Wimbledon Championships 1962

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◄ Wimbledon Championships 1962 ►
Date: June 25 - July 6, 1962
Edition: 76th  Wimbledon Championships
Place: Church Road, London
Covering: race
Defending champion
Men's singles : AustraliaAustralia Rod Laver
Ladies singles : United KingdomUnited Kingdom Angela Mortimer
Men's double : AustraliaAustralia Roy Emerson Neale Fraser
AustraliaAustralia 
Ladies doubles : United StatesUnited States Karen Hantze-Susman Billie Jean King
United StatesUnited States 
Mixed : AustraliaAustralia Lesley Turner Fred Stolle
AustraliaAustralia 
winner
Men's singles : AustraliaAustralia Rod Laver
Ladies singles : United StatesUnited States Karen Hantze-Susman
Men's double : South Africa 1961South Africa Bob Hewitt Fred Stolle
AustraliaAustralia 
Ladies doubles : United StatesUnited States Billie Jean King Karen Hantze-Susman
United StatesUnited States 
Mixed : United StatesUnited States Margaret Osborne-duPont Neale Fraser
AustraliaAustralia 
Grand Slams 1962

The 76th edition of the Wimbledon Championships took place in 1962 on the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Church Road.

For the second time after 1957, Queen Elizabeth II attended the tournament and held the awards ceremony.

Men's singles

Rod Laver defended his title. In the final he beat his compatriot Martin Mulligan in three sets.

Ladies singles

Karen Hantze-Susman defeated Věra Suková in the women's final and won her only individual title in a Grand Slam tournament.

Men's doubles

Bob Hewitt and Fred Stolle were successful in men's doubles .

Ladies doubles

Billie Jean King and Karen Hantze-Susman won the women's double competition. Karen Hantze

Mixed

Margaret Osborne-duPont and Neale Fraser won the mixed competition .

source

  • J. Barrett: Wimbledon: The Official History of the Championships. Harper Collins Publishers, London 2001, ISBN 0-00-711707-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barrett (2001), p. 4.