trophy, the prize for the winner of the Australian teams championships for girls, was named after her, as is Hawton Place, in the Canberra suburb of Chisholm. Career Mary Hawton found much success in Australia at the Australian Championships. She made it to the semifinals in singles six times in 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956 and 1959. Hawton reached 12 finals in Australia, eight ...
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Luis Ayala (tennis)
Luis Alberto Ayala Salinas (born 18 September 1932) is a former Chilean tennis player who competed in the 1950s and 1960s. Amateur He was twice a singles runner-up at the French Championships. In 1958 he was seeded fifth and reached the final after a victory against first-seeded and world No. 1 Ashley Cooper in the semifinal. In the final, however, he was defeated in straight sets by Mervyn Rose while in 1960 he lost the final in five sets to Nicola Pietrangeli. Together with Thelma Coyne Long, he won the mixed doubles title at the 1956 French Championships. Ayala won the Gold Medal at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago, beating Canadian Bob Bédard in the final. Ayala won the prestigious singles title at the Italian Open in 1959, defeating Pietrangeli in the semifinal and Neale Fraser in the final, both matches in four sets. The following year, 1960, he again reached the Italian final but lost in five sets to Barry MacKay. Ayala won the 1960 Argentina Championshi ...
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Thelma Coyne Long
Thelma Dorothy Coyne Long (née Coyne; 14 October 1918 – 13 April 2015) was an Australian tennis player and one of the female players who dominated Australian tennis from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. During her career, she won 19 Grand Slam tournament titles. In 2013, Long was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Tennis career At the Australian Championships, Long won singles titles in 1952 and 1954 and was a singles finalist in 1940, 1951, 1955 and 1956. In women's doubles, she won 10 titles with Nancye Wynne Bolton (1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951 and 1952) and two titles with Mary Bevis Hawton (1956 and 1958). Long was a women's doubles finalist with Bolton in 1946 and 1950. She won mixed doubles titles in 1951, 1952 and 1955 with George Worthington and in 1954 with Rex Hartwig. She was a mixed doubles finalist in 1948 with Bill Sidwell. At Wimbledon, Long was a women's doubles finalist in 1957 with Hawton and a mixed doubles fina ...
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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. Championships in 1960 and 1961. With eight different partners, she won a total of 13 women's doubles titles in Grand Slam tournaments, and was the finest doubles player of her generation. Her last doubles title, at the age of 33 at the 1969 US Open, came six years after she had retired from serious competition to become a tennis instructor. She also played the US Open singles tournament in 1969, losing in the second round to Françoise Dürr. Career According to Lance Tingay, Hard was ranked among the top 10 in the world from 1957 through 1963, reaching a career high of No. 2 in those rankings in 1957, 1960, and 1961. ''The Miami Herald'' ranked her No. 1 for the 1961 season. In 1957, she made her first Wimbledon finals appearance, losing to ...
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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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