Arthur Larsen defeated Herbie Flam 6-3 4-6 5-7 6-4 6-3 in the final to win the
Men's Singles title at the
1950 U.S. National ChampionshipsList of Champions of the 1950 U.S. National Championships :-Men's Singles: Art Larsen defeated Herb Flam 6-3 4-6 5-7 6-4 6-3-Women's Singles: Margaret Osborne duPont defeated Doris Hart 6-4, 6-3...
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See also:
- 1950 U.S. National Championships - Women's Singles
Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Arthur Larsen is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.
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 J.E. Patty (First round)
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 Frank SedgmanFrank Arthur Sedgman, born 29 October 1927, in Mont Albert, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, was a tennis player who was arguably the world No.1 in 1952. In his 1979 autobiography Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, included Sedgman in his list of the 21...
(Third round)
- Herbie Flam (Finalist)
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 Jaroslav DrobnýJaroslav Drobný was an amateur tennis champion as well as being an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovakian national team...
(Third round)
- Gardnar Mulloy
Gardnar Putnam Mulloy is a tennis player primarily known for playing in doubles matches with partner Billy Talbert. When he was the Tennis Coach of the University of Miami, he recruited Pancho Segura for the tennis team. Pancho won three straight NCAA Singles Titles in 1943, 1944, and 1945,...
(Semifinalist)
- 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....
(Third round)
- Tom Brown (Quarterfinalist)
- Ken McGregor
Kenneth Bruce McGregor was a former tennis player from Australia who won the Men's Singles title at the Australian Championships in 1952. He and his longtime doubles partner, Frank Sedgman, are generally considered to be one of the greatest men's doubles teams of all time...
(First round)
- Vic Seixas
Elias Victor Seixas, Jr. is an American former tennis player.Seixas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of Portuguese Sephardi Jewish ancestry. After serving in World War II, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where he was a member of Alpha Sigma of the Chi Psi...
(Third round)
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 Torsten JohanssonTorsten Johansson was a Swedish tennis player. who set a record by shutting out two opponents at Wimbledon in 1946. A 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 victory is a tennis rarity. Johansson played for the Royal Tennis Club in the early 1940s and won more than 100 national titles for the club, a record that still stands...
(Third round)
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- Arthur Larsen (Champion)
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 Felicisimo AmponFelicisimo Ampon was a tennis player from the Philippines. He is considered to be the greatest Filipino tennis player in history, and at only five feet tall, was once considered the best tennis player in the world, pound for pound.He represented the country in several Davis Cup competitions for...
(Third round)
- Earl Cochell
Earl Cochell , is the only tennis player ever barred for life by the United States Tennis Association.Cochell was ranked as high as No. 6 in the U.S. rankings before the 1951 U.S. Nationals...
(Quarterfinalist)
- George Worthington (Third round)
- Dick Savitt
Richard "Dick" Savitt is a 6’ 3" and 185-pound right-handed American male former tennis player.Savitt was ranked 2nd in the world in 1951. That year, at the age of 24, he won both the Wimbledon Singles Championship and the Australian Singles title...
(Semifinalist)
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 Tony Mottram (Second round)
- Bill Talbert
William Franklin "Billy" Talbert was an American tennis player and administrator.He was ranked in the U.S. Top 10 13 times between 1941 & 1954. He won nine Grand Slam doubles titles, and also reached the men’s doubles finals of the U.S. National Championship nine times. mainly with favorite...
(Quarterfinalist)
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 Philippe WasherPhilippe Washer is a former Belgian international tennis player. He competed in the Davis Cup a number of times, from 1946 to 1961.- External links :* at Tennis Archives...
(Second round)
- James Brink
James Brink is a former American tennis player.While at the University of Washington, Brink advanced to the NCAA semifinals in singles in 1948, and then teamed with Fred Fisher to win the NCAA doubles championship in 1949....
(Third round)
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 Gustavo Palafox (First round)
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Key
- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild Card
- LL = Lucky Loser
- r. = retired
Final Eight
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
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