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Roy Emerson

Roy Emerson
AC
Full nameRoy Stanley Emerson
Country (sports) Australia
ResidenceNewport Beach, California, U.S.
Born (1936-11-03) 3 November 1936 (age 88)
Blackbutt, Queensland, Australia
Height183 cm (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Turned pro1968 (amateur tour from 1951)
Retired1983
PlaysRight-handed (one-handed backhand)
Int. Tennis HoF1982 (member page)
Singles
Career record1397-416 (77.0%)[2]
Career titles110[2] (6 open era titles listed by ATP)
Highest rankingNo. 1 (1961, Ned Potter)[3]
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenW (1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967)
French OpenW (1963, 1967)
WimbledonW (1964, 1965)
US OpenW (1961, 1964)
Doubles
Career record204–64
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenW (1962, 1966, 1969)
French OpenW (1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965)
WimbledonW (1959, 1961, 1971)
US OpenW (1959, 1960, 1965, 1966)
Team competitions
Davis CupW (1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967)

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, 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.

  1. ^ "Roy Emerson". atpworldtour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals. Archived from the original on 14 May 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Roy Emerson: Career Match Record". thetennisbase.com. Tennis Base. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  3. ^ Potter, Edward C. (November 1961). "The 1961 World's First Ten". World Tennis. Vol. 9, no. 6. New York. p. 13.
  4. ^ Potter, Edward C. (November 1961). "The 1961 World's First Ten". World Tennis. Vol. 9, no. 6. New York. p. 13.
  5. ^ "The Miami Herald, 3 November 1964". newspapers.com. 3 November 1964. Archived from the original on 25 November 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  6. ^ a b Collins (2016), p. 758
  7. ^ "Around the World..." World Tennis. Vol. 12, no. 8. New York. January 1965. pp. 67–68.
  8. ^ "Letters". World Tennis. Vol. 13, no. 9. New York. February 1966. p. 8.
  9. ^ "Around the world..." World Tennis. Vol. 13, no. 11. New York. April 1966. p. 75.
  10. ^ "Around the World..." World Tennis. Vol. 13, no. 9. New York. February 1966. p. 66.

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