1949 Australian Championships (tennis)

List of Champions of the 1949 Australian Championships (now known as the Australian Open):

Men's Singles

Frank Arthur Sedgman, born 29 October 1927, in Mont Albert, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, was a tennis player who was arguably the world No.1 in 1952. In his 1979 autobiography Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, included Sedgman in his list of the 21...

defeated

John Bromwich

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6-3 6-2 6-2

Women's Singles

Doris Hart

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defeated

Nancye Wynne Bolton

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6-3, 6-4

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