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1967 Australian Championships | |
1966 Champions | Roy Emerson Fred Stolle |
Champions | John Newcombe Tony Roche |
Runners-up | William Bowrey Owen Davidson |
Final score | 3–6, 6–3, 7–5, 6–8, 8–6 |
Roy Emerson and Fred Stolle were the defending champions but only Roy Emerson did compete this year.
John Newcombe and Tony Roche won the final 3–6, 6–3, 7–5, 6–8, 8–6 against William Bowrey and Owen Davidson
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top two seeded teams received byes into the second round.
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2 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 |
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4 | 4 | 4 | D Candy B Phillips-Moore | 4 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
D Candy B Phillips-Moore | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2 | 11 | 6 | 8 |
Rod Laver defeated Andrés Gimeno in the final, 6–3, 6–4, 7–5 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 1969 Australian Open. It was the first step in an eventual Grand Slam for Laver. This was the first edition of the tournament to be open to professional players, marking a period in tennis history known as the Open Era.
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First-seeded Roy Emerson defeated Arthur Ashe 6–4, 6–1, 6–4 in the final to win the men's singles tennis title at the 1967 Australian Championships. This was his sixth Australian men's singles crown which stood as an all time male record until it was surpassed in 2019 by Novak Djokovic.
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