1982 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Singles
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Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors
James Scott "Jimmy" Connors is an American former world no. 1 tennis player....

 defeated John McEnroe
John McEnroe
John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title...

 3–6 6–3 6–7 7–6 6–4 in the final to win the Gentlemen's Singles title at the 1982 Wimbledon Championships
1982 Wimbledon Championships
The 1982 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on :grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon in London in England...

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See also:
1982 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles
1982 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles
Martina Navratilova defeated Chris Evert 6-1 3-6 6-2 in the final to win the Ladies' Singles title at the 1982 Wimbledon Championships.See also:-Seeds:...

1982 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Doubles
1982 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Doubles
1982 Wimbledon Championships - Mixed Doubles

Seeds

The seeded players are listed below. Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors
James Scott "Jimmy" Connors is an American former world no. 1 tennis player....

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


  1.   John McEnroe
    John McEnroe
    John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title...

     (Finalist)

  2.   Jimmy Connors
    Jimmy Connors
    James Scott "Jimmy" Connors is an American former world no. 1 tennis player....

     (Champion)

  3.   Vitas Gerulaitis
    Vitas Gerulaitis
    Vytautas Kevin Gerulaitis was a Lithuanian–American professional tennis player. He is known for winning the men's singles title at one of the two Australian Open tournaments held in 1977. Gerulaitis won the tournament held in December, while Roscoe Tanner won the earlier January tournament...

     (Quarterfinalist)

  4.   Sandy Mayer
    Sandy Mayer
    Alexander "Sandy" Mayer is a former tennis player from the United States, who won ten titles in singles and twenty-four titles in doubles during his professional career. He was part of the winning tennis squad at Stanford University in 1973....

     (Third round)

  5.   Johan Kriek
    Johan Kriek
    Johan Kriek is a South African American professional male tennis player and founder of the Global Water Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to delivering clean water to the world's neediest communities. Kriek has won two Australian Opens and has reached the semi-finals at the French...

     (Quarterfinalist)

  6.   Gene Mayer
    Gene Mayer
    Gene Mayer is a former tennis player from the United States who won fourteen singles titles during his career.Mayer was born in Flushing, Queens, New York. He grew up in Wayne, New Jersey, and played tennis at Wayne Valley High School, where he went unbeaten in his two years on the tennis team...

     (Quarterfinalist)

  7.   Mats Wilander
    Mats Wilander
    Mats Wilander is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden. From 1982 through 1988, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , and one Grand Slam men's doubles title...

     (Fourth round)

  8.   Peter McNamara
    Peter McNamara
    Peter McNamara is a retired Australian tennis player.He won five singles and nineteen doubles titles during his professional career. A right-hander, McNamara reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 14 March 1983 when he became World number 7...

     (First round)



  1.   Andrés Gómez
    Andrés Gómez
    Andrés Gómez Santos is a former professional tennis player from Ecuador. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at the French Open in 1990.-Career:...

     (First round)

  2.   Yannick Noah
    Yannick Noah
    Yannick Noah is a former professional tennis player from France. He is best remembered for being the last French man to win the French Open in 1983, and as a highly-successful captain of France's Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams...

     (Withdrew before the tournament began)

  3.   Brian Teacher
    Brian Teacher
    Brian David Teacher is a 6' 3" right handed American former professional male tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking World No. 7 in 1981....

     (Quarterfinalist)

  4.   Mark Edmondson
    Mark Edmondson
    Mark Edmondson is a former professional Australian male tennis player....

     (Semifinalist)

  5.   Brian Gottfried
    Brian Gottfried
    Brian Edward Gottfried is a retired tennis player from the United States who won 25 singles titles and 54 doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest ranking on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour on June 19, 1977, when he became World No....

     (Second round)

  6.   Roscoe Tanner
    Roscoe Tanner
    Roscoe Tanner is an American former professional tennis player, who turned pro in 1972 and reached a career high world singles ranking of World No...

     (Fourth round)

  7.   Buster C. Mottram (Fourth round)

  8.   Steve Denton
    Steve Denton
    Steve Denton is a former professional tennis player for the ATP Tour. He is currently the head men's tennis coach at Texas A&M University....

     (Fourth round)


Key

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

Finals

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Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

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