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Ken Rosewall

Rosewall, Ken (1934 -), Australian tennis player whose career lasted more than twenty-five years and was marked by eight victories in tournaments of the Grand Slams between 1953 and 1972.

Ken Rosewall was born in Sydney. It was part of the victorious Davis Cup team in 1953, 1955 and 1956, and abandoned at the same time as his amateur status. He emerged in 1953 at the age of nineteen years in the Australian and France (Roland Garros), where he also won the doubles with compatriot Lewis Hoad. Still winning in Australia in 1955 he turned professional the following year and won the U.S. International (Forest Hills). After a long period without conclusive results, he emerged again in the Internationaux de France in 1968 (against Rod Laver), then those in the U.S. in 1970, and won those in Australia in 1971 (against Arthur Ashe) and 1972, thirty-eight, nineteen years after his first victory. It was however still unhappy at Wimbledon where he failed four times in the finals between 1954 and 1970. He played the Australian Open until 1978.