1956 U.S. National Championships - Men's Singles
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Ken Rosewall
defeated Lew Hoad
4–6 6–2 6–3 6–3 in the final to win the Men's Singles title at the 1956 U.S. National Championships
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is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.
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....
4–6 6–2 6–3 6–3 in the final to win the Men's Singles title at the 1956 U.S. National Championships
1956 U.S. National Championships (tennis)
List of Champions of the 1956 U.S. National Championships :-Men's Singles: Ken Rosewall defeated Lew Hoad 4-6 6-2 6-3 6-3-Women's Singles: Shirley Fry Irvin defeated Althea Gibson 6-3, 6-4...
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Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Ken RosewallKen 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.
Lew HoadLew HoadLewis Alan Hoad was a champion tennis player....
(Finalist)- Ken RosewallKen 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...
(Champion) 
Ham Richardson (Quarterfinalist)- Vic SeixasVic SeixasElias 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...
(Semifinalist) - Neale FraserNeale FraserNeale 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...
(Semifinalist) - Ashley Cooper (Quarterfinalist)
Ulf SchmidtUlf SchmidtUlf "Uffe" Christian Johan Schmidt is a former Swedish tennis player. He competed for AIK from Stockholm.He won 14 singles' tournaments, among them the International Swedish Championships in Båstad in 1957 and 1961. In 1958 he and Sven Davidson won the doubles in Wimbledon...
(Third round)- Dick SavittDick SavittRichard "Dick" Savitt is a 6’ 3" and 185-pound right-handed American male former tennis player.Savitt was ranked 2nd in the world in 1951. That year, at the age of 24, he won both the Wimbledon Singles Championship and the Australian Singles title...
(Quarterfinalist)
Key
- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild Card
- LL = Lucky Loser
- r. = retired
Final Eight
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
External links
- 1956 U.S. National Championships on ITFtennis.com, the source for this draw