Roy Emerson

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Roy Emerson Tennis player
Roy Emerson
Nickname: Emmo
Nation: AustraliaAustralia Australia
Birthday: November 3, 1936
Size: 183 cm
Weight: 79 kg
1st professional season: 1968
Resignation: 1977
Playing hand: Right
singles
Career record: 183: 106
Career title: 3 ATP
Highest ranking: 12 (November 26 1973)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  12
Australian Open S (1961, 1963-1967)
French Open S (1963, 1967)
Wimbledon S (1964, 1965)
US Open S (1961, 1964)
Double
Career record: 204: 65
Career title: 20th
Highest ranking: 736 (November 26 1984)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  16
Australian Open S (1962, 1966, 1969)
French Open S (1960-1965)
Wimbledon S (1959, 1961, 1971)
US Open S (1959, 1960, 1965, 1966)
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open F (1956)
French Open F (1960)
Wimbledon -
US Open AF (1969)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Roy Stanley Emerson , AC (born November 3, 1936 in Blackbutt , Queensland ) is a retired Australian tennis player .

Roy Emerson grew up on a farm. However, his family moved to Brisbane , where he had better opportunities to practice tennis.

In 1961, Emerson won his first title at the Australian Championships (later called the Australian Open ) and then from 1963 to 1967 for five years in a row. In 1964 he won all Grand Slam titles except for the French championships and was number 1 among amateurs in the world in 1964 and 1965.

Known as "Emmo", he won two singles at Wimbledon and three doubles. At the French Open he won singles in 1963 and 1967 and won six times in a row in doubles from 1960 to 1965. At the US Open he was twice successful in singles and four times in doubles.

Emerson is the only male player to have won all singles and doubles titles in Grand Slam tournaments. He held the record of individual victories in Grand Slam tournaments until 2000, when Pete Sampras outstripped him. He won a total of 28 Grand Slam titles, including 16 wins in doubles. From the Australian Open in 1963 to the French Open in 1967, he won the record number of ten Grand Slam finals in a row. He also won the Davis Cup eight times with the Australian team , making him the most successful player in the tournament.

However, all of the single titles in the Grand Slam tournaments and 14 of the 16 double titles fell before the time of the so-called Open Era. From the moment that the professional players were also admitted to these tournaments, i.e. from the French Open in 1968, Emerson, who now had to compete with the sometimes much stronger professionals, never again won a Grand Slam tournament in an individual.

Record Grand Slam winner in men's singles
rank player title
1. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Roger Federer 20th
2. SpainSpain Rafael Nadal 19th
3. SerbiaSerbia Novak Đoković 17th
4th United StatesUnited States Pete Sampras 14th
5. AustraliaAustralia Roy Emerson 12
6th SwedenSweden Bjorn Borg 11
AustraliaAustralia Rod Laver
8th. United StatesUnited States Bill Tilden 10
As of February 2, 2020

In 1968 Roy Emerson became a professional tennis player himself, exactly in the year when professionals and amateurs were allowed to compete against each other again. He could not defend the title at the French Open, which he had won in 1967. In the quarterfinals, 31-year-old Emerson lost to Pancho Gonzales , who was already 40 years old at the time. Gonzales had already switched to the professional camp at the end of 1949 and was therefore not eligible to play in the Grand Slam tournaments from 1950 to early 1968. In the next few years, Emerson competed twelve times against Gonzales, the outstanding player of the 50s, and never won a single time. From 1968 onwards, Emerson, who won twelve titles in the seven previous years when the tournaments were not open to professional players, did not make it past the quarter-finals in a single Grand Slam tournament.

Emerson also had a clearly negative record against Rod Laver , the best player of the 1960s. As early as 1960 to 1962, Emerson lost 19 times in 29 matches against his fellow countryman, who was almost two years his junior. Laver then switched to the professional camp in 1963, so that Emerson no longer had to compete with him from 1963 to early 1968. From 1968 the two played against each other seven times in official ATP tournaments, of which Emerson lost five games. The two Australians often played against each other at other tournaments from 1968 to 1975. Overall, the balance from 1968 was: 29: 6 for Laver. If you consider that ten of Emerson's twelve individual Grand Slam titles fell during the time when Laver was not eligible to play as a professional, and all twelve during the time when Gonzales was not allowed to start, Emerson's successes have to be put into perspective. He was the world's best amateur in the mid-1960s, but he was never the best player in the world in any year.

Roy Emerson was inducted into the Hall of Fame of International Tennis in 1982. In 2019 he was named Companion of the Order of Australia .

Today he lives in Newport Beach , California and also has a house in Gstaad , Switzerland , where he holds a tennis camp every summer.

Grand Slam victories

  • Australian Open :
    • Singles - 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967
    • Doubles - 1962, 1966, 1969
  • French Open :
    • Singles - 1963, 1967
    • Doubles - 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
  • Wimbledon :
    • Singles - 1964, 1965
    • Doubles - 1959, 1961, 1971
  • US Open :
    • Singles - 1961, 1964
    • Doubles - 1959, 1960, 1965, 1966

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Emerson, Roy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emerson, Roy Stanley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Blackbutt , Queensland , Australia