Country (sports) Australia Name Owen Davidson Retired 1974 Weight 82 kg | Career record 115–116 Height 1.85 m Role Tennis player Turned pro 1969 | |
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Born 4 October 1943 (age 80)
Melbourne, Australia ( 1943-10-04 ) Plays Left-handed (one-handed backhand) Australian Open QF (1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967) Similar People John Newcombe, Billie Jean King, Lesley Turner Bowrey, Ken Rosewall, Jana Novotna | ||
Int. Tennis HoF 2010 (member page) Highest ranking No. 8 (1967, NY Times) | ||
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Owen Keir Davidson (born 4 October 1943) is a former professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Partnering Billie Jean King, Davidson won eight grand slam mixed doubles titles. In 1967 he won a calendar year slam for mixed doubles, when he won the Australian Championships (with Lesley Turner Bowrey), and the French Championships, Wimbledon and the US Championships (with King).
Davidson became the first player to win a match in the open era of tennis when he defeated John Clifton in the first round of the British Hard Court Championships in Bournemouth played in April 1968.
His best grand slam singles result was at Wimbledon in 1966, when he reached the semifinals. He is also the 1972 Australian Open and the 1973 US Open men's doubles champion, partnering John Newcombe and Ken Rosewall. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in 2010. He was inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on 26 January 2011 (Australia Day).
