1967 French Championships - Men's Singles
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Roy Emerson
Roy Emerson
Roy Stanley Emerson is an Australian former tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand Slam men's doubles titles. He is the only male player to have won singles and doubles titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. His 28 Grand Slam titles are an all-time record for a male...

 defeated Tony Roche
Tony Roche
Anthony "Tony" Dalton Roche is a former professional Australian tennis player, native of Tarcutta. He played junior tennis in the New South Wales regional city of Wagga Wagga. He won one Grand Slam singles title and twelve Grand Slam doubles titles. He is also very well known for coaching...

 6-1 6-4 2-6 6-2 in the final to win the Men's Singles title at the 1967 French Championships
1967 French Championships (tennis)
List of Champions of the 1967 French Championships :-Men's Singles: Roy Emerson defeated Tony Roche 6-1 6-4 2-6 6-2-Women's Singles: Françoise Durr defeated Lesley Turner 4-6 6-3 6-4...

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See also:
1967 French Championships - Women's Singles
1967 French Championships - Women's Singles
Françoise Durr defeated Lesley Turner 4-6 6-3 6-4 in the final to win the Women's Singles title at the 1967 French Championships.See also:-Seeds:...


Seeds

The seeded players are listed below. Roy Emerson
Roy Emerson
Roy Stanley Emerson is an Australian former tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand Slam men's doubles titles. He is the only male player to have won singles and doubles titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. His 28 Grand Slam titles are an all-time record for a male...

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


  1.   Roy Emerson
    Roy Emerson
    Roy Stanley Emerson is an Australian former tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand Slam men's doubles titles. He is the only male player to have won singles and doubles titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. His 28 Grand Slam titles are an all-time record for a male...

     (Champion)

  2.   Tony Roche
    Tony Roche
    Anthony "Tony" Dalton Roche is a former professional Australian tennis player, native of Tarcutta. He played junior tennis in the New South Wales regional city of Wagga Wagga. He won one Grand Slam singles title and twelve Grand Slam doubles titles. He is also very well known for coaching...

     (Finalist)

  3.   John Newcombe
    John Newcombe
    John David Newcombe, AO, OBE is a former World No. 1 tennis player.-Biography:He won seven Grand Slam singles titles, A natural athlete, Newcombe played several sports as a boy until devoting himself to tennis. He was the Australian junior champion in 1961, 1962, and 1963 and was a member of...

     (Fourth round)

  4.   Nicola Pietrangeli
    Nicola Pietrangeli
    Nicola "Nicky" Pietrangeli is a former tennis player from Italy. He is considered by many to be Italy's greatest-ever tennis champion....

     (Third round)

  5.   István Gulyás
    István Gulyás
    István Gulyás , after allowing the match to be delayed 24 hours to allow Roche to recover from an ankle injury. It was Gulyas' lone Grand Slam final. He holds the record for most Hungarian National Championship titles by having it awarded 15 times in his career.-Singles: 1 :-References:...

     (Semifinalist)

  6.   Martin Mulligan (Fourth round)

  7.   Alexander Metreveli (Third round)

  8.   Pierre Darmon
    Pierre Darmon
    Pierre Darmon was a French tennis player.In 1963, he reached his highest world ranking, # 8. He was also ranked in the top 10 worldwide in 1958 and 1964.-Tennis career:...

     (Quarterfinalist)



  1.   Bob Hewitt
    Bob Hewitt
    Robert "Bob" Anthony John Hewitt is a former professional male tennis player from Australia...

     (Fourth round)

  2.   Cliff Drysdale
    Cliff Drysdale
    Cliff Drysdale is a former top-ranked professional tennis player of the 1960s and early 1970s who became a well-known tennis announcer. He was one of the Handsome Eight, signed by Lamar Hunt in 1968 for the newly formed World Championship Tennis group...

     (Quarterfinalist)

  3.   Tom Okker
    Tom Okker
    Thomas S. Okker is a former Dutch tennis player. He was ranked among the world's top 10 singles players for seven consecutive years, 1968–74, reaching a career high of world # 3 in 1969. He also was ranked World # 1 in doubles in 1969.-Tennis career:Okker was the Dutch champion from 1964 through...

     (Quarterfinalist)

  4.   Bill Bowrey (Second round)

  5.   Owen Davidson
    Owen Davidson
    ' was a professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s.Partnering Billie Jean King, Davidson managed to win eight grand slam mixed doubles titles. Davidson was one of very few to win a calendar year slam for mixed doubles, when he won the Australian Championships, French Championships,...

     (Quarterfinalist)

  6.   Nikola Pilić
    Nikola Pilic
    Nikola "Niki" Pilić is a retired Croatian professional tennis player who competed for SFR Yugoslavia. He was one of the Handsome Eight.-Biography:...

     (Semifinalist)

  7.   Jan Kodeš
    Jan Kodeš
    Jan Kodeš is a right-handed Czech former tennis player who won three Grand Slam events in the early-1970s.Kodeš's greatest success was on the clay courts of the French Open. He won the title there in 1970, beating Željko Franulović in the final, and in 1971, defeating Ilie Năstase in the final...

     (Fourth round)

  8.   Jaidip Mukerjea
    Jaidip Mukerjea
    Jaidip Mukerjea is a retired professional tennis player from India. Mukerjea is the grandson of Indian independence leader Chittaranjan Das.Mukerjea won the Indian National Junior Championship in 1959...

     (First round)


Key

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

Final Eight

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