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Frank Sedgman - Grand Slam record, Professional World Singles Tournament wins, Sources In both singles and doubles, Sedgman was the major force in the first three years of the Australian domination of the Davis Cup matches in which they won 15 victories in an 18-year span from 1950 through 1967. Sedgman and his partner Ken McGregor were the only men’s doubles team to ever win the Grand Slam in a single year—they won all four majors in 1951. Sedgman was the winner of three major titles in professional tennis and was the runner-up four times more in the years before Open tennis. encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/7845/Frank-Sedgman.html   (658 words)

Tennis Australia - News - Articles - Achievements worth celebrating The warm reception Frank received at the RACV club was in stark contrast to the criticism levelled at him when he turned pro in 1953. "Frank Sedgman was the quickest man around the court, [he had] great anticipation, you couldn’t lob him, and he was a super volleyer. Sedgman was known not only for his success as a player and his decision to turn pro, but also for his on-court behaviour. www.tennis.com.au /pages/News.aspx?id=4&pageId=11499&HandlerId=2&archive=false&newsid=3520   (591 words)

FRANK SEDGMAN : Encyclopedia Entry Frank Allan Sedgman, born October 29, 1927, in Mont Albert, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, was a tennis player who was arguably the world amateur No.1 in 1952. Sedgman and his partner Ken McGregor were the only men’s doubles team to ever win the Grand Slam in a single year—they won all four majors in 1951. Sedgman was the winner of three major titles in professional tennis and was the runner-up four times more in the years before Open tennis. www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Frank_Sedgman   (1042 words)

Frank Sedgman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frank Allan Sedgman, born October 29, 1927, in Mont Albert, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, was a tennis player who, even as an amateur, was arguably the World No. 1 player in both 1951 and 1952. In both singles and doubles, Sedgman was the major force in the first three years of the Australian domination of the Davis Cup matches in which they won 15 victories in an 18-year span from 1950 through 1967. Sedgman was the winner of three major titles in professional tennis and was the runner-up four times more in the years before Open tennis. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Sedgman   (1100 words)

Frank Sedgman   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Frank Allan Sedgman, born October 29, 1927, in Mont Albert, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, was a tennis player who, even as an amateur, was arguably the World No. 1 player in both 1951 and 1952. Sedgman was also known as being extremely careful about his spending, like a number of other Australian players of the time, particularly Ken Rosewall. Sedgman was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1979. www.donkeylink.com /en/Frank_Sedgman.htm   (1081 words)

7.30 Report - 9/7/1999: Australias forgotten tennis ace finally recognised There was Bromwich and Quist followed by Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor followed by Hoad and Rosewall, followed by Newcombe and Roach and, in latter years, the two Woodies. FRANK SEDGMAN: If I missed an easy shot he wouldn't go mad at me, if he missed a shot, you know, we wouldn't get mad at one another. MIKE SEXTON: Frank Sedgman still fondly remembers those golden years when he and McGregor ruled tennis but he also remembers the negative reaction when they decided to turn professional, a decision that made them ineligible for Davis Cup or tournament play. www.abc.net.au /7.30/stories/s34824.htm   (891 words)

ipedia.com: Frank Sedgman Article   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Frank Sedgman, born October 29, 1927, in Mt. Albert, Victoria, Australia, was a tennis player of the very highest quality. Sedgman was an extremely fast, slim, 5'll" right-hander known for his fitness. Sedgman continued play professionally well into the 1960s and was the runner-up to Pancho Gonzalez in the United States Pro Championships in 1954. www.ipedia.com /frank_sedgman.html   (346 words)

The Frank solution - Tennis - Sport - theage.com.au FORMER grand slam great Frank Sedgman has joined the chorus of Australian tennis identities urging Lleyton Hewitt to add more aggression and variety to his game if the former No. 1 is to arrest a decline that has led to his lowest year-end ranking since 1999. Sedgman, 79, is an admirer of Hewitt's competitiveness, but believes the world No. 20 will struggle to challenge the ruling class headed by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal unless changes are made to a baseline approach he believes has become too predictable and reactive. Sedgman said he did not fear that Hewitt, 25, was on the way to rankings obscurity and remained a "dangerous player" whose opponents knew they would have to play well to beat him. www.theage.com.au /news/tennis/the-frank-solution/2006/12/01/1164777792190.html   (978 words)

Frank Sedgman - an introduction - Citizendium Frank Arthur Sedgman, born October 29, 1927, in Mont Albert, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, was one of the world’s best tennis players in the 1950s, first as an amateur, then as a professional. Sedgman was an extremely fast, slim, 5'11" (1.80 m) right-hander known for his fitness who played the serve-and-volley game that had recently been popularized by Jack Kramer. Sedgman was the winner of three major titles in professional tennis and was the runner-up another four times. en.citizendium.org /wiki/Frank_Sedgman   (1237 words)

