History: Statistics & Facts

Youngest Champions
Men's singles: Ken Rosewall (18 years, 2 months) in 1953
Women's singles: Martina Hingis (16 years, 3 months) in 1997
Men's doubles: Lew Hoad (18 years, 2 months) in 1953
Women's doubles: Mirjana Lucic (15 years, 10 months) in 1998
Mixed doubles: Venus Williams (17 years, 7 months) in 1998

Oldest Champions
Men's singles: Ken Rosewall (37 years, 2 months) in 1972
Women's singles: Thelma Long (35 years, 8 months) in 1954
Men's doubles: Norman Brookes (46 years, 2 months) in 1924
Women's doubles: Thelma Long (37 years, 7 months) in 1956

Most successive singles
Men: Roy Emerson (5) 1963-1967
Women: Margaret Smith (7) 1960-1966

Most successive doubles
Men Adrian Quist (10) 1935-1950
Women: Martina Navratilova / Pam Shriver (7) 1983-1989

Triples
(singles, doubles, mixed doubles)
Men: John Hawkes 1926; Jean Borotra 1928; Jack Crawford 1932
Women: Daphne Akhurst 1925 / 1928 / 1929; Nancye Wynne Bolton 1940 / 1947 / 1948; Thelma Long 1952; Margaret Smith 1963

Junior and Senior Champions
(singles champions who previously won junior singles title)
Men: Jack Crawford, Vivian McGrath, Adrian Quist, John Bromwich, Dinny Pails, Frank Sedgman, Ken McGregor, Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad, Rod Laver, John Newcombe, Stefan Edberg
Women: Joan Hartigan, Emily Westacott, Thelma Long, Beryl Penrose, Mary Carter-Reitano, Kerry Reid, Evonne Cawley, Chris O'Neil

Left-handed Singles Champions
Men: Horace Rice (1907), Norman Brookes (1911), John Hawkes (1926), Mervyn Rose (1954), Rod Laver (1960 / 1962 / 1969), Jimmy Connors (1974), Guillermo Vilas (Dec. 1978 / 1979), Roscoe Tanner (1977), Petr Korda (1998)
Women: Martina Navratilova (1981 / 1983 / 1985), Monica Seles (1991 / 1992 / 1993 / 1996)

Whitewash Result
Men: (6-0 6-0 6-0)
Recorded by six men - James Anderson (first round 1925), Fred Perry (quarter final 1935), John Bromwich (first round 1949), Neale Fraser (first round 1953), Martin Mulligan (first round 1960), Richard Russell (first round 1966)
Women: (6-0 6-0)
Recorded by 13 women, including four in 1998 (Mary Pierce achieving the feat twice), Margaret Court achieved the feat four times and Wendy Turnbull three times

Unseeded Champions
Men: Mark Edmondson (1976)
Women: Chris O'Neil (1978)

 

 
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