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1963 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Chuck McKinley defeated Fred Stolle 9–7, 6–1, 6–4 in the final to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 1963 Wimbledon Championships. Rod Laver was the defending champion, but was ineligible to compete after turning professional. Seeds Roy Emerson ''(quarterfinals)'' Manuel Santana ''(semifinals)'' Ken Fletcher ''(second round)'' Chuck McKinley (champion) Martin Mulligan ''(fourth round)'' Pierre Darmon ''(second round)'' Jan-Erik Lundqvist ''(fourth round)'' Mike Sangster ''(first round)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Bottom half Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:1963 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Singles 1963 Wimbledon Championships, Men's Singles Wimbledon Championship by year – Men's singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck McKinley
Charles Robert McKinley Jr. (January 5, 1941 – August 11, 1986) was an American former world no. 1 men's amateur tennis champion of the 1960s. He is remembered as an undersized, hard-working dynamo, whose relentless effort and competitive spirit led American tennis to the top of the sport during a period heavily dominated by Australians. McKinley won the 1963 Men's Singles Championship at Wimbledon. At the end of 1963, McKinley was ranked world No. 1 amateur by Ned Potter and an Ulrich Kaiser panel of 13 experts. He paired with Dennis Ralston to win the 1963 Davis Cup, the only interruption in eight unbroken years of Australian dominance. He also paired with Ralston to win the U.S. Men's Doubles championships in 1961, 1963, and 1964. Biography McKinley was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of a local pipe fitter, and grew up in a 'rough neighborhood' on the north side of town. As a boy, McKinley used to drop by the local YMCA where he was taught table tennis by volunte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Davidson
Owen Keir Davidson (4 October 1943 – 12 May 2023) was an Australian professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s. Alongside Billie Jean King, Davidson won eight grand slam mixed doubles titles. In 1967 he won a calendar year slam for mixed doubles, when he won the Australian Championships (with Lesley Turner Bowrey), and the French Championships, Wimbledon and the US Championships (with King). Davidson became the first player to win a match in the open era of tennis when he defeated John Clifton in the first round of the British Hard Court Championships in Bournemouth played in April 1968. His best grand slam singles result was at Wimbledon in 1966, when he reached the semifinals (beating top seed Roy Emerson before losing to Manuel Santana). He was also the 1972 Australian Open and the 1973 US Open men's doubles champion, partnering John Newcombe and Ken Rosewall respectively. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Jacques
Warren Jacques (born 10 March 1938) is an Australian tennis coach and former player. Jacques, a native of Sydney, was active on the international tour in the 1960s. He reached the fourth round of the 1961 Wimbledon Championships, beating Jørgen Ulrich, Ingo Buding and Donald Dell en route. His title wins included the Welsh Championships in 1963. During the 1980s, while working in Dallas, Jacques was the tour coach of Texas-based players Kevin Curren, Steve Denton and Bill Scanlon. He guided both Curren and Scanlon to the world's top 10, while Denton made it as high as 12 under Jacques. In 1987 he was appointed captain of the Great Britain Davis Cup team The Great Britain Davis Cup team has represented the United Kingdom internationally since 1900 in the Davis Cup. Organised by the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), it is one of the 50 members of International Tennis Federation's European associatio ... and stayed in the position for three Davis Cup campaigns. References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
István Gulyás
István Gulyás (; 14 October 1931 – 31 July 2000) was a Hungarian tennis player. He was the second Hungarian man to reach a major singles final, after Jozsef Asboth in 1947. Gulyás was defeated in the 1966 French Championships final to Tony Roche Anthony Dalton Roche Order of Australia, AO Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 17 May 1945) is an Australian former professional tennis player. A native of Tarcutta, Roche played junior tennis in the New South Wales regional city of Wagga ... in three sets, after permitting the match to be delayed by a day for Roche to recover from an ankle injury. He was ranked inside the world's Top 10 on multiple occasions, and Lance Tingay of ''The Daily Telegraph'' ranked Gulyás as the world No. 8 in 1966. He holds the record for the most Hungarian National Championship titles with 15. Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (0-1) Grand Slam tournament performance timeline Singles References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Noël Grinda
Jean-Noël Grinda (born 5 October 1936) is a former French international tennis player. He competed in the Davis Cup a number of times, from 1959 to 1964 and in the Australian Open two times, in 1954 and 1965. He won the Paris International Championships on clay in 1960 defeating Pierre Darmon and Robert Haillet in the final two rounds. Grinda belongs to a celebrated Nice family. He married the daughter of :fr:Jean Michard-Pellissier. He is today known as a skilled backgammon Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back at least 1,600 years. The earliest record of backgammo ... player. "Après Francine, Jean-Noël. A 65 ans, la silhouette s'est un peu épaissie, mais la stature, la chevelur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Drossart
Eric Claude Drossart (born 21 February 1942) is a former tennis player from Belgium. Tennis career Drossart was a regular member of the Belgium Davis Cup team from 1960 until 1972. He made his debut in 1960 against Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the List of European ... during the Europe Zone quarterfinals tie. During his Davis Cup career, he played 6 singles and 4 doubles matches without scoring any victories. During his Davis Cup career, he won 8 of the 33 singles matches and 7 of the 16 doubles matches that he played. Later career After his playing career, Drossart joined the International Management Group in 1974, becoming Vice-President and Director of Marketing and Sales in Europe. He was the tournament director of the Belgian Tennis Open from 1978 until 1981 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrice Beust