Frank Segman, Jack Kramer and Roger Federer - Talk Tennis Celebrating his 80th birthday at the RACV club yesterday, Sedgman was hailed by the sporting establishment as a trailblazing legend, all acrimony long forgotten. Sedgman said he did not set out to be a trailblazer. He said while Sedgman was "a very aggressive and attacking player", he set a trend for good player behaviour. tt.tennis-warehouse.com /showthread.php?p=1833125   (560 words)

Frank Allan Sedgman - International Tennis Hall of Fame As it was, Frank and Ken won seven straight major doubles, a male record, and Sedg had eight in a row, having taken the U.S. with John Bromwich in 1950. In 1952, his last season as an amateur, Sedgman was the last man to make a rare Wimbledon triple, adding the doubles (with McGregor) and mixed (with Doris Hart) to his singles conquest. However, Sedgman's share of the gate was $102,000, and he was the first male player to earn more than 100 grand in a season. www.tennisfame.com /famer.aspx?pgID=867&hof_id=164   (501 words)

CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Precise records of this time are difficult to locate but Gonzales asserts in his autobiography that after the decisive loss to Kramer in their 1949-1950 tour he then beat his old antagonist 11 times in their next 16 matches. In late 1953, Kramer, then a temporarily retired player (due to his back troubles), signed Gonzales (a 7-year contract) to play in a 1954 USA tour featuring also Pancho Segura, Frank Sedgman and Donald Budge (the latter being replaced in March 1954 by Carl Earn for the last weeks of the tour). Sedgman beat him in the finals at Wembley, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 and also in the French Professional Championship, 6-1, 6-3. encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Pancho_Gonzalez   (6663 words)

Il Tennis in Campania - Campioni di ieri Notò subito il talento naturale di Frank, il suo fisico leggero ma prestante e la sua capacità di allenarsi che lo avevano portato a vincere numerosi titoli studenteschi, in pista e sul campo di football. In quell'occasione Sedgman giocò in coppia con Ken McGregor, un giocatore non meno forte di lui con cui conquistò 7 titoli dello slam. Sedgman partecipò, inoltre, a 10 incontri di Coppa Davis, fra il 1949 e il 1952, vincendo 25 partite su 28. www.tenniscampania.net /campionieri3.html   (952 words)

Ken McGregor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ken McGregor (born 2 June 1929, in Adelaide, Australia) is a former tennis player from Australian who won the Men's Singles title at the Australian Championships (now known as the Australian Open) in 1952. He and his longtime doubles partner, Frank Sedgman, are generally considered to be one of the greatest men's doubles teams of all time. At the end of 1952, Jack Kramer induced both Sedgman and McGregor to turn professional. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ken_McGregor   (385 words)

Harry Hopman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia With players such as Frank Sedgman, Ken McGregor, Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall, Rod Laver, Neale Fraser, John Newcombe, Fred Stolle, Tony Roche, Roy Emerson, Ashley Cooper, Rex Hartwig, Mervyn Rose, and Mal Anderson he won the Cup an unmatched 16 times. In late 1951, when it appeared that Davis Cup star Frank Sedgman was about to turn professional, Hopman used his column in the Melbourne Herald to lead a fund-raising campaign designed to keep Sedgman in the amateur ranks. Enough money was raised to purchase a gasoline station in the name of Sedgman's bride-to-be and Sedgman remained an amateur for one more year. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Hopman   (713 words)

Frank Sedgman - Wikipedia w kroliki.com 07 Frank Sedgman, zawodnik praworęczny, słynął z waleczności na korcie, skutecznej gry wolejowej i silnego forhendu. W 1950 Sedgman, jako pierwszy reprezentant Australii od 1911, zdobył w finale komplet punktów, wygrywając dwa single i debel (w 1911 podobne osiągnięcie zanotował Norman Brookes). Gonzalez i Sedgman rozegrali także mecz na kortach Wimbledonu w 1956, stojący na bardzo wysokim poziomie i zakończony zwycięstwem Amerykanina 4:6, 11:9, 11:9, 9:7. www.kroliki.com /wiki/link-Frank_Sedgman   (1062 words)

Frank Schlesinger - Awards and honors A much-honoured astronomer, he compiled a catalogue of 4000 stellar distances (1935) and wrote monographs about photographic methods and stellar parallaxes. Frank Schlesinger (May 11, 1871 – July 10, 1943) was an American astronomer. Frank Sedgman - Grand Slam record, Professional World Singles Tournament wins, Sources [next] [back] Frank Sargeson encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/7844/Frank-Schlesinger.html   (234 words)

