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Thankyou for viewing tennishistory.com.au. We try to keep the information as accurate as we understand. Please email us with any feedback, extra information, photos, stories etc. Please email us at [email protected] . We look forward to sharing your history on the site !!| Results Overview |
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Welcome to this section on Australian Singles Tennis Results. PLEASE NOTE UNDER “OTHER” (LINKS) THERE ARE SOME EXCELLENT SITES WHICH DELIVER PLAYER RESULTS IN THE GRAND SLAMS, DAVIS CUP and OTHER OS TOURNAMENTS. You are bound to find what you are looking for at one of them. What you will see in this section is the work of South Australian, Andrew Tasiopoulos who has spent countless hours poring over newspapers, association reports, club newsletters, results books etc. to develop these very important records for players and events from the 1880’s through to 2007. We at tennishistory.com.au thank Andrew for his permission to present this work on our site as a way of helping former players, families and tennis fans gain some knowledge into the way tennis evolved in Australia from the very early days. Country tournaments, Inter colonial matches and State competitions were well represented by many champion players of the time mixed with local and district champions. To many, some great players who were just a level below the recognised greats may be unheard of, yet you will find it fascinating to learn of champions who dominated their region for long periods or who enjoyed a rivalry with opponents where finals were often played off between the pair year after year. Each of the files is presented in Flash and you will notice that files can be searched. There are three files for men’s singles and women’s singles sorted alphabetically by event and player and chronologically. Viewing these files, please appreciate the level of effort that Andrew and we know of others, like Clive Oliver, have spent to actually find this often missing information. We hope that Tennis Australia finds a way to allocate funds to compensate and reward such efforts in order to continue the process to include doubles, mixed doubles and even pennant and association tennis. Perhaps a book about the History of tennis in Australia could be published in which these results could be included as a permanent record of achievement. It may not be a cheap exercise, however the numbers of players and clubs must surely represent a significant target market to justify such a project even if the financial outcome was a breakeven. We note with interest that Queensland have a “Century of Queensland Tennis”, ‘Tennis West’ for WA and no recent histories for NSW, Tasmania or Victoria except for some individual club productions. If you wish to view finals results for Australian players (and all others) in Grand Slam Events, we recommend you to visit this excellent search engine site. www.grandslamhistory.com For others as mentioned check out our links page. To view the Australian Championships records history please visit the Australian Open records page click here It enables name seaches back to the beginning of 1905. Here are the Australian Singles Winners of the Overseas GRAND SLAM Tournaments Wimbledon 1907 Norman Brookes (1st OS Player) 1965 Margaret Smith (Court) 1910 Anthony Wilding (NZ) 1970 Margaret Smith (Court)* 1911 Anthony Wilding (NZ) 1971 Evonne Goolagong (Cawley) 1912 Anthony Wilding (NZ) 1980 Evonne Goolagong (Cawley) 1913 Anthony Wilding (NZ) 1914 Norman Brookes 1919 Gerald Patterson 1922 Gerald Patterson 1933 Jack Crawford 1952 Frank Sedgman 1956 Lew Hoad 1957 Lew Hoad 1958 Ashley Cooper 1960 Neil Fraser 1961 Rod Laver 1962 Rod Laver* 1964 Roy Emerson 1965 Roy Emerson 1967 John Newcombe 1968 Rod Laver 1969 Rod Laver* 1970 John Newcombe 1971 John Newcombe 1987 Pat Cash 2002 Lleyton Hewitt French 1933 Jack Crawford 1962 Margaret Smith (Court) 1953 Ken Rosewall 1963 Lesley Turner Bowrey 1956 Lew Hoad 1964 Margaret Smith (Court) 1958 Mervyn Rose 1965 Lesley Turner Bowrey 1962 Rod Laver* 1960 Margaret Smith (Court) 1963 Roy Emerson 1970 Margaret Smith (Court)* 1965 Fred Stolle 1971 Evonne Goolagong (Cawley) 1966 Tony Roche 1973 Margaret Smith (Court) 1967 Roy Emerson 1968 Ken Rosewall 1969 Rod Laver* US Open 1951 Frank Sedgman 1962 Margaret Smith (Court) 1952 Frank Sedgman 1969 Margaret Smith (Court) 1956 Ken Rosewall 1970 Margaret Smith (Court)* 1957 Malcolm Anderson 1973 Margaret Smith (Court) 1958 Ashley Cooper 1959 Neale Fraser 1960 Neale Fraser 1961 Roy Emerson 1962 Rod Laver* 1964 Roy Emerson 1966 Fred Stolle 1967 John Newcombe 1969 Rod Laver* 1970 Ken Rosewall 1973 John Newcombe 1997 Pat Rafter 1998 Pat Rafter 2001 Lleyton Hewitt * Grand Slams Rod Laver 1962, 1969 Margaret Smith (Court) 1970 Anthony Wilding is listed here because NZ & Australia formed the Australasian Teams up to 1922. |
