1955 Australian Championships (tennis)

List of Champions of the 1955 Australian Championships (now known as the Australian Open):

Men's Singles

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

Lew Hoad

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

9-7 6-4 6-4

Women's Singles

Beryl Penrose defeated

Thelma Coyne Long

Thelma Dorothy Coyne Long was one of the female tennis players who dominated Australian tennis from the mid-1930s to the 1950s.-Tennis career:...

6-4, 6-3

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