1906 Australasian Championships (tennis)
Encyclopedia
The 1906 Australasian Championships (tennis) (now known as the Australian Open
) was a tennis
tournament played on Grass court
s in Christchurch
, New Zealand
the event is a part of the Grand Slam
. The tournament was held from 26 to 31 December.
Anthony Wilding def. Francis Fisher, 6–0, 6–4, 6–4.
Rodney Heath
/ Anthony Wilding def. C.C. Cox / Harry Parker
, 6–2, 6–4, 6–2.
Australian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...
) was a tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
tournament played on Grass court
Grass court
A grass court is one of the four different types of tennis court. Grass courts are made of rye grass in different compositions depending on the tournament...
s in Christchurch
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
the event is a part of the Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
. The tournament was held from 26 to 31 December.
Singles
Anthony Wilding def. Francis Fisher, 6–0, 6–4, 6–4.Doubles
Rodney HeathRodney Heath
----Rodney Heath was an Australian male tennis player.Heath was the men's singles champion at the inaugural Australasian Championships in 1905...
/
Anthony Wilding def. C.C. Cox / Harry ParkerHarry Parker (tennis)
Harry Parker was a New Zealand tennis player.Parker won the doubles title at the Australasian Championships, the future Australian Open, alongside Bill Gregg in 1907. He also reached two singles finals at the tournament in 1907 and 1913, and two doubles finals in 1906 and 1913.-Runner-up :-Winner...
, 6–2, 6–4, 6–2.