Wimbledon Championships 1967

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◄ Wimbledon Championships 1967 ►
Date: June 26 - July 7, 1967
Edition: 81st  Wimbledon Championships
Place: Church Road, London
Covering: race
Defending champion
Men's singles : Spain 1945Spain Manuel Santana
Ladies singles : United StatesUnited States Billie Jean King
Men's double : AustraliaAustralia Ken Fletcher John Newcombe
AustraliaAustralia 
Ladies doubles : Brazil 1960Brazil Maria Bueno Nancy Richey
United StatesUnited States 
Mixed : AustraliaAustralia Margaret Smith Ken Fletcher
AustraliaAustralia 
winner
Men's singles : AustraliaAustralia John Newcombe
Ladies singles : United StatesUnited States Billie Jean King
Men's double : South Africa 1961South Africa Bobb Hewitt Frew McMillan
South Africa 1961South Africa 
Ladies doubles : United StatesUnited States Rosemary Casals Billie Jean King
United StatesUnited States 
Mixed : AustraliaAustralia Owen Davidson Billie Jean King
United StatesUnited States 
1967 Grand Slams

The 81st edition of the Wimbledon Championships took place in 1967 on the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Church Road. A new record was set with a total of 301,896 spectators.

Billie Jean King was the first player since Suzanne Lenglen in 1925 to win singles, doubles and mixed in one year. She only gave two sets - one in double and one in mixed.

It was the last Wimbledon Championships where only amateurs were allowed. After the tournament, a tournament for professionals only (the Wimbledon World Professional Championships ) was held on the grounds in August 1967 , which was broadcast in color for the first time by the BBC and met with great interest. In December, the Board of Directors of the All England Club decided, as the first organizer of a Grand Slam tournament, to admit professional players to the regular Wimbledon Championships the following year. In February 1968 the International Tennis Federation abolished the amateur regulation as far as possible.

Men's singles

In the men's category, only two seeded players made it to the quarter-finals; last year's winner Manuel Santana , who was number 1 , has already lost his first match. Eventually, John Newcombe won his first of three individual titles at Wimbledon. In the final, he clearly beat the German Wilhelm Bungert in three sets.

Ladies singles

Billie Jean King defended her title. Sis prevailed in the final against Ann Haydon-Jones in straight sets,

Men's doubles

In the men's doubles, the South Africans Bob Hewitt and Frew McMillan won .

Ladies doubles

Rosemary Casals and Billie Jean King won the women's doubles .

Mixed

In the mixed Owen Davidson and Billie Jean King were victorious.

source

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ J. Barrett: Wimbledon: The Official History of the Championships. HarperCollins Publishers, London 2001, p. 5.
  2. ^ L. Tingay: One Hundred Years of Wimbledon. Guinness World Records Ltd, London 1977, ISBN 0-900424-71-0 , p. 228.