The 1939 Australian Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on outdoor Grass courts at the Kooyong Stadium in Melbourne, Australia from 20 January to 30 January. It was the 32nd edition of the Australian Championships (now known as the

Australian Open The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events held each year, preceding the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. Th ...

), the 9th held in Melbourne, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. Australians John Bromwich and Emily Hood Westacott won the singles titles.

Finals

Men's singles

John Bromwich defeated Adrian Quist 6–4, 6–1, 6–3

Women's singles

Emily Hood Westacott defeated

Nell Hall Hopman Eleanor "Nell" Mary Hall Hopman, CBE (née Hall; 9 March 1909 – 10 January 1968) was one of the female tennis players that dominated Australian tennis from 1930 through the early 1960s. She was the first wife of Harry Hopman, the coach and ca ...

6–1, 6–2

Men's doubles

John Bromwich / Adrian Quist defeated Colin Long / Don Turnbull 6–4, 7–5, 6–2

Women's doubles

Thelma Coyne 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 S ...

Nancye Wynne Nancye Wynne Bolton (née Wynne; 2 December 1916 – 9 November 2001) was a tennis player from Australia. She won the women's singles title six times at the Australian Open, Australian Championships, third only to Margaret Court's and Serena W ...

defeated

May Hardcastle Margaret May Hardcastle (6 May 1913 – 22 August 2002) was an Australian tennis player of the 1930s and 1940s. Biography Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Hardcastle was educated at Brisbane Girls Grammar School and later the Presbyterian Gi ...

/ Emily Hood Westacott 7–5, 6–4

Mixed doubles

Harry Hopman Henry Christian Hopman Order of the British Empire, CBE (12 August 1906 – 27 December 1985) was an Australian tennis player and coach. Early life Harry Hopman was born on 12 August 1906 in Glebe, New South Wales, Glebe, Sydney as the third c ...

defeated

Margaret Wilson Margaret Anne Wilson (born 20 May 1947) is a New Zealand lawyer, academic and former Labour Party politician. She served as Attorney-General from 1999 to 2005 and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2005 to 2008, during the Fifth L ...

/ John Bromwich 6–8, 6–3, 6–2

References

External links

Australian Open official website
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1939 This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Third Reich *** Jews are forbidden to ...

January 1939 sports events