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1968 US Open – Men's Doubles
John Newcombe and Tony Roche were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Clark Graebner and Charlie Pasarell. Bob Lutz and Stan Smith won the title, defeating Arthur Ashe and Andrés Gimeno in the final, 11–9, 6–1, 7–5. Seeds John Newcombe / Tony Roche ''(quarterfinals)'' Ken Rosewall / Fred Stolle ''(third round)'' Roy Emerson / Rod Laver ''(second round)'' Mal Anderson / Dennis Ralston ''(quarterfinals)'' Tom Okker / Marty Riessen ''(quarterfinals)'' Bob Lutz / Stan Smith (champions) Arthur Ashe / Andrés Gimeno ''(final)'' Clark Graebner / Charlie Pasarell ''(semifinals)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 External links Men's Doubles main draw [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lutz (tennis)
Robert Lutz (born August 29, 1947) is an American former amateur and a professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s. He and Stan Smith were one of the best doubles teams of all time. Bud Collins ranked Lutz as world No. 7 in singles in 1972. From 1967 to 1977, he was ranked amongst the top-10 American players eight times, with his highest ranking being No. 5 in both 1968 and 1970. Career Lutz won the 1967 NCAA singles title, and with Stan Smith, won the NCAA doubles crown in 1967 and 1968. He won the men's singles in the Ojai Tennis Tournament in 1966. During his career, he won 11 singles titles, the most important being the U.S. Pro Tennis Championships in 1972 and the Paris Masters in 1978. He reached 15 other singles finals, including Cincinnati in 1974. He won 43 doubles titles, 37 of which were won with Stan Smith, and he reached 30 other doubles finals. With Smith, he formed the only team to win the doubles title at U.S. Championships on four different surfaces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Osborne (tennis)
Jim Osborne (born February 1, 1945) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He achieved most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won five doubles titles, and he won an Olympic bronze medal in doubles. Career finals Doubles (7 titles, 3 runner-ups) External links * * American male tennis players Sportspeople from Honolulu Tennis players from Hawaii 1945 births Living people 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Franks (tennis)
Myron Jay "Mike" Franks (born December 23, 1936) is an American former world class tennis player. He was the #1 seeded junior player in 1954 in the US Nationals at Kalamazoo, Michigan. He played #1 singles for UCLA from 1956 to 1958, and was one of 8 All Americans in college tennis. UCLA won its 5th NCAA Tennis Team Championship in 1956, but was placed on two years probation for football recruiting violations in 1957 and 1958. Franks was ranked # 3 in doubles in the United States in 1956, 1957, and 1959, and was ranked # 7 in singles in 1958. He won a gold medal in doubles at the 1961 Maccabiah Games in Israel with Dick Savitt. Early and personal life Franks was born in Beverly Hills, California, and is Jewish. Franks started playing tennis at age 12, and continued playing at Beverly Hills High School, graduating in 1954. He often practiced with Bill Tilden and Pancho Gonzales. He was considered a tennis prodigy from the time he won his first tournament match after only one mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Moore (tennis)
Raymond J. "Ray" Moore (born 24 August 1946) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. In June 1966 he won the East Gloucestershire Championships at Cheltenham on grass, defeating Tom Okker and Dick Crealy in the final two rounds. In May 1969, Moore won the West Berlin Open Championships, defeating Arthur Ashe and Cliff Drysdale in close five-set matches. During his career he won eight doubles titles in the Open Era alone, finishing runner-up an additional 12 times in Open Era doubles. Moore participated in 12 Davis Cup ties for South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ... from 1967 to 1977, including the 1974 South African victory, posting a 12–10 record in singles and posting an 0–1 mark in doubles. In 1981, Moore teamed with Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Hewitt
Robert Anthony John Hewitt (born 12 January 1940) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. In 1967, after marrying a South African, he became a South African citizen. He has won 15 major titles and a career Grand Slam in both men's and mixed doubles. In 2015, he was convicted of rape and sexual assault of girls he was coaching in the 1980s and 1990s; Hewitt was sentenced to six years in jail, and was subsequently expelled from the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Early life Hewitt was born and grew up in Dubbo, Australia, 400 kilometres west of Sydney. In the 1970s, he and his South African wife Dalaille (née Nicholas) moved to Johannesburg, South Africa. He is now a South African citizen. Career Hewitt's most significant accomplishment was winning all Grand Slam doubles titles, both in men's and mixed doubles (US Open, Wimbledon, Australian Open and French Open), and being central to South Africa's only Davis Cup title in 1974. This victory was controversial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Russell (tennis)
Richard Russell (8 September 1945 – 15 January 2025) was a Jamaican professional tennis player. Life and career Russell was the only Jamaican to progress past the first round at all four grand slam tournaments. At the 1966 Australian Championships he won his first round match over Richie Chopra, 6–0, 6–0, 6–0. In July 1965 he won the singles title at the All-Jamaica Tennis Championships for the second time. Russell won the 1966 Kingston International Championships at Kingston, Jamaica defeating Arthur Ashe in the final in three sets. This was an annual tournament on the international ILTF Caribbean Circuit and Russell would be the only Jamaican to win the event. The same season he was a finalist at the Budleigh Salterton Open played on grass in England where he lost to Brian Fairlie. Outside of grand slam competition, he had a noted win over Dennis Ralston in 1972 at an invitational tournament in Puerto Rico. In 1975 he took part in the inaugural Nations Cup (then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haroon Rahim
