This year marks the 50th anniversary of TENNIS Magazine's founding in 1965 ... site of the least-grand of the Slams at the time, the Australian Open. By the early 70s, the sun was setting on ...

Best Result: R3 1974 Borg remains one of the most iconic figures in tennis history and was a dominant force across the late 1970s and early 1980s, though only ever made one Australian Open appearance.

The nation has produced an array of tennis greats and ... notably winning the French Open in 1968, the US Open in 1970, and the Australian Open in 1971 and 1972. The Australian icon was 43 ...

Fred Stolle, an Australian tennis star who won 19 ... singles tournaments through the 1970s. In 1981, he and Newcombe made it all the way to the U.S. Open semifinals, where they lost to eventual ...

The Australian Open is the first ... Christchurch and Hastings. In 1982, the Open finally settled in a firm location, the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in Melbourne. The name of the tournament was ...