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John David Newcombe is an Australian tennis player born in Sydney on May 23, 1944. A right-handed competitor, he played professionally from 1967 to 1981. During his career, he achieved a singles record of 520–181 and a doubles record of 333–115. He was a member of the Australia Davis Cup team and earned a prize money total of 1062408.
Newcombe received the award of Officer of the Order of the British Empire and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. He stands 183 units tall and weighs 80 units. In addition to his athletic career, he is the author of five works, including *The young tennis player*, *Bedside tennis*, *Beside Tennis*, *Newk*, and *The family tennis book*. He resides in Sydney.
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Key facts
- Full name
- John David Newcombe
- Country sports
- Australia
- Residence
- Sydney, Australia
- Born
- ( 1944-05-23 ) 23 May 1944 (age 82) , Sydney , Australia
- Height
- 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Turned pro
- 1967 (amateur from 1960)
- Plays
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Prize money
- US$1,062,408
- Int tennis hof
- 1986 ( member page )
- Career record
- 1072–401 (72.8%)
- Career titles
- 68 (41 open era titles listed by ATP)
- Highest ranking
- No. 1 (1967 , Lance Tingay ) , No. 1 (3 June 1974, ATP)
- Australian open
- W ( 1973 , 1975 )
- French open
- QF ( 1965 , 1969 )
- Wimbledon
- W ( 1967 , 1970 , 1971 )
- Us open
- W ( 1967 , 1973 )
- Tour finals
- SF ( 1973 , 1974 )
- Wct finals
- W ( 1974 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Australia
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Sydney
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Australia Davis Cup team
- Country for sport
- Australia
- Mass
- 80
- Image
- John Newcombe 1968.jpg
- Height
- 183
- Residence
- Sydney
Show 13 more facts
- date of birth
- 1944-05-23
- handedness
- right-handedness
- doubles record
- 333–115
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- singles record
- 520–181
- birth name
- John David Newcombe
- Commons category
- John Newcombe
- prize money
- 1062408
- end of work period
- 1981-00-00
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
- ranking
- 455
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Tennis
- nickname
- Newk
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Encyclopedic overview
John David Newcombe AO OBE (born 23 May 1944) is an Australian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in both men's singles and men's doubles. Newcombe won a combined 26 major titles: seven in singles, a former record 17 in men's doubles, and two in mixed doubles. He also contributed to five Davis Cup titles for Australia during an age when the Davis Cup was deemed as significant as the majors.
Career
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