1939 Australian Championships (tennis)

List of Champions of the 1939 Australian Championships (now known as the Australian Open):

Men's Singles

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....

defeated

Adrian Quist

Adrian Karl Quist was an Australian male tennis player.-Biography:Adrian Quist was born in Medindie, South Australia. The tennis legend grew up in Adelaide and once played Harry Hopman, however he lost, only because he gave Hopman a head start...

6-4 6-1 6-3

Women's Singles

Emily Hood Westacott

Emily Hood Westacott , also known by her maiden name, Emily Hood, was an Australian tennis player in the 1930s.She won the Australian Championship singles in 1939, two years after losing in the final...

defeated

Nell Hall Hopman

Eleanor "Nell" Mary Hall Hopman was one of the female tennis players that dominated Australian tennis from 1930 through the early 1960s...

6-1, 6-2

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