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1953 French Championships (tennis)

Index 1953 French Championships (tennis)

The 1953 French Championships (now known as the French Open) was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France. [1]

19 relations: Clay court, Clive Wilderspin, Doris Hart, France, French Open, Grand Slam (tennis), Julia Sampson Hayward, Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad, Maureen Connolly, Mervyn Rose, Paris, Shirley Fry, Stade Roland Garros, Tennis, Vic Seixas, 16th arrondissement of Paris, 1953 Australian Championships, 1953 Wimbledon Championships.

Clay court

A clay court is one of many different types of tennis court.

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Clive Wilderspin

Clive Wilderspin (born 3 April 1930) is an Australian former tennis player who was active from the late 1940s until the mid-1950s.

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Doris Hart

Doris Hart (June 20, 1925 – May 29, 2015) was a World No.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French Open

The French Open (Championnats Internationaux de France de Tennis), officially called Roland-Garros, is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France.

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Grand Slam (tennis)

The Grand Slam tournaments, also called majors, are the four most important annual tennis events.

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Julia Sampson Hayward

Julia Ann Sampson Hayward (née Sampson; February 2, 1934 – December 27, 2011) was a female tennis player from the United States who was active in the 1950s.

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Ken Rosewall

Kenneth Robert Rosewall (born 2 November 1934) is a former world top-ranking amateur and professional tennis player from Australia.

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Lew Hoad

Lewis Alan Hoad (23 November 1934 – 3 July 1994) was an Australian World No. 1 tennis player.

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Maureen Connolly

Maureen Catherine Connolly-Brinker (née Connolly; September 17, 1934 – June 21, 1969) known as "Little Mo", was an American tennis player, the winner of nine Grand Slam singles titles in the early 1950s.

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Mervyn Rose

Mervyn Gordon Rose AM (23 January 1930 – 23 July 2017) was an Australian male tennis player who won 7 Grand Slam titles (singles, doubles and mixed doubles).

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Shirley Fry

Shirley June Fry Irvin (née Fry; born June 30, 1927) is a former world No.

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Stade Roland Garros

Stade Roland Garros ("Roland Garros Stadium") is a tennis venue located in Paris, France, that hosts the French Open—also known as Roland Garros, particularly within Europe—a Grand Slam championship tournament played annually around the end of May and the beginning of June.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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Vic Seixas

Elias Victor Seixas Jr. (pronounced SAY-shus; born August 30, 1923) Los Angeles Times.

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16th arrondissement of Paris

The 16th arrondissement of Paris (XVIe arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France.

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1953 Australian Championships

The 1953 Australian Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on outdoor Grass courts at the Kooyong Stadium in Melbourne, Australia from 9 January to 17 January.

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1953 Wimbledon Championships

The 1953 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom.

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1953 French Amateur.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_French_Championships_(tennis)

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