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 organized by the national associations of the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF). In 1968, with the advent of the Open Era, the distinction between amateurs and professionals disappeared and Rosewall was again able to compete in most[a] Grand Slam events until the end of his career in 1978. During his career he won eight Grand Slam, 15 Pro Slam and three Davis Cup titles.
Major finals
Grand Slam finals
Singles: 16 finals (8 titles, 8 runner-ups)
Pro Slam finals
Singles * : 15 titles, 4 runner-ups
* other events (important professional tournaments – 2 runners-up)
WCT year end championship
Singles: 2 titles
Performance timeline
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
Ken Rosewall joined professional tennis in 1957 and was unable to compete in 45 Grand Slam tournaments until the open era arrives in 1968. Summarizing Grand Slam and Pro Slam tournaments, Rosewall won 23 titles, he has a winning record of 242–46 which represents 84.02% spanning 28 years.
Ken Rosewall Singles finals:(251)
Singles titles 147, Runners-Up 104
Amateur era
Singles (1951–1956) : 26 titles
Professional era
Singles (1957–1968) : 64 titles
Notes:
1 : 4-men tournaments
2 : Players take turns challenging the winner of the last game. Rosewall was the one who won the most matches.
3 : 1 listed by the ATP website
Open era
Ken Rosewall at a tournament in Scheveningen, The Netherlands in 1970
Singles (1968–1977) : 43 titles (including 39[b] listed by the ATP website)
Rosewall won 17 out of 19 Davis Cup singles matches and 2 out of 3 doubles. Rosewall was a member of the victorious Australian Davis Cup teams in 1953, 1955, 1956 and 1973, in all cases defeating USA in the final. He did not personally participate in the 1973 final.
Kramer Cup
In this pro "Davis Cup-format" team event, held just 3 years (1961–1963) and opposing the subcontinents Australia, Europe, North America and South America, Rosewall won 9 out of 10 singles matches and 4 out of 5 doubles. Australia won all three editions.
Head to head
Rosewall's win–loss record against top players is as follows.
Notes
^Power struggles between the ILTF and the commercial promoters National Tennis League (NTL) and World Championship Tennis (WCT) resulted in Rosewall missing a number of Grand Slam tournaments during the early 1970s.
^The Paris NTL event took place prior to the open era but is listed on the ATP website as it took place in 1968, the year the open era started.
References
^McCauley, Joe (2003). The History of Professional Tennis. Windsor, Berkshire, England: , Short Run Book Company. p. 245. ASIN B001EOVE56.
^McCauley, Joe (2003). The History of Professional Tennis. Windsor, Berkshire, England: , Short Run Book Company. p. 246. ASIN B001EOVE56. (United States)
Sources
Joe McCauley, The History of Professional Tennis, London 2001.
Michel Sutter, Vainqueurs Winners 1946–2003, Paris 2003.
Tony Trabert, Tennis de France.
Robert Geist, Der Grösste Meister Die denkwürdige Karriere des australischen Tennisspielers Kenneth Robert Rosewall, Vienna 1999.
Bud Collins, The Bud Collins History of Tennis, 2008.
