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Kenneth Robert Rosewall AM MBE (born 2 November 1934) is an Australian former world top-ranking professional tennis player. Rosewall won 147 singles titles, including a record 15 Pro Majors and 8 Grand Slam titles for a total 23 titles at pro and amateur majors. He also won 15 Pro Majors in doubles and 9 Grand Slam doubles titles.
Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player who was a major competitor for 25 years, winning 18 Grand Slam titles, 8 of which were in men’s singles. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1980. Learn more about Rosewall’s life and career, including his other Grand Slam championships.
Australian tennis player Ken Rosewall ca. 1954. This is a list of the main career statistics of Australian former tennis player Ken Rosewall whose playing career ran from 1951 until 1980. He played as an amateur from 1951 until the end of 1956 when he joined Jack Kramer's professional circuit. As a professional he was banned from playing the Grand Slam tournaments as well as other tournaments ...
Davis Cup. Member of the Australian Davis Cup Team 1953-1956, 1973, 1975 Member of the Australian Championship Davis Cup Team 1953, 1955-1956, 1973
Jan 28, 2023 · Australian tennis great Ken Rosewall - the oldest man to win a major - is unfazed if the record slips from his grasp. Rosewall had a prodigiously successful career spanning decades and famously ...
Jan 11, 2021 · Ken Rosewall's career spanned the amateur, professional, and Open Eras. He won Slams in three different decades and was in the Top-20 for 25 consecutive year...
Ken Rosewall, “Muscles” to his friends, was one of the Australian greats of tennis. In a career that continued into his 40s, Rosewall amassed a collection of 18 major…
As the Doomsday Stroking Machine, the remarkable Kenneth Robert "Muscles" Rosewall was a factor in three decades of tennis, winning his first major titles, the Australian and French singles in 1953 as a teenager, and continuing as a tournament winner past his 43rd birthday.
May 9, 2018 · In an age of giants of the game – Rod Laver, Lew Hoad, Pancho Gonzales, John Newcombe, Arthur Ashe – Ken Rosewall stood as tall as any of them during a Hall of Fame career that ran an astonishing three decades through the amateur, professional and Open eras.
Legendary for his perfect backhand, his nickname (Muscles - an ironic reference to his slight frame), and his on-court agility, four-time Australian champion Ken Rosewall is probably most famous for the longevity of his campaign Down Under. In 1953 Rosewall's parents listened on the radio as the 18 ...
