Mervyn RoseMervyn Rose was an Australian male tennis player. He was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales and turned professional in 1959...
defeated
Rex HartwigRex Noel Hartwig was an Australian tennis player.-Wimbledon:He won the doubles in Wimbledon twice: In 1954 with Mervyn Rose and in 1955 with Lew Hoad.-Australian Championships:...
6-2 0-6 6-4 6-2 in the final to win the
Men's Singles title at the
1954 Australian ChampionshipsList of Champions of the 1954 Australian Championships :-Men's Singles: Mervyn Rose defeated Rex Hartwig 6-2 0-6 6-4 6-2-Women's Singles: Thelma Coyne Long defeated Jenny Staley Hoad 6-3, 6-4...
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See also:
- 1954 Australian Championships - Women's Singles
Thelma Long defeated Jenny Staley 6-3 6-4 in the final to win the Women's Singles title at the 1954 Australian Championships.See also:-Seeds:...
Seeds
The seeded players are listed below.
Mervyn RoseMervyn Rose was an Australian male tennis player. He was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales and turned professional in 1959...
is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.
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 Ken RosewallKenneth Robert Rosewall AM MBE is a former world top-ranking amateur and professional tennis player from Australia. He won 23 Majors including eight Grand Slam singles titles and before the Open Era a record fifteen Pro Slam titles . Rosewall won 9 slams in doubles with a career double grand slam...
(Semifinalist)
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 Tony TrabertMarion Anthony Trabert is a retired American tennis champion and long-time tennis author, TV commentator, instructor, and motivational speaker...
(Second round)
- Rex Hartwig
Rex Noel Hartwig was an Australian tennis player.-Wimbledon:He won the doubles in Wimbledon twice: In 1954 with Mervyn Rose and in 1955 with Lew Hoad.-Australian Championships:...
(Finalist)
- 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...
(Quarterfinalist)
- Mervyn Rose
Mervyn Rose was an Australian male tennis player. He was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales and turned professional in 1959...
(Champion)
- Ham Richardson (Quarterfinalist)
- George Worthington (Quarterfinalist)
- 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)
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- Clive Wilderspin (First round)
- Robert Perry (Second round)
- Ian Ayre
Ian Ayre , is a Scouse businessman and the current Managing Director of Liverpool Football Club.-Biography:Born in the Liverpool, he was educated at Litherland High School...
(Second round)
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 Owen Williams (Second round)
- 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)
- Abe Segal
Abe Segal is a former South African tennis player. During the 1950s and 60s, he was the doubles partner of Gordon Forbes...
(Second round)
- Neale Fraser
Neale Andrew Fraser AO MBE is a former tennis player from Australia, born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of a Victorian judge. He began playing tennis at age 11 and attended St Kevin's College, Melbourne where he became Captain of Tennis at the school.Fraser won Wimbledon in 1960 and the US...
(Second round)
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 Jean-Noel Grinda (Second round)
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Key
- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild Card
- LL = Lucky Loser
- r. = retired
Finals
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Section 2
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