1938 Australian Championships (tennis)

The 1938 Australian Championships were the 32nd Championships held. They were held at Memorial Drive

Memorial Drive

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, Adelaide

Adelaide

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. Don Budge and Dororthy Cheney were the singles champions. This was Budge's first step towards the first ever Grand Slam.

Men's Singles

Don Budge

John Donald Budge was an American tennis champion who was a World No. 1 player for five years, first as an amateur and then as a professional...

defeated

John Bromwich

John Edward Bromwich was a male tennis player from Australia who, along with his countryman Vivian McGrath, was one of the first great players to use a two-handed forehand....

6-4 6-2 6-1

Women's Singles

Dorothy Bundy Cheney

Dorothy Cheney

Dorothy “Dodo” Bundy Cheney is the daughter of Tennis Hall of Famer May Sutton Bundy and U.S. doubles champion Tom Bundy . She has been an outstanding American tennis player from her youth into her 90s. She played most of her tennis at the Los Angeles Tennis Club , during the years that Perry T...

defeated

Dorothy Stevenson 6-3, 6-2

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