1956 Australian Championships (tennis)

List of Champions of the 1956 Australian Championships (now known as the Australian Open):

Men's Singles

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

defeated

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...

6-4 3-6 6-4 7-5

Women's Singles

Mary Carter Reitano

Mary Carter Reitano is a female former tennis player from Australia.Reitano won the singles title at the 1956 and 1959 Australian Championships and failed to reached the semifinals there only once in nine attempts. She teamed with Margaret Court to win the women's doubles title there in 1961...

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:...

3-6, 6-2, 9-7

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