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1967 Australian Championships – Mixed Doubles
Owen Davidson and Lesley Turner Bowrey, Lesley Turner defeated defending champions Tony Roche and Judy Tegart-Dalton, Judy Tegart in the final, 9–7, 6–4 to win the mixed doubles tennis title at the 1967 Australian Championships. Seeds Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top and bottom two seed (tennis), seeded teams received bye (tennis), byes into the second round. Draw Final Top half Bottom half References 1967 Australian Championships Mixed Doubles Draw 1967 in Australian tennis 1967 Australian Championships, Mixed Doubles Australian Open (tennis) by year – Mixed doubles, 1967 {{Tennis-GrandSlam-stub ... [...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] |