1947 U.S. National Championships - Men's Singles
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Jack Kramer defeated Frank Parker
Frank Parker
----Frank "Frankie" Andrew Parker was an American male tennis player. He was coached by Mercer Beasley....

 4-6 2-6 6-1 6-0 6-3 in the final to win the Men's Singles title at the 1947 U.S. National Championships
1947 U.S. National Championships (tennis)
List of Champions of the 1947 U.S. National Championships :-Men's Singles: Jack Kramer defeated Frank Parker 4-6 2-6 6-1 6-0 6-3-Women's Singles: Louise Brough defeated Margaret Osborne duPont 8-6, 4-6, 6-1...

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See also:
1947 U.S. National Championships - Women's Singles

Seeds

The seeded players are listed below. Jack Kramer is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


  1.   Jack Kramer (Champion)

  2.   John Bromwich
    John Bromwich
    John Edward Bromwich was a male tennis player from Australia who, along with his countryman Vivian McGrath, was one of the first great players to use a two-handed forehand....

     (Semifinalist)

  3.   Frank Parker
    Frank Parker
    ----Frank "Frankie" Andrew Parker was an American male tennis player. He was coached by Mercer Beasley....

     (Finalist)

  4.   Jaroslav Drobný
    Jaroslav Drobný
    Jaroslav Drobný was an amateur tennis champion as well as being an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovakian national team...

     (Semifinalist)

  5.   Tom Brown (Quarterfinalist)

  6.   Dinny Pails
    Dinny Pails
    Dennis "Dinny" Pails was a former Australian tennis champion.Pails won the men's singles championship at the Australian Championships tennis tournament in 1947. Pails, an Australian who was born in Great Britain, defeated John Bromwich in the final in five sets: 4–6, 6–4, 3–6, 7–5, 8–6...

     (Fourth round)

  7.   Gardnar Mulloy
    Gardnar Mulloy
    Gardnar Putnam Mulloy is a tennis player primarily known for playing in doubles matches with partner Billy Talbert. When he was the Tennis Coach of the University of Miami, he recruited Pancho Segura for the tennis team. Pancho won three straight NCAA Singles Titles in 1943, 1944, and 1945,...

     (Quarterfinalist)

  8.   Colin Long (Fourth round)

  9.   Bill Talbert
    Bill Talbert
    William Franklin "Billy" Talbert was an American tennis player and administrator.He was ranked in the U.S. Top 10 13 times between 1941 & 1954. He won nine Grand Slam doubles titles, and also reached the men’s doubles finals of the U.S. National Championship nine times. mainly with favorite...

     (First round)

  10.   Torsten Johansson
    Torsten Johansson
    Torsten Johansson was a Swedish tennis player. who set a record by shutting out two opponents at Wimbledon in 1946. A 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 victory is a tennis rarity. Johansson played for the Royal Tennis Club in the early 1940s and won more than 100 national titles for the club, a record that still stands...

     (Fourth round)



  1.   Pancho Segura
    Pancho Segura
    Pancho Segura, born Francisco Olegario Segura , was a leading tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, both as an amateur and as a professional. In 1950 and 1952, as a professional, he was the World Co-No. 1 player...

     (Quarterfinalist)

  2.   Geoffrey Brown (Fourth round)

  3.   Robert Falkenburg (Quarterfinalist)

  4.   Bill Sidwell
    Bill Sidwell
    Bill Sidwell was an Australian tennis player.Sidwell reached four Grand Slam doubles finals, winning once, and also played in the Davis Cup in 1948 and 1949. He is currently Treasurer of the AVGA and is playing golf regularly in place of tennis.-Grand Slam finals:-External links:* *...

     (Third round)

  5.   Eddie Moylan (Fourth round)

  6.   Vladimír Černík (Third round)

  7.   Vic Seixas
    Vic Seixas
    Elias Victor Seixas, Jr. is an American former tennis player.Seixas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of Portuguese Sephardi Jewish ancestry. After serving in World War II, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where he was a member of Alpha Sigma of the Chi Psi...

     (Fourth round)

  8.   Enrique Morea
    Enrique Morea
    Enrique Morea was an Argentine tennis player.Morea won the mixed doubles title of the 1960 French Championships. He also won two gold medals at the inaugural men's tennis competition at the 1951 Pan American Games.Morea is the current president of the Asociación Argentina de Tenis .-References:...

     (Third round)

  9.   Earl Cochell
    Earl Cochell
    Earl Cochell , is the only tennis player ever barred for life by the United States Tennis Association.Cochell was ranked as high as No. 6 in the U.S. rankings before the 1951 U.S. Nationals...

     (First round)

  10.   Bernard Destremau
    Bernard Destremau
    Bernard Destremau was a top-level French tennis player, diplomat and politician.A precocious French junior champion, Destremau later won several major tournaments including the 1941 and the 1942 French Championships, which was at the time restricted to players either from countries under German...

     (Third round)


Key

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

Finals

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

External links

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