Patrice Beust (born 3 September 1944) is a former professional tennis player from France. Biography Beust played doubles for the France Davis Cup team during the 1960s. He featured in 13 ties and partnered Daniel Contet in all of his matches. It was with Contet that he won his only title on the Grand Prix circuit, the 1972 Monte Carlo Open, a top tier event that was part of the Grand Prix Super Series. He and Contet also made the semi-finals of the 1974 French Open. His other semi-final appearances at Grand Slam level came in the mixed doubles, at the 1976 French Open with Gail Benedetti and at the 1979 French Open with Betty Stöve. As a singles player he made the third rounds of the 1963 French Championships and the 1966 Wimbledon Championships. One of the early coaches of Yannick Noah Yannick Noah (; born 18 May 1960) is a French former professional tennis player and singer, who was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2005. Noah won the Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramanathan Krishnan
Ramanathan Krishnan (born 11 April 1937) is a retired tennis player from India who was among the world's leading players in the 1950s and 1960s. He was twice a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 1960 and 1961, reaching as high as World No. 3 in Potter's amateur rankings. He led India to the Challenge Round of the 1966 Davis Cup against Australia and was the non playing captain when Vijay Amritraj and Anand Amritraj led India into the 1974 Davis Cup finals against South Africa. He was active from 1953 to 1975 and won 69 singles titles. Tennis career Junior Krishnan honed his skills under his father, T. K. Ramanathan, a veteran Nagercoil based player. He soon made his mark on the national circuit, sweeping all the junior titles. He as a 13-year-old school student sought and got special permission from the Principal Gordon of Loyola College to take part in the Bertram Tournament open only to college students and won it in 1951. Krishnan qualified for 1953 Wimbledon and reached fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Crookenden
Ian Sinclair Crookenden (born 10 December 1943) is a former professional tennis player from New Zealand. Crookenden currently serves as the Head Men's and Women's Coach at Saint Joseph's University. He is a member of the Intercollegiate Tennis Hall of Fame. Biography Crookenden first represented the New Zealand Davis Cup team in 1962, for a tie against Denmark in Copenhagen. It came soon after he had finished runner-up to Rod Laver at the 1962 British Hard Court Championships in Bournemouth. He also competed at the French Championships and Wimbledon that year, making the third round of the latter. In 1963 he won the Newport Casino Invitational and also finished runner-up in the All England Plate. He played collegiate tennis in the United States for UCLA from 1963 to 1967 and won two NCAA Division I doubles titles. In 1965, his third year, he was a member of the championship winning team. He also partnered Arthur Ashe to win the NCAA doubles title, then in 1966 claimed the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Ralston
Richard Dennis Ralston (July 27, 1942 – December 6, 2020) was an American professional tennis player whose active career spanned the 1960s and 1970s. As a young player, he was coached by tennis pro Pancho Gonzales. He attended the University of Southern California (USC) and won NCAA championships under its coach George Toley. He and partner Bill Bond captured the NCAA doubles title in 1964. He was the highest-ranked American player at the end of three consecutive years in the 1960s; Lance Tingay of ''The Daily Telegraph'' ranked him as high as world No. 5 in 1966 (Ralston was ranked world no. 3 by the magazine ''Reading Eagle'' in 1963)."Emerson, Ralston Win Net Tests", ''Reading Eagle'', 2 September 1963. His best result at a Grand Slam singles event came in 1966 when he was seeded sixth and reached the final of the Wimbledon Championships, which he lost to fourth-seeded Manuel Santana in straight sets. At the end of that year he turned professional. Ralston was a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladislav Legenstein
Ladislav "Laci" Legenstein (born 19 November 1926) is a Croatian–born Austrian former tennis player. He was active from 1950 to 1975 and won 13 career singles titles. Early years He was born in Čakovec, Croatian (then Kingdom SCS). Both his parents were successful table tennis players and Ladislav also practised this sport in his youth, followed by football and volleyball (OK Mladost Čakovec). He started playing tennis on a court near his school and focused on this sport when he went to study in Zagreb. In 1955 he left Yugoslavia. Tennis career His best singles performance at a Grand Slam event was reaching the fourth round at the 1959 French Championships. In the third round he defeated 20-year-old Rod Laver in five sets but lost in the next round in straight sets to Ian Vermaak. Legenstein participated in five Wimbledon Championships but never made it past the first round in the singles event. Together with Torben Ulrich he reached the semifinal of the 1959 Wimbledon Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Diepraam
Keith Edward Diepraam (born 11 September 1942) is a retired South African male tennis player. Diepraam started playing tennis at age 15 when he went to Glenwood High School in Durban, South Africa. In 1964 he was runner–up to countryman Cliff Drysdale at the Stuttgart tournament. Between 1964 and 1966 Diepraam played seven ties for the South African Davis Cup team and compiled a record of 20 wins and 12 losses. In 1965 and 1966 South Africa reached the final of the Europe zone but lost to Spain and West Germany respectively. After his playing career he became a tennis coach and took a coaching position in Midland, Texas, USA in 1973. In 1990 he became the personal coach of Wayne Ferreira Wayne Richard Ferreira (born 15 September 1971) is a South African tennis coach and a former professional player. Ferreira won 15 ATP singles titles and 11 doubles titles. His career-high rankings were world No. 6 in singles (in May 1995) and .... In 2009 he was inducted into the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
