AUSTRALIAN TENNIS
 
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 Australian tennis stars in the Menzies Era included:

  • Margaret CourtMargaret Court (born Margaret Smith in 1942 in Albury)
    Margaret Court was Australian singles champion 10 times (1960-66, 69-71)
    She was the Wimbledon singles champion 3 times (1963, 65 & 70)
    the French singles champion 4 times and
    the US singles champion 6 times (1962, 65, 68, 69, 70 & 73)
    She achieved the Grand Slam# in 1970 (Only two other women, Maureen Connelly in 1953 and Steffi Graf in 1988, have achieved a Grand Slam.)
      
  • Roy Emerson (born 1936 in Blackbutt, Queensland)
    Roy Emerson was the Australian singles champion six times (1961 & 1963 to 67) and doubles champion three times
    He was the US singles champion twice (1963 & 67) and doubles champion four times,
    the French singles champion twice (1963 & 67) and doubles champion six times consecutively (from 1960 to 65)
    the Wimbledon singles champion twice (1964 & 65) and doubles champion twice.
    He holds the record for greatest number of singles victories in Davis Cup matches (11) and the number of Grand Slam singles championships (12).
      
  • Lew Hoad (born 1934 in Sydney)
    Lew Hoad won the Australian singles championship in 1956 & 57. and doubles championship in 1953 & 56.
    He was the Wimbledon singles champion in 1956 & 57 and doubles champion in 1953, 56 & 57.
    the French singles champion in 1956 and
    the US doubles champion in 1956.
    In 1957, he turned turned professional*.
    He retired from competition and became a coach in 1967 because of back injury.
    Lew Hoad died in 1994.
     
  • Rod LaverRod Laver (born 1938 in Rockhampton, Queensland))
    "Rocket" Rod Laver won the Australian singles campionship in 1962 and the doubles four times (1959, 60, 61 & 69),
    the US singles championship (1962 & 69),
    the French singles championship twice (1962 & 69) and
    the Wimbledon singles championship 4 times (1961, 62, 68 & 69)
    He achieved the Grand Slam# twice (1962 & 69) (Only one other man, Don Budge in 1939, has achieved a Grand Slam)
    (He turned professional in 1962*)
    Rod Laver retired from competition in 1975.
      
  • Ken Rosewall (born 1934 in Sydney)
    Ken Roasewall was Australian singles champion twice (1953 & 71) and doubles champion three times (1953, 56 & 72),
    French singles champion twice (1953 & 68) and
    US singles champion twice twice (1956 & 70)
    He was runnner-up in Wimbledon three times and won the doubles twice ((1953 & 56)
    Ken Rosewall turned professional in 1958* and retired in 1971.
     

* Open tennis was introduced in 1968. Before that national championships and the Davis Cup competition were restricted to amateur players.

# The Grand Slam is achieved by winning the four major singles championships (the Australian, French, British (Wimbledon) and US) in a single year.

  

 

   

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