Neale Fraser
| Full name |
Neale Andrew Fraser |
| Country |
Australia |
| Residence |
Australia |
| Born |
3 October 1933 (age 78)
Melbourne, Victoria |
| Height |
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Retired |
1963 |
| Plays |
Left-handed |
| Int. Tennis HOF |
1984 (member page) |
| Singles |
| Highest ranking |
No. 1 |
| Grand Slam results |
| Australian Open |
RU (1957, 1959, 1960) |
| Wimbledon |
W (1960) |
| US Open |
W (1959, 1960) |
| Doubles |
| Highest ranking |
No. 1 |
| Grand Slam Doubles results |
| Australian Open |
W (1957, 1958, 1962) |
| French Open |
W (1958, 1960, 1962) |
| Wimbledon |
W (1959, 1961) |
| US Open |
W (1957, 1959, 1960) |
| Mixed Doubles |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results |
| Australian Open |
W (1956) |
| Wimbledon |
W (1962) |
| US Open |
W (1958, 1959, 1960) |
| Last updated on: N/A. |
Neale Andrew Fraser AO MBE (born 3 October 1933) is a former tennis player from Australia, born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of a Victorian judge. He began playing tennis at age 11 and attended St Kevin's College, Melbourne (Class of 1950) where he became Captain of Tennis at the school.[citation needed]
Fraser won Wimbledon in 1960 and the US title in 1959 and 1960. Team play – doubles and Davis Cup – proved nearest to his heart. In doubles, Fraser took three Australian (1957, 1958, and 1962), French (1958, 1960, and 1962) and US (1957, 1959, and 1960) titles, and two Wimbledon (1959, and 1961) with three different partners, Ashley Cooper, Lew Hoad, and Roy Emerson.
Fraser was also successful in the mixed doubles, winning the Australian in 1956 with Beryl Penrose, Wimbledon in 1962, and the US from 1958 to 1960 with Margaret Osborne Du Pont. He holds the distinction of having won the US National (now Open) singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles in 1959 and then successfully defending those titles a year later. Since that time, no one has equalled that feat in a single year, let alone successively.
He was ranked number one in 1959 and 1960 and was in the top ten every year between 1956 and 1962. He retired in 1963.
Fraser became Davis Cup Captain for the Australian team in 1970, holding the position for a record 24 years and piloting Australia to four wins in 1973, 1977, 1983 and 1986, and recording 55 wins from 75 ties played.
Fraser is one of the twenty men to win all four majors in doubles and in 1984 he was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
He was honoured with an MBE in 1974 and an AO in 1988. He was Chairman of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame from 1997 until 2005. In 2008 he received the International Tennis Federation’s highest honour, the Phillippe Chartier Award for outstanding achievements in tennis.
Fraser was also the Centenary Ambassador for Davis Cup, and was the first recipient of the ITF and International Hall of Fame’s Davis Cup Award of Excellence.
Neale Fraser is married with children and grandchildren. He was voted Victorian Father of the Year in 1974.[1]
Grand Slam record
- Australian Championships
- Singles finalist: 1957, 1959, 1960
- Men's Doubles champion: 1957 (w/Lew Hoad), 1958 (w/Ashley Cooper), 1962 (w/Roy Emerson)
- Men's Doubles finalist: 1954 (w/Clive Wilderspin), 1960 (w/Roy Emerson)
- Mixed Doubles champion: 1956 (w/Beryl Penrose)
- French championships
- Men's Doubles champion: 1958 (w/Ashley Cooper), 1960, 1962 (w/Roy Emerson)
- Men's Doubles finalist: 1959 (w/Roy Emerson)
- Wimbledon
- Singles champion: 1960
- Singles finalist: 1958
- Men's Doubles champion: 1959, 1961 (w/Roy Emerson)
- Men's Doubles finalist: 1955, 1957, 1958, 1973 (w/John Cooper)
- Mixed Doubles champion: 1962 (w/Margaret Osborne du Pont)
- Mixed Doubles finalist: 1957 (w/Althea Gibson), 1959 (w/Maria Bueno)
- U.S. Championships
- Singles champion: 1959, 1960
- Men's Doubles champion: 1957 (w/Ashley Cooper), 1959 (w/Roy Emerson), 1960
- Mixed Doubles champion: 1958, 1959, 1960 (w/Margaret Osborne du Pont)
References
- ^ www.fathersdaycouncil.org.au
External links
| v · d · eU.S. National Championships men's singles champions |
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| v · d · ePre Open Era Wimbledon gentlemen's doubles champions |
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| v · d · eU.S. National Championships men's doubles champions |
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| v · d · eU.S. National Championships mixed doubles champions |
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