1951 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles
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| Men's singles | ||||||||||||
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| 1951 Wimbledon Championships | ||||||||||||
| Final | ||||||||||||
| Champion | United States Dick Savitt | |||||||||||
| Runner-up | Australia Ken McGregor | |||||||||||
| Score | 6–4, 6–4, 6–4 | |||||||||||
| Details | ||||||||||||
| Draw | 128 (10 Q ) | |||||||||||
| Seeds | 10 | |||||||||||
| Events | ||||||||||||
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1951 tennis event results
Main article: 1951 Wimbledon Championships
In the 1951 Wimbledon Championships – Gentlemen's Singles tennis competition, Dick Savitt defeated Ken McGregor in the final, 6–4, 6–4, 6–4 to win the title.[1] He was the second ever American to win the Wimbledon and Australian tournaments in the same year.[2] Number 4 seed Budge Patty was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to another American, the unseeded 17-year-old Ham Richardson.
Progress of the competition
[edit ]After defeating Patty, Richardson went out in the fourth round, losing to another unseeded player, the Brazilian Armando Vieira; this was Vieira's most successful Wimbledon, but he lost in the quarterfinals to South Africa's Eric Sturgess, a former world number one,[3] in straight sets. McGregor reached the final by defeating Sturgess in the semifinals.
Seeds
[edit ]- 1. Australia Frank Sedgman (quarterfinals)
- 2. Egypt Jaroslav Drobný (third round)
- 3. United States Art Larsen (quarterfinals)
- 4. United States Budge Patty (second round)
- 5. United States Herbie Flam (semifinals)
- 6. United States Dick Savitt (champion)
- 7. Australia Ken McGregor (final)
- 8. South Africa Eric Sturgess (semifinals)
- 9. United States Gardnar Mulloy (third round)
- 10. Sweden Lennart Bergelin (quarterfinals)
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.
Draw
[edit ]Key
[edit ]- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild card
- LL = Lucky loser
- Alt = Alternate
- SE = Special exempt
- PR = Protected ranking
- ITF = ITF entry
- JE = Junior exempt
- w/o = Walkover
- r = Retired
- d = Defaulted
- SR = Special ranking
Finals
[edit ] Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final
1
Australia Frank Sedgman
6
6
3
4
5
5
United States Herbie Flam
2
1
6
6
7
5
United States Herbie Flam
6
13
3
2
6
United States Dick Savitt
1
15
6
6
3
United States Art Larsen
1
4
4
6
United States Dick Savitt
6
6
6
6
United States Dick Savitt
6
6
6
7
Australia Ken McGregor
4
4
4
8
South Africa Eric Sturgess
6
6
6
Brazil Armando Vieira
2
0
3
8
South Africa Eric Sturgess
4
6
3
5
7
Australia Ken McGregor
6
3
6
7
7
Australia Ken McGregor
6
4
5
6
6
10
Sweden Lennart Bergelin
0
6
7
2
4
Top half
[edit ]Section 1
[edit ] First round
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
1
Australia Frank Sedgman
6
6
6
United Kingdom Headley Baxter
6
2
1
2
Section 2
[edit ] First round
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
5
United States Herbie Flam
6
6
6
Q
Hungary András Kálmán
4
4
4
Section 3
[edit ] First round
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
3
United States Art Larsen
6
6
0
6
United Kingdom Derek Bull
4
2
9
6
6
United Kingdom D Bull
1
7
4
4
Iran Matthew Mohtadi
6
6
7
3
3
Section 4
[edit ] First round
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
6
United States Dick Savitt
6
6
6
United Kingdom Edmund David
6
6
6
United Kingdom E David
1
1
1
Czechoslovakia Vladimír Černík
6
4
4
7
6
Bottom half
[edit ]Section 5
[edit ] First round
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
Belgium Ivan Devroe
2
3
2
Q
United States Jack Morison
6
4
2
7
1
United Kingdom D Shaw
1
4
3
Jamaica Frank Mott-Trille
4
4
4
South Africa S Davidson
3
3
2
8
South Africa Eric Sturgess
6
6
6
Section 6
[edit ] First round
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
United Kingdom Tommy Anderson
4
6
6
6
United Kingdom T Anderson
6
6
4
6
1
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vladimir Petrović
7
2
6
5
6
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia V Petrović
6
0
2
5
4
United States Budge Patty
6
6
6
Section 7
[edit ] First round
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
Czechoslovakia Bohuslav Hykš
2
0
0
South Africa Leon Norgarb
7
6
6
South Africa L Norgarb
6
4
3
6
2
7
Australia Ken McGregor
8
6
3
6
Section 8
[edit ] First round
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
Italy Giovanni Cucelli
6
6
6
New Zealand Athol Tills
6
6
1
6
New Zealand A Tills
3
1
4
2
Egypt Jaroslav Drobný
9
6
6
References
[edit ]- ^ Barrett, John (2014). Wimbledon: The Official History (4th ed.). Vision Sports Publishing. ISBN 9-781909-534230.
- ^ Bud Collins; Zander Hollander (May 1997). Bud Collins' tennis encyclopedia. Visible Ink Press. p. 495.
- ^ United States Lawn Tennis Association (1972). Official Encyclopedia of Tennis (First Edition), p. 426.
External links
[edit ]- Source for the draw at Wimbledon.com