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Top works
- Ken Rosewall on tennis
- Play tennis with Rosewall
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 2001 · cited 18,515x
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· 2018 · cited 10,795x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
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Key facts
- Full name
- Kenneth Robert Rosewall
- Country sports
- Australia
- Residence
- Sydney , New South Wales, Australia
- Born
- ( 1934-11-02 ) 2 November 1934 (age 91) , Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Height
- 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Turned pro
- 1956, (amateur since 1950)
- Plays
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Prize money
- US$1,602,700
- Int tennis hof
- 1980 ( member page )
- Career record
- 1811–710
- Career titles
- 147 (40 listed by the ATP)
- Highest ranking
- No. 1 (1961, L'Équipe )
- Australian open
- W ( 1953 , 1955 , 1971 , 1972 )
- French open
- W ( 1953 , 1968 )
- Wimbledon
- F ( 1954 , 1956 , 1970 , 1974 )
- Us open
- W ( 1956 , 1970 )
- Tour finals
- RR – 3rd ( 1970 )
- Wct finals
- W ( 1971 , 1972 )
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Team
- _Retired Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Australia
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 68
- Image
- Ken Rosewall portrait.jpg
- Height
- 170
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- Commons category
- Ken Rosewall
- date of birth
- 1934-11-02
- doubles record
- 206–111
- singles record
- 550–174
- birth name
- Kenneth Robert Rosewall
- prize money
- 1602700
- end of work period
- 1980-00-00
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
- ranking
- 34
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Kenneth Robert Rosewall AM MBE (born 2 November 1934) is an Australian former world No. 1 professional tennis player. Rosewall won 147 singles titles, including 23 majors: a record 15 Pro Majors and eight Grand Slam tournaments. He also won 15 Pro Majors in doubles and nine Grand Slam doubles titles. Rosewall achieved a Pro Slam in singles in 1963 by winning the three Pro Majors in one year, and completed the career Grand Slam in doubles.
Rosewall had a renowned backhand and enjoyed a long career at the highest levels from the early 1950s to the early 1970s. He was ranked as the world No. 1 men's tennis player by multiple sources from 1961 to 1964, multiple sources in 1970, and Rino Tommasi in 1971 and 1972. Rosewall was first ranked in the top 20 in 1952, and last ranked in the top 20 in 1977. Rosewall is the only player to have simultaneously held Pro Slam titles on three different surfaces (1962–63). At the 1971 Australian Open, he became the first man in the Open Era to win a Grand Slam tournament without dropping a set. Rosewall won world professional championship tours in 1963, 1964, and the WCT titles in 1971 and 1972.