In the 1951 Wimbledon Championships – Gentlemen's Singles tennis competition,
Dick Savitt
Richard Savitt (March 4, 1927 – January 6, 2023) was an American tennis player.
In 1951, at the age of 24, he won both the Australian and Wimbledon men's singles championships. Savitt was mostly ranked world No. 2 the same year behind fellow ...
defeated
Ken McGregor
Kenneth Bruce McGregor (2 June 1929 – 1 December 2007) was an Australian tennis player from Adelaide who won the Men's Singles title at the Australian Championships in 1952. He and his longtime doubles partner, Frank Sedgman, are generally ...
in the final, 6–4, 6–4, 6–4 to win the title.
He was the second ever American to win the Wimbledon and Australian tournaments in the same year. Number 4 seed
Budge Patty
Edward John Patty (February 11, 1924 – October 4, 2021), better known as Budge Patty, was an American world no. 1 tennis player whose career spanned a period of 15 years after World War II. He won two Grand Slam singles titles in 1950. He wa ...
was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to another American, the unseeded 17-year-old
.
Progress of the competition
After defeating Patty, Richardson went out in the fourth round, losing to another unseeded player, the Brazilian
Armando Vieira
Armando Vieira (11 April 1923 – 14 January 2010) was a Brazilian tennis player. His best achievement was reaching quarterfinals of the 1951 Wimbledon Championships.
In June 1951 he won the singles title at the Dutch International Championshi ...
; this was Vieira's most successful Wimbledon, but he lost in the quarterfinals to South Africa's
Eric Sturgess
Eric William Sturgess (10 May 1920 – 14 January 2004) was a South African male tennis player and winner of six Grand Slam doubles titles. He also reached the singles final of a Grand Slam tournament three times but never won. Sturgess was ra ...
, a former world number one,
[United States Lawn Tennis Association (1972). ''Official Encyclopedia of Tennis'' (First Edition), p. 426.] in straight sets. McGregor reached the final by defeating Sturgess in the semifinals.
Seeds
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 tourname ...
''(quarterfinals)''
Jaroslav Drobný
Jaroslav Drobný (; 12 October 1921 – 13 September 2001) was a world No. 1 amateur tennis and ice hockey champion. He left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1959, w ...
''(third round)''
Art Larsen ''(quarterfinals)''
Budge Patty
Edward John Patty (February 11, 1924 – October 4, 2021), better known as Budge Patty, was an American world no. 1 tennis player whose career spanned a period of 15 years after World War II. He won two Grand Slam singles titles in 1950. He wa ...
''(second round)''
Herbie Flam ''(semifinals)''
Dick Savitt
Richard Savitt (March 4, 1927 – January 6, 2023) was an American tennis player.
In 1951, at the age of 24, he won both the Australian and Wimbledon men's singles championships. Savitt was mostly ranked world No. 2 the same year behind fellow ...
(champion)
Ken McGregor
Kenneth Bruce McGregor (2 June 1929 – 1 December 2007) was an Australian tennis player from Adelaide who won the Men's Singles title at the Australian Championships in 1952. He and his longtime doubles partner, Frank Sedgman, are generally ...
''(final)''
Eric Sturgess
Eric William Sturgess (10 May 1920 – 14 January 2004) was a South African male tennis player and winner of six Grand Slam doubles titles. He also reached the singles final of a Grand Slam tournament three times but never won. Sturgess was ra ...
''(semifinals)''
Gardnar Mulloy
Gardnar Putnam "Gar" Mulloy (November 22, 1913 – November 14, 2016) was a U.S. No. 1 tennis player primarily known for playing in doubles matches with partner Billy Talbert. He was born in Washington, D.C., and centenarian, turned 100 in Novem ...
''(third round)''
Lennart Bergelin ''(quarterfinals)''
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
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Men's Singles
Wimbledon Championship by year – Men's singles