1955 Australian Championships - Men's Singles
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Ken Rosewall
Ken Rosewall
Kenneth 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...

 defeated Lew Hoad
Lew Hoad
Lewis Alan Hoad was a champion tennis player....

 9-7 6-4 6-4 in the final to win the Men's Singles title at the 1955 Australian Championships
1955 Australian Championships (tennis)
List of Champions of the 1955 Australian Championships :-Men's Singles: Ken Rosewall defeated Lew Hoad 9-7 6-4 6-4-Women's Singles: Beryl Penrose defeated Thelma Coyne Long 6-4, 6-3...

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See also:
1955 Australian Championships - Women's Singles
1955 Australian Championships - Women's Singles
Beryl Penrose defeated Thelma Long 6–4 6–3 in the final to win the Women's Singles title at the 1955 Australian Championships.See also:-Seeds:The seeded players are listed below...


Seeds

The seeded players are listed below. Ken Rosewall
Ken Rosewall
Kenneth 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...

 is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


  1.   Ken Rosewall
    Ken Rosewall
    Kenneth 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...

     (Champion)

  2.   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...

     (Quarterfinalist)

  3.   Rex Hartwig
    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:...

     (Semifinalist)

  4.   Tony Trabert
    Tony Trabert
    Marion Anthony Trabert is a retired American tennis champion and long-time tennis author, TV commentator, instructor, and motivational speaker...

     (Semifinalist)

  5.   Lew Hoad
    Lew Hoad
    Lewis Alan Hoad was a champion tennis player....

     (Finalist)

  6.   Sven Davidson
    Sven Davidson
    Sven Davidson was a Swedish tennis player who became the first Swede to win a Grand Slam title when he won the French Championships in 1957...

     (Third round)

  7.   Mervyn Rose
    Mervyn Rose
    Mervyn Rose was an Australian male tennis player. He was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales and turned professional in 1959...

     (Quarterfinalist)

  8.   Lennart Bergelin
    Lennart Bergelin
    Lennart Bergelin was a Swedish tennis player and coach. As a player, for AIK, Bergelin won nine Swedish championship singles titles between 1945 and 1955, and the French Open doubles title in 1948. Bergelin is best known for his work with Björn Borg, whom he trained between 1971 and 1983, helping...

     (Quarterfinalist)



  1.   Don Candy
    Don Candy
    Don Candy is an Australian Tennis player.Singles - French Championships: eighth-finals in 1956 and 1960.Australian Championships: quarter-finals in 1952 and 1959.-References:...

     (Second round)

  2.   Roger Becker
    Roger Becker
    Roger Becker was a British tennis player.In 1952, Becker played in the Davis Cupat 18 years of age, the youngest British player to have done so at the time, his record stood until 2005 when it was broken by Andy Murray aged 17. He served as Paul Hutchins's coach for a time.-Sources:*...

     (Third round)

  3.   Neale Fraser
    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...

     (Third round)

  4. n/a

  5.   George Worthington (Third round)

  6.   Michael Green (Third round)

  7.   Ashley Cooper (Quarterfinalist)

  8.   Gerald Moss (Third round)


Key

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

Finals

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

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