In the same league as Fed | Herald Sun Another was to give Sedgman credit for launching the golden age of Australian tennis in the 1950s and '60s, which produced players of the calibre of Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad and Neale Fraser, to name just a few. Kramer also said tennis appeared to be facing a corruption problem that could have tragic consequences if it was not solved quickly, and that it was struggling to hold its ground as a mainstream sport in his own country. Sedgman won in 1952, going on to accumulate 22 Grand Slam titles in singles, doubles and mixed doubles and starring in a string of Davis Cup wins. www.news.com.au /heraldsun/story/0,21985,22649625-3162,00.html   (721 words)

Factacular : Frank Anne Frank's diary was published in 1947 in the Netherlands under the title Het Achterhuis (in English: 'The Annex'). Frank Lloyd Wright is without a doubt America's most famous architect, and yet he never attended architecture school. Frank Cahill Was the First Man That Billy the Kid Killed www.factacular.com /facts/frank   (417 words)

Recalling All Franks - US Open - Tennis - New York Times Blog As the volatile Marat Safin of Russia was trying to compose himself against his unseeded opponent, Frank Dancevic, of Canada, the Armstrong Stadium fans had a little fun rooting for the underdog. *Frank Sedgman of Australia won the U.S. Nationals in 1951 and 1952. This Frank, Frank Russell Dancevic, was born in Niagara Falls, Canada. usopen.blogs.nytimes.com /2007/08/29/recalling-all-franks   (938 words)

POST Newspapers Online: Headline News Tennis legend Frank Sedgman relived the scandal and the rewards of "turning pro" when he returned to the King's Park Tennis Club on Tuesday. Mr Sedgman (76) was in town for a reunion with WA tennis greats such as Margaret Court, Arthur Marshall and his old friend Cliver Wilderspin, from Wembley Downs. The club was also the place where Mr Sedgman burst on to the Australian tennis scene in 1947 by winning the WA state championship - he was 20 years old. www.postnewspapers.com.au /20031025/news/012.shtml   (595 words)

Pancho Gonzales Frank Poulain cut the article out and took Pancho to see Perry T. Jones, President of the Southern California Tennis Association and a very influential tennis figure in US tennis at the time. Gonzales won both his rubbers against Frank Sedgman and Billy Sidwell without dropping a set and the US won the Cup 4 matches to 1. He beat Frank Sedgman, Ken McGregor and Pancho Segura in a round robin tour in 1954 and in 1956 he beat Tony Trabert 74 matches to 27. www.geocities.com /pancho_gonzales_tribute/bio.htm   (2440 words)

Biography of Frank Sedgman -   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Frank Allan Sedgman, born October 29, 1927, in Mt. Albert, Victoria (Australia)Victoria, Australia, was a tennis player of the very highest quality. Sedgman was an extremely fast, slim, 5'11" (1.80 m) right-hander known for his fitness. Sedgman was the winner of three Professional Tennis Championshipsmajor titles in pre-open tennis era professional tennis and was the runner-up in four more. www.short-biographies.com /biographies/FrankSedgman.html   (439 words)

Daily Tennis | Sedgman to be Honored at Los Angeles Australian tennis legend Frank Sedgman, a two-time Los Angeles champion, will be the 2004 tournament honoree at the 78th annual Mercedes-Benz Cup presented by Countrywide, July 12-18, at the Los Angeles Tennis Center-UCLA. Sedgman, who won back-to-back Los Angeles singles titles in 1950-51, stands third among all-time male champions with 22 major victories in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Sedgman turned professional in 1953 and toured with Jack Kramer, becoming the first male player to earn more than $100,000 in a season. www.dailytennis.com /page.php?id=4558   (560 words)

Celebrity Page, Celebrity addresses, scans, photos, pictures He won the doubles Grand Slam in 1951 with his partner Ken McGregor and was the major force in the first three years of the Australian domination of the Davis Cup matches in which they won 15 victories in an 18-year span from 1950 through 1967. He was also extremely graceful in his footwork and strokes, with a severely classical style that was a model to other players for many years. Although largely forgotten today, Sedgman is almost certainly one of the 20 greatest male tennis players to have ever played. www.viavenue.com /cel.php?viewCel=10239   (355 words)

Torben Ulrich: ballplaying: Profiles, interviews: Pastimes magazine, January 1976 Then, in 1952, he was unfortunate enough to draw Frank Sedgman in the opening round of the United States Championship at Forest Hills. Sedgman, then at the peak of his devastating game, chewed him up and spit him out. But against Frank Sedgman in the finals at the Camelback he demonstrated that nothing could be farther from the truth. www.torbenulrich.com /ballplaying/ballplaying4b7.htm   (2336 words)

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