1955 U.S. National Championships - Men's Singles
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Tony Trabert
Tony Trabert
Marion Anthony Trabert is a retired American tennis champion and long-time tennis author, TV commentator, instructor, and motivational speaker...

 defeated 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...

 9-7 6-3 6-3 in the final to win the Men's Singles title at the 1955 U.S. National Championships
1955 U.S. National Championships (tennis)
List of Champions of the 1955 U.S. National Championships :-Men's Singles: Tony Trabert defeated Ken Rosewall 9-7 6-3 6-3-Women's Singles: Doris Hart defeated Patricia Ward Hales 6-4, 6-2...

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See also:
1955 U.S. National Championships - Women's Singles

Seeds

The seeded players are listed below. Tony Trabert
Tony Trabert
Marion Anthony Trabert is a retired American tennis champion and long-time tennis author, TV commentator, instructor, and motivational speaker...

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


  1.   Tony Trabert
    Tony Trabert
    Marion Anthony Trabert is a retired American tennis champion and long-time tennis author, TV commentator, instructor, and motivational speaker...

     (Champion)

  2.   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...

     (Finalist)

  3.   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)

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

     (Semifinalist)

  5.   Ham Richardson (Quarterfinalist)

  6.   Kurt Nielsen
    Kurt Nielsen
    Kurt Nielsen was a Danish tennis player. He was born in Copenhagen, and is the only Danish tennis player ever to have played in a men's singles final in a Grand Slam tournament....

     (Third round)

  7.   Gilbert Shea (First round)

  8.   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:...

     (Fourth round)



  1.   Eddie Moylan (Fourth round)

  2.   Nicola Pietrangeli
    Nicola Pietrangeli
    Nicola "Nicky" Pietrangeli is a former tennis player from Italy. He is considered by many to be Italy's greatest-ever tennis champion....

     (Third round)

  3.   Arthur Larsen (Fourth round)

  4.   Enrique Morea
    Enrique Morea
    Enrique Morea was an Argentine tennis player.Morea won the mixed doubles title of the 1960 French Championships. He also won two gold medals at the inaugural men's tennis competition at the 1951 Pan American Games.Morea is the current president of the Asociación Argentina de Tenis .-References:...

     (Fourth round)

  5.   Tut Bartzen (Quarterfinalist)

  6.   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...

     (Fourth round)

  7.   Herbie Flam (Quarterfinalist)

  8.   Kosei Kamo (Second round)


Key

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

Final Eight

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Section 8

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