The 1946 Australian Championships was a
tennis tournament that took place on outdoor
grass courts at the
Memorial Drive,
Adelaide, Australia from 19 January to 29 January. It was the 34th 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 8th held in Adelaide, and the first
Grand Slam tournament of the year. It was also the first edition of the championship after a five-year hiatus due to World War II. The singles titles were won by Australians
John Bromwich and
Nancye Wynne Bolton.
Finals
Men's singles
John Bromwich defeated
Dinny Pails 5–7, 6–3, 7–5, 3–6, 6–2
Women's singles
Nancye Wynne Bolton defeated
Joyce Fitch
Joyce Fitch Rymer (née Fitch; 3 April 1922 – 26 July 2012) was a tennis player from Australia who reached the women's singles final of the 1946 Australian Championships, losing to Nancye Wynne Bolton 6–4, 6–4. She teamed with Mary Bevi ...
6–4, 6–4
Men's doubles
John Bromwich /
Adrian Quist defeated
Max Newcombe /
Len Schwartz 6–3, 6–1, 9–7
Women's doubles
Joyce Fitch
Joyce Fitch Rymer (née Fitch; 3 April 1922 – 26 July 2012) was a tennis player from Australia who reached the women's singles final of the 1946 Australian Championships, losing to Nancye Wynne Bolton 6–4, 6–4. She teamed with Mary Bevi ...
/
Mary Bevis defeated
Nancye Wynne Bolton /
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 Sla ...
9–7, 6–4
Mixed doubles
Nancye Wynne Bolton /
Colin Long defeated
Joyce Fitch
Joyce Fitch Rymer (née Fitch; 3 April 1922 – 26 July 2012) was a tennis player from Australia who reached the women's singles final of the 1946 Australian Championships, losing to Nancye Wynne Bolton 6–4, 6–4. She teamed with Mary Bevi ...
/
John Bromwich 6–0, 6–4
References
External links
Australian Open official website
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1946
Events January
* January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
* January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
1946 in Australian tennis
January 1946 sports events in Australia