The 1958 Australian Championships was a
tennis tournament that took place on outdoor
Grass courts at the
White City Tennis Club
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,
Sydney
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, Australia from 17 January to 27 January. It was the 46th 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 13th held in Sydney, and the first
Grand Slam tournament of the year. The singles titles were taken by
Ashley Cooper and
Angela Mortimer.
Champions
Men's singles
Ashley Cooper defeated
Malcolm Anderson
Malcolm James Anderson (born 3 March 1935) is a former tennis player from Australia who was active from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. He won the singles title at the 1957 U.S. National Championships and achieved his highest amateur rankin ...
7–5, 6–3, 6–4
Women's singles
Angela Mortimer defeated
Lorraine Coghlan 6–3, 6–4
Men's doubles
Ashley Cooper /
Neale Fraser defeated
Roy Emerson /
Robert Mark 7–5, 6–8, 3–6, 6–3, 7–5
Women's doubles
Mary Bevis Hawton /
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 ...
defeated
Lorraine Coghlan /
Angela Mortimer 7–5, 6–8, 6–2
Mixed doubles
Mary Bevis Hawton /
Bob Howe defeated
Angela Mortimer /
Peter Newman 9–11, 6–1, 6–2
References
External links
Australian Open official website
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1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
1958 in Australian tennis
January 1958 sports events in Australia