1959 Australian Championships (tennis)

List of Champions of the 1959 Australian Championships (now known as the Australian Open):

Men's Singles

Alejandro "Alex" Rodríguez Olmedo is a former tennis player from Peru, who was ranked as the top amateur player in the world in 1959. Although born and raised in Peru, he came to Southern California and was mentored by Perry T. Jones, President of the Southern California Tennis Association at the...

defeated

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...

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Women's Singles

Mary Carter Reitano

Mary Carter Reitano is a female former tennis player from Australia.Reitano won the singles title at the 1956 and 1959 Australian Championships and failed to reached the semifinals there only once in nine attempts. She teamed with Margaret Court to win the women's doubles title there in 1961...

defeated

Renee Schuurman Haygarth

Renee Schuurman

Renee Schuurman Haygarth was a female tennis player from South Africa who won five Grand Slam women's doubles titles and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title.-Biography:...

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