1956 U.S. National Championships (tennis)

List of Champions of the 1956 U.S. National Championships (now known as the US Open):

Men's Singles

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

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

4-6 6-2 6-3 6-3

Women's Singles

Shirley Fry Irvin defeated

Althea Gibson

Althea Gibson was a World No. 1 American sportswoman who became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam title in 1956. She is sometimes referred to as "the Jackie Robinson of tennis" for breaking the color barrier...

6-3, 6-4

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