1951 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Singles

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...

defeated Ken McGregor

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...

6-4 6-4 6-4 in the final to win the Gentlemen's Singles title at the 1951 Wimbledon Championships

1951 Wimbledon Championships

-Men's Singles: Dick Savitt defeated Ken McGregor 6-4 6-4 6-4-Women's Singles: Doris Hart defeated Shirley Fry Irvin 6-1, 6-0...

1951 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles

Doris Hart defeated Shirley Fry 6–1 6–0 in the final to win the Ladies' Singles title at the 1951 Wimbledon Championships.See also:-Seeds:The seeded players are listed below...

Seeds

The seeded players are listed below. Dick Savitt

Dick Savitt

is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.

Frank Sedgman
Frank Sedgman
Frank 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...

(Quarterfinalist)

Jaroslav Drobný
Jaroslav Drobný
Jaroslav Drobný was an amateur tennis champion as well as being an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovakian national team...

(Third round)

Arthur Larsen (Quarterfinalist)

J.E. Patty (Second round)

Herbie Flam (Semifinalist)

Dick Savitt
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...

(Champion)

Ken McGregor
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...

(Finalist)

Eric Sturgess
Eric Sturgess
Eric William Sturgess was a South African male tennis player. Eric Sturgess attended Parktown Boys' High School in Johannesburg...

(Semifinalist)

Gardnar Mulloy
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,...

(Third round)

Lennart Bergelin
Lennart Bergelin
Lennart Bergelin was a Swedish tennis player and coach. As a player, for AIK, Bergelin won nine Swedish championship singles titles between 1945 and 1955, and the French Open doubles title in 1948. Bergelin is best known for his work with Björn Borg, whom he trained between 1971 and 1983, helping...

(Quarterfinalist)

Key

Q = Qualifier
WC = Wild Card
LL = Lucky Loser
r. = retired

Final Eight

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

External links

1951 Wimbledon Championships on ITFtennis.com, the source for this draw

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