(1936-11-03) 3 November 1936 (age 87) Blackbutt, Queensland, Australia
Height
183 cm (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Turned pro
1968 (amateur tour from 1953)
Retired
1983
Plays
Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Int. Tennis HoF
1982 (member page)
Singles
Career record
1397-416 (77.0%)[2]
Career titles
110[2] (6 open era titles listed by ATP)
Highest ranking
No. 1 (1961, Ned Potter)[3]
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open
W (1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967)
French Open
W (1963, 1967)
Wimbledon
W (1964, 1965)
US Open
W (1961, 1964)
Doubles
Career record
204–64
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open
W (1962, 1966, 1969)
French Open
W (1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965)
Wimbledon
W (1959, 1961, 1971)
US Open
W (1959, 1960, 1965, 1966)
Team competitions
Davis Cup
W (1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967)
Roy Stanley EmersonAC (born 3 November 1936) is an Australian former tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand Slam doubles titles, for a total of 28 Grand Slam titles. All of his singles Grand Slam victories and 14 of his Grand Slam doubles victories were achieved before the open era began in 1968. He is the only male player to have completed a career Grand Slam (winning titles at all four Grand Slam events) in both singles and doubles, and the first of four male players to complete a double career Grand Slam in singles (later followed by Rod Laver, Novak Djokovic, and Rafael Nadal). His 28 major titles are the all-time record for a male player. He was ranked world No. 1 amateur in 1961 by Ned Potter,[4] 1964 by Potter,[5] Lance Tingay [6] and an Ulrich Kaiser panel of 14 experts[7] and 1965 by Tingay,[6] Joseph McCauley,[8] Sport za Rubezhom[9] and an Ulrich Kaiser panel of 16 experts.[10]
Emerson was the first male player to win 12 singles majors. He held that record for 30 years until it was passed by Pete Sampras in 2000. He also held the record of six Australian Open men's singles titles until 2019 when Novak Djokovic won his seventh title. Emerson won five of those titles consecutively (1963–67), a still-standing record. Emerson is one of only five tennis players ever to win multiple slam sets in two disciplines. Emerson was a member of a record eight Davis Cup–winning teams between 1959 and 1967. Unlike several of his contemporaries, he chose to remain an amateur player and did not turn pro during the pre-Open Era.
^"Roy Emerson". atpworldtour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals. Archived from the original on 14 May 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
^ ab"Roy Emerson: Career Match Record". thetennisbase.com. Tennis Base. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
^Potter, Edward C. (November 1961). "The 1961 World's First Ten". World Tennis. Vol. 9, no. 6. New York. p. 13.
^Potter, Edward C. (November 1961). "The 1961 World's First Ten". World Tennis. Vol. 9, no. 6. New York. p. 13.
^"The Miami Herald, 3 November 1964". newspapers.com. 3 November 1964. Archived from the original on 25 November 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^ abCollins (2016), p. 758
^"Around the World..." World Tennis. Vol. 12, no. 8. New York. January 1965. pp. 67–68.
^"Letters". World Tennis. Vol. 13, no. 9. New York. February 1966. p. 8.
^"Around the world..." World Tennis. Vol. 13, no. 11. New York. April 1966. p. 75.
^"Around the World..." World Tennis. Vol. 13, no. 9. New York. February 1966. p. 66.
Roy Stanley Emerson AC (born 3 November 1936) is an Australian former tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand Slam doubles titles...
the time, only the fifth male player (joining Rod Laver, Fred Perry, RoyEmerson and Don Budge—these have since been joined by Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal...
Archived from the original on 28 January 2024. Retrieved 28 January 2024. Roy, Neelabhra (22 June 2022). "5 lowest-ranked players to win Wimbledon ft....
was his 13th Grand Slam singles title, breaking the all-time record of RoyEmerson that had stood for over 30 years. In the 2000 US Open, Sampras overcame...
became the first man in history to win any major eight times, and tied RoyEmerson for the third-most major titles in history. He also equaled Max Decugis...
first round of the Pacific Southwest Open in Los Angeles, defeating RoyEmerson. In 1971, Connors won the NCAA singles title as a Freshman while attending...
sixth title at the Australian Open, equaling the then record held by RoyEmerson and Novak Djokovic, which was surpassed by Djokovic in 2019. He also...
the final of the Australian Championship but lost on both occasions to RoyEmerson. He won the 1967 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Milwaukee defeating...
only by Lew Hoad in 1956. At the Australian championships, Laver beat RoyEmerson in the final. The biggest hurdle to Laver's winning the Grand Slam was...
RoyEmerson Arena is a tennis stadium located in Gstaad, Switzerland. The stadium is the centerpiece of the Suisse Open Gstaad, an ATP Tour event. The...
seventh overall Grand Slam title, without losing a set and defeated RoyEmerson and Okker before beating Ashe in the final in straight sets. Rosewall...
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