1974 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles
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1974 Wimbledon Championships | ||||||||||||
Final | ||||||||||||
Champion | United States Jimmy Connors | |||||||||||
Runner-up | Australia Ken Rosewall | |||||||||||
Score | 6–1, 6–1, 6–4 | |||||||||||
Details | ||||||||||||
Draw | 128 (16 Q ) | |||||||||||
Seeds | 12 | |||||||||||
Events | ||||||||||||
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Jimmy Connors defeated Ken Rosewall in the final, 6–1, 6–1, 6–4 to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 1974 Wimbledon Championships.[1] It was his first Wimbledon title and second major title overall. Rosewall was attempting to complete the career Grand Slam.
Jan Kodeš was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Connors.
Uniquely, due to the WCT ban in place at the 1972 championships and the ATP boycott of 1973, three unofficial 'defending champions' competed in the event. John Newcombe, Stan Smith and Kodeš were all unbeaten from their last singles matches at the championships when this year's event commenced. Newcombe and Smith were both defeated by Rosewall, in the quarterfinals and semifinals, respectively.
Seeds
[edit ]- 1. Australia John Newcombe (quarterfinals)
- 2. Romania Ilie Năstase (fourth round)
- 3. United States Jimmy Connors (champion)
- 4. United States Stan Smith (semifinals)
- 5. Sweden Björn Borg (third round)
- 6. Czechoslovakia Jan Kodeš (quarterfinals)
- 7. Netherlands Tom Okker (fourth round)
- 8. United States Arthur Ashe (third round)
- 9. Australia Ken Rosewall (final)
- 10. Soviet Union Alex Metreveli (quarterfinals)
- 11. United States Tom Gorman (fourth round)
- 12. Spain Manuel Orantes (fourth round)
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.
Qualifying
[edit ]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 ]Top half
[edit ]Section 1
[edit ]Section 2
[edit ]Section 3
[edit ]Section 4
[edit ]Bottom half
[edit ]Section 5
[edit ]Section 6
[edit ]Section 7
[edit ]Section 8
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ Barrett, John (2014). Wimbledon: The Official History (4th ed.). Vision Sports Publishing. ISBN 9-781909-534230.
External links
[edit ]- Source for the draw at Wimbledon.com
- "Wimbledon 1974 – Singles Draw". atpworldtour.com. ATP World Tour . Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- 1974 Wimbledon Championships – Men's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation