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1972 Australian Open – Men's Singles
Defending champion Ken Rosewall defeated Mal Anderson in the final, 7–6(7–2), 6–3, 7–5 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 1972 Australian Open. It was his eighth and last Grand Slam tournament singles title, and at 37 years, 1 month old, he was the oldest major champion in men's singles in the Open Era, a record that still stands. Seeds The seeded players are listed below. Ken Rosewall is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. # John Newcombe ''(quarterfinals)'' # Ken Rosewall (champion) # John Alexander ''(third round)'' # Alex Metreveli ''(semifinals)'' # Owen Davidson ''(second round)'' # Tony Roche ''(withdrew before the tournament began)'' # Colin Dibley ''(third round)'' # Mal Anderson ''(finals)'' # Dick Crealy ''(quarterfinals)'' # Allan Stone ''(semifinals)'' # John Cooper ''(quarterfinals)'' # Geoff Masters ''(second round)'' Draw Key * Q = Qualifier * WC = Wild card * LL = Lucky loser * r = Retired Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Rosewall
Kenneth Robert Rosewall (born 2 November 1934) is an Australian former World number one male tennis player rankings, world No. 1 professional tennis player. Rosewall won 147 singles titles, including 23 majors: a record 15 Major professional tennis tournaments before the Open Era#Professional majors, Pro Majors and eight Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, Grand Slam tournaments. He also won 15 Pro Majors in doubles and nine Grand Slam doubles titles. Rosewall achieved a Grand Slam (tennis)#Pro Slam, Pro Slam in singles in 1963 by winning the three Pro Majors in one year, and completed the Grand Slam (tennis)#Career Grand Slam, career Grand Slam in doubles. Rosewall had a renowned backhand and enjoyed a long career at the highest levels from the early 1950s to the early 1970s. He was ranked as the world No. 1 men's tennis player by multiple sources from 1961 to 1964, multiple sources in 1970, and Rino Tommasi in 1971 and 1972. Rosewall was first ranked in the top 20 in 1952, and la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Loser
A lucky loser is a sports competitor (player or team) who loses a match in a knockout tournament or loses in qualifying, but who then enters the main draw. This can occur when another competitor withdraws during the tournament because of illness, injury, or other reasons, in which case the lucky loser re-enters the competition in place of the withdrawn competitor, or due to the structure of the tournament. In the event of a lucky loser's re-entry to a competition, it usually occurs before all competitors in the main draw have started their first match in the tournament. Tennis Lucky losers as winners and finalists It is rare for a lucky loser to win an ATP or WTA Tour tournament; Heinz Gunthardt did it in 1978 (at Springfield), Bill Scanlon in 1978 (at Maui), Francisco Clavet in 1990 in Hilversum, Christian Miniussi in 1991 in São Paulo, Sergiy Stakhovsky in 2008 in Zagreb, Rajeev Ram in 2009 in Newport, Andrey Rublev in 2017 in Umag, Leonardo Mayer in the followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Case
Ross Case (born 1 November 1951) is an Australian former tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 14. With Geoff Masters, he won two Grand Slam doubles titles: in 1974 at the Australian Open and in 1977 at Wimbledon. He was also runner-up in 1976 at Wimbledon. He played in the Australian Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries, making it the world's largest annual ... team in 1971, 1972, 1976, 1978, and 1979. Career finals Singles 10 (5 wins / 5 losses) Doubles 41 (20 wins / 21 losses) References External links * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Case, Ross 1951 births Living people Australian Open (tennis) champions Australian male tennis players Sportspeople from Toowoomba Tennis players from Queensland Wimbledon champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Sedgman
Francis Arthur Sedgman (born 29 October 1927) is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player. Over the course of a three-decade career, Sedgman won five Grand Slam singles tournaments as an amateur as well as 9 Grand Slam doubles tournaments. He is one of only five tennis players all-time to win multiple career Grand Slams in two disciplines, alongside Margaret Court, Roy Emerson, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams. In 1951, he and Ken McGregor won the Grand Slam in men's doubles. Sedgman turned professional in 1953, and won the Wembley World Professional Indoor singles title in 1953 and 1958. He also won the Sydney Masters tournament in 1958, and the Melbourne Professional singles title in 1959. He won the Grand Prix de Europe Professional Tour in 1959. Sedgman was ranked as the world No. 1 amateur in 1950 by Harry Hopman and Ned Potter, in 1951 by Pierre Gillou, Hopman and Potter and in 1952 by Lance Tingay, Gillou, Hopman and Potter. Tennis de France magazine ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Coghlan
William Coghlan (born 6 March 1941) is a former tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player from Australia. He was active from 1958 to 1979 and won 22 career singles titles. Biography Coghlan won the junior title at the 1960 Australian Championships. A Melbourne real estate agent by profession, he made regular appearances at his home grand slam tournament, twice making the third round. He was a semi-final in the men's doubles at the 1967 Australian Championships, partnering David Power of the United States. He is a younger brother of tennis player Lorraine Coghlan. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Coghlan, Will Living people Australian male tennis players Australian Championships (tennis) junior champions Tennis players from Melbourne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Hammond (tennis)
Anthony Hammond (born 16 March 1950) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Hammond, a native of Perth, was a state Linton Cup representative and made the quarter-finals of the Western Australian Open in 1969. He featured in the singles main draw at six editions of the Australian Open without going past the first round. After leaving the tour he was head tennis pro at the Middletown Tennis Club in Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the .... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hammond, Anthony 1950 births Living people Australian male tennis players Tennis players from Perth, Western Australia Sportsmen from Western Australia 20th-century Australian sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Myers (tennis)
Stephen or Steven Myers may refer to: * Stephen Myers (engineer) * Stephen Myers (abolitionist) * Steven Myers (CEO) * Steven Myers (politician) * Steve Myers, American soccer goalkeeper {{hndis, Myers, Stephen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Durham (tennis)
William Durham is an Australian former professional tennis player. He was a junior doubles champion at the 1972 Australian Open. Durham reached a career high ranking of 202 while competing on the professional tour and made regular Australian Open appearance in the 1970s. He also qualified for the main draw of the 1973 Wimbledon Championships The 1973 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was scheduled to be held from Monday 25 June ..., where he had a first round win over Soviet Davis Cup player Sergei Likhachev, before losing his next match in five sets to Russell Simpson. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Durham, Bill Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian male tennis players Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles Australian Open (tennis) junior champions 20th-centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanaro N'Godrella
Wanaro N'Godrella (18 October 1949 – 26 May 2016) was a French tennis player who was active in the late 1960s and the 1970s. His best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the quarterfinals of the singles' event at the 1973 Australian Open in which he was defeated by Karl Meiler in four sets. In 1973 and 1974 he played a doubles match for the French Davis Cup team. He reached the highest singles ranking of No. 71 in October 1973. N'Godrella reached the second round of the singles' event at the Wimbledon Championships in 1972. In 1973 he defeated fifth-seeded Manuel Orantes in the second round of the 1973 French Open – Men's singles, singles event at the French Open. The center court at the ATP Challenger Tour event in his hometown of Nouméa is named for N'Godrella. Career finals Doubles (1 runner-up) References External links * * * French male tennis players New Caledonian male tennis players 1949 births 2016 deaths Sportspeople from Nouméa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan McDonald (tennis)
Allan McDonald (born 1 March 1951) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Biography McDonald, a Sydney born player, represented the Australian Junior Davis Cup team in the late 1960s. He won the boys' singles title at the 1969 Australian Open The 1969 Australian Open was the first Australian Open and the final Grand Slam tournament to allow both amateur and professionals. The tournament was played in Brisbane on Milton's grass courts between a men's field of 48 and a women's field o ... and partnered with Greg Perkins to win the boys' doubles event at the 1970 Australian Open. On the men's circuit he competed until 1975 but was unable to replicate his junior success. His best performance in a grand slam tournament came at the 1971 Wimbledon Championships, where he made the round of 16 in the mixed doubles, partnering Patti Hogan. He now runs a tennis school in the NSW Central Coast town of Toukley. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bartlett (tennis)
John Bartlett (born ''John David Bartlett''; 17 March 1948) is an Australian former tennis player who was a Davis Cup member and top ten player, in Australia in the 1970s. Career His career highlights include winning the "All Japan Indoors" in 1969 and the Egyptian Open Doubles with John Marks and twice qualifying for the ATP World Doubles Finals. He also has wins over many top players including Arthur Ashe. Bartlett, a right-handed player, was an original member of the ATP and in the 1970s an action photo of him playing was included in the International Hall Of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island. Bartlett was also the first Yonex contract Professional. After retiring from his tennis career, Bartlett has involved himself in the following ventures; Bartlett headed up a program for the ATP in 1979 to introduce prize money into the qualifying events in Europe. Partnered by his wife, they organised over $100,000 in prize money by switching the qualifying events to other towns 50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neale Fraser
Neale Andrew Fraser, (3 October 1933 – 2 December 2024) was an Australian champion tennis player. Fraser is the most recent man to have completed the triple crown (i.e. having won the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles titles at a Grand Slam tournament), which he did in 1959 and 1960 at the U.S. National Championships (now known as the US Open). He won the 1960 Wimbledon championships. Fraser was ranked world No. 1 amateur tennis player in 1959 and 1960 by Lance Tingay and Ned Potter. After his playing days were over, he was the non-playing captain of Australia's Davis Cup team for a record 24 years. Biography Neale Fraser was the son of barrister and politician Archibald Fraser. The young Fraser was taught by coach Bryan Slattery, and later won the Wimbledon singles in 1960 and the U.S. Championships singles in 1959 and 1960. He failed to win the Australian Championships, finishing as runner-up on three occasions (1957, 1959, and 1960) and held a championship poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
