Third-seeded
Nicola Pietrangeli defeated
Ian Vermaak
Ian Vermaak (born 28 March 1933) is a former tennis player competing for South Africa. As the No. 4 seed he finished runner-up to Nicola Pietrangeli in the singles final of the Amateur French Championships of Roland-Garros in 1959, after having ...
3–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–1 in the final to win the men's singles tennis title at the
1959 French Championships.
Seeds
The seeded players are listed below.
Nicola Pietrangeli is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.
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Luis Ayala ''(semifinals)''
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Neale Fraser ''(semifinals)''
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Nicola Pietrangeli ''(champion)''
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Ian Vermaak
Ian Vermaak (born 28 March 1933) is a former tennis player competing for South Africa. As the No. 4 seed he finished runner-up to Nicola Pietrangeli in the singles final of the Amateur French Championships of Roland-Garros in 1959, after having ...
''(final)''
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Jacques Brichant
Jacques "Jacky" Brichant (28 March 1930 – 9 March 2011) was a Belgian tennis player. He was ranked world No. 9 for 1957. Brichant was a clay court specialist and won many clay court tournaments in Europe.
Brichant has played the most Davis ...
''(quarterfinals)''
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Pierre Darmon
Pierre Darmon (born 14 January 1934) is a French former tennis player. He was ranked No.8 in the world in 1963, and also reached the top ten in 1958 and 1964.
Early life
Darmon was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He moved to France at 17 years of age.
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''(first round)''
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Jon Douglas ''(third round)''
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Budge Patty ''(third round)''
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Roy Emerson ''(quarterfinals)''
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Jaroslav Drobný ''(fourth round)''
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Billy Knight ''(quarterfinals)''
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Orlando Sirola
Orlando Sirola (30 April 1928 – 13 November 1995) was a male tennis player from Italy.
Biography
Sirola was born in Fiume, today the Croatian city of Rijeka. He only began playing tennis at the age of 22.
In 1958 he won the singles title at ...
''(third round)''
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Rod Laver
Rodney George Laver (born 9 August 1938) is an Australian former tennis player. Laver was the world number 1 ranked professional in some sources in 1964, in all sources from 1965 to 1969 and in some sources in 1970, spanning four years befor ...
''(third round)''
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Martin Mulligan ''(quarterfinals)''
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Lew Gerrard ''(fourth round)''
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Giuseppe Merlo ''(fourth round)''
Draw
Key
* Q =
Qualifier
* WC =
Wild card
* LL =
Lucky loser
* r =
Retired
Finals
Earlier rounds
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
External links
* on the French Open website
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1959
Events January
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1959 in French tennis