1953 Australian Championships - Men's Singles

Ken Rosewall

Kenneth Robert Rosewall AM MBE is a former world top-ranking amateur and professional tennis player from Australia. He won 23 Majors including eight Grand Slam singles titles and before the Open Era a record fifteen Pro Slam titles . Rosewall won 9 slams in doubles with a career double grand slam...

defeated Mervyn Rose

Mervyn Rose

Mervyn Rose was an Australian male tennis player. He was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales and turned professional in 1959...

6-0 6-3 6-4 in the final to win the Men's Singles title at the 1953 Australian Championships

1953 Australian Championships (tennis)

The 1953 Australian Championships were held at Kooyong Stadium, Melbourne. Maureen Connolly won the women's singles, this was the first step towards the first Grand Slam by a woman.-Men's Singles: Ken Rosewall defeated Mervyn Rose 6-0 6-3 6-4...

Maureen Connolly defeated Julie Sampson 6-3 6-2 in the final to win the Women's Singles title at the 1953 Australian Championships.See also:-Seeds:...

Seeds

The seeded players are listed below. Ken Rosewall

Ken Rosewall

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

Mervyn Rose
Mervyn Rose
Mervyn Rose was an Australian male tennis player. He was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales and turned professional in 1959...

(Finalist)

Vic Seixas
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...

(Semifinalist)

Ken Rosewall
Ken Rosewall
Kenneth Robert Rosewall AM MBE is a former world top-ranking amateur and professional tennis player from Australia. He won 23 Majors including eight Grand Slam singles titles and before the Open Era a record fifteen Pro Slam titles . Rosewall won 9 slams in doubles with a career double grand slam...

(Champion)

Fausto Gardini (Second round)

Lew Hoad
Lew Hoad
Lewis Alan Hoad was a champion tennis player....

(Second round)

Ham Richardson (Quarterfinalist)

Geoffrey Brown (Quarterfinalist)

Straight Clark
Straight Clark
Louis Straight Clark was an American tennis player in the mid-20th Century. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa.A member of the U.S...

(Quarterfinalist)

Don Candy
Don Candy
Don Candy is an Australian Tennis player.Singles - French Championships: eighth-finals in 1956 and 1960.Australian Championships: quarter-finals in 1952 and 1959.-References:...

(Second round)

Rex Hartwig
Rex Hartwig
Rex Noel Hartwig was an Australian tennis player.-Wimbledon:He won the doubles in Wimbledon twice: In 1954 with Mervyn Rose and in 1955 with Lew Hoad.-Australian Championships:...

(Second round)

Ian Ayre
Ian Ayre
Ian Ayre , is a Scouse businessman and the current Managing Director of Liverpool Football Club.-Biography:Born in the Liverpool, he was educated at Litherland High School...

(Semifinalist)

Neale Fraser
Neale Fraser
Neale Andrew Fraser AO MBE is a former tennis player from Australia, born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of a Victorian judge. He began playing tennis at age 11 and attended St Kevin's College, Melbourne where he became Captain of Tennis at the school.Fraser won Wimbledon in 1960 and the US...

(Second round)

Key

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

Finals

Section 1

Section 2

External links

1953 Australian Championships on ITFtennis.com, the source for this draw

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