Haroon Rahim (born 12 November 1949) is a Pakistani former tennis player. The former Pakistan and Asian No. 1. He was active from 1965 to 1978 and won 12 singles tour titles. Rahim was the youngest tennis player ever to play for Pakistan in the Davis Cup at 15 years of age. He was also the highest ranking Pakistani tennis player (a career-high singles ranking of World No. 34 in October 1977). He led the UCLA team to victory with Jeff Borowiak and Jimmy Connors in 1970–71 and was 1971 NCAA doubles champion with Jeff Borowiak. Career Rahim was from the Punjab city of Lahore, from a large family of avid tennis players. His father, Mir Abdur Rahim, was a civil servant who encouraged his children, sons and daughters, to play tennis. Four of Haroon's elder siblings; M. Nasim, M. Naeem, Zulficar and Shahnaz were also national tennis champions. His father loved tennis so much that he said he wanted to die on the tennis court. In 1968, he died of a heart attack while playing doubles wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Olmedo
Alejandro "Alex" Olmedo Rodríguez (March 24, 1936December 9, 2020) was a tennis player from Peru with American citizenship. He was listed by the USTA as a "foreign" player for 1958, but as a U.S. player for 1959. He helped win the Davis Cup for the United States in 1958 and was the No. 2 ranked amateur in 1959. Olmedo won two Majors in 1959 (Australia and Wimbledon) and the U.S. Pro Championships in 1960, and was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987. Biography Although born and raised in Peru, Olmedo moved to Southern California and was mentored by Perry T. Jones, president of the Southern California Tennis Association at the Los Angeles Tennis Club (LATC). George Toley recruited him to play for the University of Southern California (USC). Olmedo graduated with a business degree from USC. While there, he won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Singles and Doubles Championships in 1956 and 1958. (In 1957, USC was excluded from NCAA competition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Holmberg
Ronald "Ronnie" Edward Holmberg (born January 27, 1938) is a former American tennis player who competed during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He was ranked world No. 7 in 1959 and was ranked in the U.S. Top 10 for nine years. He is currently one of the USTA's select "Master Professionals" and devotes most of his time coaching, participating and directing charity events and clinics and other tennis related projects. Summary College Holmberg won his first tournament at age 12 and won three out of the four possible U.S. National Boys' titles in 1953. He won the Junior Wimbledon title in 1956. He graduated from Tulane University where he was a three time All-American and won the SEC singles twice and doubles championship three times and the NCAA doubles championship twice. Tennis career Holmberg won the Junior Wimbledon title in 1956 defeating Rod Laver in the final. In 1957, he won the Eastern Clay Court Championships defeating Tony Vincent. Holmberg played in several Blue Gray e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Sullivan (tennis)
Paul W. Sullivan (born April 17, 1941) is an American former professional tennis player. Tennis career Sullivan was raised in Belmont, Massachusetts and captained Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ... in varsity tennis. Active on tour during the 1960s and 1970s, Sullivan ranked as high as 19th nationally and featured regularly at the US Open, reaching the singles third round in 1965. In 1994 he was inducted into the USTA-New England Hall of Fame. Personal life Sullivan married tennis player Jeannine Balbiers, whose father Ricardo was a Chilean Davis Cup player. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sullivan, Paul 1941 births Living people American male tennis players Harvard Crimson men's tennis players Tennis players from Massac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chauncey Steele III
Chauncey Depew "Chum" Steele III (born February 16, 1944) is a former tennis player from the United States. His father, Chauncey Steele, Jr., also played tennis. Steele competed at the US Open ten times and made three appearances at Wimbledon. He worked as a stockbroker.''Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe,'' also known locally as ''the Globe'', is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Boston Globe'' is the oldest and largest daily new ...'', "Steele Back On Court With New Attitude", December 8, 2002 References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Steele, Chauncey, 03 1944 births Living people American male tennis players Tennis players from California 20th-century American sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Weld
Edward W. Weld (February 20, 1937 — November 19, 2006) was an American professional tennis player. Weld, a Massachusetts native, captained Harvard University in varsity tennis. He twice featured in the singles second round of the US Open U.S. Open or US Open are open championship sporting tournaments that are hosted in the United States and in which anyone, especially amateur and professional, or American and non-American, may compete. The term may also be applied to non-sporting ev .... A stockbroker by profession, he was consistently the number one ranked player in New England and served multiple terms as president of the New England Lawn Tennis Association. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Weld, Ned 1937 births 2006 deaths American male tennis players Harvard Crimson men's tennis players Tennis players from Massachusetts 20th-century American sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |