- John Newcombe
John David Newcombe AO OBE (born May 23, 1944 in Sydney, Australia) is a former World No. 1 tennis champion. A natural athlete, as a boy Newcombe played several sports until devoting himself to tennis. He was the Australian junior champion in 1961, 1962 and 1963 and became a member of Australia's Davis Cup winning team in 1964. He won his first Grand Slam major in 1965 by taking the Australian Championships doubles title with fellow Australian Tony Roche. - Maureen Connolly
Maureen Catherine ("Little Mo") Connolly (September 17, 1934 - June 21, 1969) was an American tennis player who was the first woman to win the Grand Slam. Connolly was born in San Diego, California, United States. As a child, she loved horseback riding, but her mother was unable to pay the cost of riding lessons. So, she took up the game of tennis. A natural, with tremendous power and accuracy from the baseline, … - Doris Hart
Doris Hart (born on June 2, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American tennis champion in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles. As a child, she suffered from osteomyelitis, which resulted in a permanently impaired right leg. She started playing tennis when she was 10 years old, greatly encouraged by her brother Bud. Hart's first Grand Slam title was in women's doubles at Wimbledon in 1947, when she was still a student at the University of Miami (Florida). - Tony Trabert
Marion Anthony (Tony) Trabert (born August 16, 1930 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a retired American tennis champion and longtime tennis author, TV commentator, instructor, and motivation speaker. In his 1979 autobiography Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, included Trabert in his list of the 21 greatest players of all time. - Shirley Fry
Shirley June Fry Irvin (June 30, 1927) was an American female tennis player who was born in Akron, Ohio, United States. Irvin is one of a dozen persons to have won each Grand Slam singles tournament at least once during the person's career. She also is one of only five persons to have won each Grand Slam tournament in same-sex doubles as well. The others are Doris Hart, Margaret Smith Court, Martina Navratilova, and Roy Emerson. - Judy Tegart
Judy Tegart Dalton (born December 12, 1937) was an Australian tennis player who won nine Grand Slam doubles titles during her career. She won at least one women's doubles title at each Grand Slam tournament, a "Career Grand Slam." Five of her doubles titles were in partnership with Margaret Smith Court. Dalton was the losing finalist in ten Grand Slam doubles tournaments. Dalton's best result in singles was reaching the final at Wimbledon in 1968, … - Christine Truman
Christine Truman Janes, MBE, (born on January 16, 1941 in Woodford Green, England), is a female former tennis player from the United Kingdom. The British junior champion in 1956 and 1957, Janes made her Wimbledon debut in 1957 at age 16 and reached the semifinals, where she lost to Althea Gibson. In 1958, Janes caused a sensation by defeating Gibson, the Wimbledon champion, … - Owen Davidson
"'"' (born October 4, 1943 in Melbourne) was a professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s. Partnering Billie Jean King, he managed to win eight grand slam mixed doubles titles. Davidson was one of very few to win a calendar year slam for mixed doubles, when he won the Australian Championships, French Championships, Wimbledon and the U.S. Championships all in the same year-1967. - Nancy Richey
Nancy Richey (born August 23, 1942 in San Angelo, Texas, United States) is a former tennis player from the U.S. During her career, she won two Grand Slam singles titles (1967 Australian Championships and 1968 French Open) and four Grand Slam women's doubles titles (1965 U.S. Championships and 1966 Australian, Wimbledon and U.S. Championships). She was ranked the World No. 2 in 1969. - Daphne Akhurst
Daphne Jessie Akhurst Cozens (born April 22, 1903, in Ashfield, Sydney, New South Wales - died January 9, 1933, in Sydney) was an Australian tennis player. Cozens won the women's singles title at the Australian Championships five times, in 1925, 1926, 1928, 1929, and 1930. She ranks third on the list of most women's singles titles at the Australian Championships, behind only Margaret Smith Court with eleven titles and Nancye Wynne Bolton with six titles. - Lesley Turner Bowrey
Lesley Turner Bowrey (born August 16, 1942) is an Australian female tennis player. She was born in Trangie, New South Wales. Bowrey won 13 Grand Slam titles during her career: two in singles, seven in women's doubles, and four in mixed doubles. She lost in the final of 14 other Grand Slam events. Bowrey twice won the singles title at the French Championships. In 1963, she defeated Ann Haydon Jones in the final, and in 1965, she defeated Margaret Smith Court in the final. - Margaret Osborne Dupont
Margaret Evelyn Osborne duPont (born on March 4, 1918, in Joseph, Oregon, United States) is a former American female tennis player. DuPont won a total of 37 singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles, which places her fourth on the all-time list despite never entering the Australian Championships. She won 25 of her Grand Slam titles at the U.S. Championships. DuPont teamed with Louise Brough Clapp to win 20 Grand Slam women's doubles titles. - Angela Mortimer
Florence Angela Margaret Mortimer Barrett (April 21, 1932) was a British female tennis player. She was born in Plymouth, Devon, England. Barrett won three Grand Slam singles titles during her career. She defeated Dorothy Head Knode in the final of the 1955 French Championships 2-6, 7-5, 10-8. Barrett defeated Lorraine Coghlan in the final of the 1958 Australian Championships 6-3, 6-4. And Barrett defeated Christine Truman Janes 4-6, 6-4, … - Nancye Wynne Bolton
Nancye Wynne Bolton (December 2, 1916 - November 9, 2001) was a female tennis player from Australia. She is best remembered for winning the women's singles title six times at the Australian Championships, second only to Margaret Smith Court who won 11 titles. Bolton won a total of 20 titles at the Australian Championships, second only to Court's 21 titles. According to most sources, Bolton finished 1938, 1947, and 1948 ranked in the world top 10. - Lorraine Coghlan
Lorraine Coghlan Green (born September 23, 1937) was a female tennis player from the state of Victoria in Australia. Green teamed with Bob Howe to win the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1958. Green and Howe were the runner-ups in mixed doubles at the 1958 French Championships. In singles, Green was the runner-up at the 1958 Australian Championships, losing to Angela Mortimer Barrett 6-3, 6-4. - Renee Schuurman
Renee Schuurman Haygarth (October 26, 1939 - 2001) was a female tennis player from South Africa who won five Grand Slam women's doubles titles and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. Haygarth teamed with fellow South African Sandra Reynolds Price to win four Grand Slam women's doubles titles. They won the 1959 Australian Championships and the 1959, 1961, and 1962 French Championships. In addition, they were the runner-ups at Wimbledon in 1960 and 1962. - Sandra Reynolds
Sandra Reynolds Price (born March 4, 1939) is a tennis player from South Africa who won four Grand Slam women's doubles championships and one Grand Slam mixed doubles championship. Price's best Grand Slam singles result occurred when she reached the 1960 Wimbledon final, losing to Maria Bueno 8-6, 6-0. She was the runner-up at the 1959 U.S. Clay Court Championships, losing to Sally Moore in the final. Price won three consecutive German Championships, in 1960, 1961, … - Margaret Molesworth
Maud Margaret 'Mall' Molesworth (1894 - July 9 1985) (nee Mutch) was a tennis player from Queensland, Australia who won the inaugural Australian Championships women's singles title in 1922. She won her first major tennis title in 1914 - the Queensland ladies doubles. For much of the next five years, sporting contests in Australia were cancelled due to World War I. Molesworth won tennis championships in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, … - Esna Boyd
Esna Boyd Robertson (1901-1962), an Australian tennis player, reached seven consecutive women's singles finals at the Australian Championships from 1922 through 1928. She won one of those finals, defeating Sylvia Lance Harper in 1927. Robertson participated in the first women's singles final at the Australian Championships in 1922, against fellow Australian Margaret Molesworth. - Joan Hartigan
Joan Hartigan Bathurst (born on June 6, 1912 in Sydney, Australia - died on August 31, 2000) was a female tennis player from Australia. Bathurst won the singles title at the Australian Championships three times and was a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 1934 (losing to Helen Jacobs) and 1935 (losing to Helen Wills Moody). Bathurst three times reached the women's doubles final at the Australian Championships, in 1933, 1934, and 1940. - Dorothy Round Little
Dorothy Edith Round Little (July 13, 1908 - November 12, 1982 in Kidderminster, England) was a British female tennis player. She was born in Dudley, Worcestershire, England. Little was a rival of Helen Wills Moody and won the singles title at Wimbledon in 1934 and 1937, when Moody was absent, and the Australian Championships in 1935, which Moody never played. - Rodney Heath
Rodney Heath (June 15, 1884, died October 6, 1936) was an Australian male tennis player. Heath was the men's singles champion at the inaugural Australian Championships in 1905, and won again, five years later in 1910. - James Anderson
James Outram Anderson (born September 17, 1895 in Enfield, New South Wales - died December 23, 1973 in Gosford, New South Wales) was an Australian tennis player. He is best remembered for his three victories at his home tournament: the Australian Championships in 1922, '24 and '25. Anderson also won the doubles tournament at the 1922 Wimbledon Championships in London. - Mary Carter Reitano
Mary Carter Reitano (born November 29, 1934) was a female tennis player from Australia. She won the singles title at the 1956 and 1959 Australian Championships and failed to reached the semifinals there only once in nine attempts. She teamed with Margaret Smith Court to win the women's doubles title there in 1961. Reitano teamed with three different partners to be the runner-up in women's doubles at the 1956, 1959, and 1962 Australian Championships. - Butch Buchholz
Earl "Butch" Buchholz, Jr., (born September 16 1940, in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former professional tennis player from the United States who was one of the game's top players in the late-1950s and early-1960s. Buchholz won the boy's singles title at Wimbledon and Roland Garros in 1958, and at the Australian Championships in 1959. Buchholz was ranked the World No. 5 player in 1960, and was ranked four times in the US Top 10. - Martin Mulligan
Martin "Marty" Mulligan is a former tennis player from Australia. He is best remembered for reaching the men's singles final at Wimbledon in 1962, where he was defeated by fellow-Australian Rod Laver 6-2, 6-2, 6-1. Mulligan was born on 18 October 1940, in the Marrickville suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. In 1958, he won the boy's singles title at the Australian Championships. He was runner-up in the men's doubles at the Australian Championships in 1961. - Carole Caldwell Graebner
Carole Caldwell Graebner (born June 24, 1943) was an American tennis player. She was ranked in the U.S. Top 10 in singles from 1961 through 1965 and again in 1967. She was ranked U.S. No. 1 in doubles in 1963. - Nell Hall Hopman
Eleanor "Nell" Mary Hall Hopman (born March 19, 1909 in Sydney, Australia - died January 10, 1968 in Hawthorn, Australia) was one of the female tennis players that dominated Australian tennis from 1930 through the early 1960s. She was the first wife of Harry Hopman, the coach and captain of 22 Australian Davis Cup teams. Hopman teamed with her husband to win four mixed doubles titles at the Australian Championships (1930, 1936, 1937, and 1939). - Marjorie Cox Crawford
Marjorie Cox Crawford was a female tennis player from Australia who reached at least the singles quarterfinals at the Australian Championships seven out of the nine times she played the event. Her best result was a runner-up finish in 1931, losing to Coral McInnes Buttsworth 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. Crawford teamed with Buttsworth in 1932 to win the women's doubles title at the Australian Championships. - Sylvia Lance Harper
Sylvia Lance Harper (born in October 1895) was a female tennis player from Australia who won the singles title at the 1924 Australian Championships. She reached the singles final there two other times, in 1927, losing to Esna Boyd Robertson, and in 1930, losing to Daphne Akhurst Cozens. Harper won the women's doubles title at the Australian Championships three consecutive years. In 1923, her partner was Robertson, and in 1924 and 1925, her partner was Cozens. - Louise Bickerton
Louise Bickerton was a female tennis player from Australia who won the women's doubles title at the 1927, 1929, and 1931 Australian Championships. She also won the mixed doubles title at the 1935 edition of those championships. She was the runner-up in singles in 1929 and in women's doubles in 1935 at those championships. - Juan Gisbert
Juan Gisbert, Sr. (born April 5, 1942, in Barcelona, Spain) played amateur and professional tennis in the 1960s and 1970s. He was ranked as high as No. 32 in the world in singles on the ATP Rankings (achieving that ranking on April 8, 1975). He won one singles title and reached the finals at the Australian Championships in 1968 and Cincinnati in 1971. - Pat O'Hara Wood
Hector ("Pat") O'Hara Wood (born April 30, 1891 - died December 3, 1961) was an Australian male tennis player, who was born in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. He is best known for his two victories at the Australian championships in 1920 and '23. He died in 1961, aged seventy in Richmond. His brother Arthur O'Hara-Wood was a tennis player too and won the Australian championships in 1914. - Joyce Fitch
Joyce Fitch Rymer was a tennis player from Australia who reached the women's singles final of the 1946 Australian Championships, losing to Nancye Wynne Bolton 6-4, 6-4. She teamed with Mary Bevis Hawton to win the women's doubles title at the 1946 Australian Championships, defeating Bolton and Thelma Coyne Long in the final 9-7, 6-4. Rymer and Hawton reached the women's doubles final at the 1947 and 1951 Australian Championships, losing both years to the Bolton-Long team. - Edgar Moon
Edgar "Gar" Moon (December 3, 1904 in Forest Hill, Australia - May 26 1976) was a former tennis player from Australia. He's best known for winning the 1930 Australian Championships men's singles title. He also won the 1932 men's doubles title with Jack Crawford. He won all three Men's titles at the Australian Championships. Moon won his first national title at the 1929 Open when he teamed up with Daphne Akhurst to win the Mixed Doubles championship. - Marie Toomey
Marie Toomey was a tennis player from Australia who reached the women's singles final of the 1948 Australian Championships, losing to Nancye Wynne Bolton 6-3, 6-1. Toomey teamed with Doris Hart to reach the women's doubles final of the 1949 Australian Championships, losing to Bolton and Thelma Coyne Long 6-0, 6-1. - Horace Rice
Horace Rice is a former Australian tennis player. He's best known for winning the men's singles title at the 1907 Australian Championships. In 1915, Rice won the men's doubles title at the Australian Championships. He teamed up with Clarence Todd. - Rhys Gemmell
Rhys Gemmell is a former tennis player from Australia. He's best known for winning the 1921 Australian Championships men's singles title. In the same year, he also won the men's doubles title, partnering Stanley Eaton. - Coral Buttsworth
Coral McInnes Buttsworth was a female tennis player from Australia who won the singles title at the Australian Championships in 1931 and 1932 and the women's doubles title there in 1932. Buttsworth was the only multiple winner of the singles title at the Australian Championships who never won a state singles title. A strong, thick-set woman from Sydney, she was addicted to chopping the ball, with her drop shot being magnificent, and was extremely quick around the court. - Ernie Parker
Ernie F. Parker (born November 5 1883 in Perth, Australia - died May 3 1918 in France during World War I) was a former Australian male tennis player. He's best rememberd for winning the 1913 Australian Championships men's singles title. He also won the 1909 (partnering J. Keane) and 1913 (partnering Alf Hedeman) Australian Championships doubles titles.
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