1983 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Singles
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John McEnroe
John McEnroe
John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title...

 defeated Chris Lewis 6-2 6-2 6-2 in the final to win the Gentlemen's Singles title at the 1983 Wimbledon Championships
1983 Wimbledon Championships
The 1983 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on :grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon in London in England...

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See also:
1983 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles
1983 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles
Martina Navratilova defeated Andrea Jaeger 6-0 6-3 in the final to win the Ladies' Singles title at the 1983 Wimbledon Championships.See also:-Seeds:...

1983 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Doubles
1983 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Doubles
1983 Wimbledon Championships - Mixed Doubles

Seeds

The seeded players are listed below. John McEnroe
John McEnroe
John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title...

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


  1.   Jimmy Connors
    Jimmy Connors
    James Scott "Jimmy" Connors is an American former world no. 1 tennis player....

     (Fourth round)

  2.   John McEnroe
    John McEnroe
    John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title...

     (Champion)

  3.   Ivan Lendl
    Ivan Lendl
    Ivan Lendl is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Lendl became a United States citizen. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis...

     (Semifinalist)

  4.   Guillermo Vilas
    Guillermo Vilas
    Guillermo Apolinario Vilas is a retired and former World No. 2 professional tennis player from Argentina. He was the second Latin-American to win a Grand Slam tournament.-Career:...

     (First round)

  5.   Mats Wilander
    Mats Wilander
    Mats Wilander is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden. From 1982 through 1988, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , and one Grand Slam men's doubles title...

     (Third round)

  6.   Gene Mayer
    Gene Mayer
    Gene Mayer is a former tennis player from the United States who won fourteen singles titles during his career.Mayer was born in Flushing, Queens, New York. He grew up in Wayne, New Jersey, and played tennis at Wayne Valley High School, where he went unbeaten in his two years on the tennis team...

     (Withdrew before the tournament began)

  7.   José Luis Clerc
    José Luis Clerc
    José Luis Clerc is a former Argentine professional tennis player, and one of the most important Argentine players in history....

     (First round)

  8.   Vitas Gerulaitis
    Vitas Gerulaitis
    Vytautas Kevin Gerulaitis was a Lithuanian–American professional tennis player. He is known for winning the men's singles title at one of the two Australian Open tournaments held in 1977. Gerulaitis won the tournament held in December, while Roscoe Tanner won the earlier January tournament...

     (Second round)



  1.   Steve Denton
    Steve Denton
    Steve Denton is a former professional tennis player for the ATP Tour. He is currently the head men's tennis coach at Texas A&M University....

     (First round)

  2.   Jimmy Arias
    Jimmy Arias
    James Arias is a former tennis touring professional player from the United States, a bronze medallist.From Grand Island, near Buffalo, New York, Arias's peak year was 1983, when as a 19 year-old he finished the year ranked World No. 6, having reached the U.S...

     (Withdrew before the tournament began)

  3.   Johan Kriek
    Johan Kriek
    Johan Kriek is a South African American professional male tennis player and founder of the Global Water Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to delivering clean water to the world's neediest communities. Kriek has won two Australian Opens and has reached the semi-finals at the French...

     (Third round)

  4.   Kevin Curren
    Kevin Curren
    ----Kevin Melvyn Curren is a former professional tennis player. He played in two Grand Slam singles finals and won four Grand Slam doubles titles.-Career:...

     (Semifinalist)

  5.   Brian Gottfried
    Brian Gottfried
    Brian Edward Gottfried is a retired tennis player from the United States who won 25 singles titles and 54 doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest ranking on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour on June 19, 1977, when he became World No....

     (Fourth round)

  6.   Bill Scanlon
    Bill Scanlon
    Bill Scanlon is a former tennis player from the United States, who won nine singles and two doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP ranking on January 9, 1984, when he reached number 9...

     (Fourth round)

  7.   Hank Pfister
    Hank Pfister
    Hank Pfister is a former tennis player from the United States, who won two singles titles during his professional career...

     (Second round)

  8.   Tim Mayotte
    Tim Mayotte
    Timothy "Tim" Mayotte is a former professional tennis player from the United States.- Career :...

     (Quarterfinalist)


Key

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

Finals

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Section 8

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