John David Newcombe AO OBE (born 23 May 1944) is an Australian former professional tennis player. He is one of the few men to have attained a world No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles. At the majors, he won seven singles titles, a former record 17 men's doubles titles, and two mixed doubles titles. He also contributed to five Davis Cup titles for Australia during an age when the Davis Cup was deemed as significant as the majors.[2]Tennis magazine rated him the 10th best male player of the period 1965–2005.
^United States Lawn Tennis Association (1972). Official Encyclopedia of Tennis (First Edition), p. 428.
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John David Newcombe AO OBE (born 23 May 1944) is an Australian former professional tennis player. He is one of the few men to have attained a world No...
and Australia, but he did not win any of them, although his loss to JohnNewcombe was close as Connors lost 9–7 in a fourth set tiebreak. He won nine...
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more so than many of his contemporaries. San Francisco tennis researcher John Yandell used a high-speed video camera and special software to count the...
and in November, captured the Wembley Pro tournament over WCT player JohnNewcombe. At age 34, Rosewall was sranked No. 3 in the world behind Laver and...
round, making him the second fastest player to reach this milestone after John McEnroe, and faster than the Big 3. After reaching the semifinals, Alcaraz...
consecutive weeks during the North American summer hard-court season. He defeated John McEnroe in the quarterfinals of the Canadian Open, but then lost to Chang...
first time in the world group of the Davis Cup in six years. Rafter and JohnNewcombe are the only other two Australian men to have been ranked No. 1 since...
points on 6 June 2016, the most ATP points ever accumulated by any player. John McEnroe held the No. 1 ranking a record 14 times, Sampras and Djokovic are...
independent history, winning both singles matches against Sam Querrey and John Isner in a 3–2 victory. After early exits at the Indian Wells and Miami Masters...
Championships on grass and the French Pro Championship on clay (both over JohnNewcombe). Laver also won the last big open event of the year, the Pacific Southwest...
first tournament at La Quinta, California. He won his first match against John Austin, but then lost his second match to Mats Wilander. By the end of 1986...
individuality, and has been described by three-time Wimbledon champion JohnNewcombe as an "exceptional talent" and "a real individual". Kyrgios has openly...
1969 and 1970, losing to Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. With compatriot JohnNewcombe, he won 12 Grand Slam men's doubles tournaments. In January 1968, Roche...
Despite taking the first set of the final, he finished runner-up to American John Isner, who had never previously won a Masters title. Zverev continued his...
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have been ranked world No. 1 in both singles and doubles, the other being John McEnroe (even if McEnroe still retains the record of being number 1 in single...
against Jimmy Connors and a 21–15 record (7–3 in major matches) against John McEnroe. Lendl's dominance of his era was the most evident at the year-end...
Schroeder, Jack Crawford, Pancho Segura, Frank Sedgman, Tony Trabert, JohnNewcombe, Arthur Ashe, Stan Smith, Björn Borg, and Jimmy Connors. Kramer felt...
because the organizers thought he was too clumsy. In 1971 Smith and JohnNewcombe were joint recipients of The Martini and Rossi Award, voted for by 11...
Wimbledon to Peter Doohan, ranked 70. In the Davis Cup that year, Becker and John McEnroe played one of the longest matches in tennis history. Becker won 4–6...
to the French Open in 1983, where he lost to Yannick Noah after defeating John McEnroe in a quarterfinal. He lost in the third round at Wimbledon to Roscoe...