1968 Wimbledon Championships

1968 Wimbledon Championships
Date 24 June – 6 July
Edition 82nd
Category Grand Slam (ITF)
Draw 128S / 64D / 128MX
Prize money £26,150
Surface Grass
Location Church Road
SW19, Wimbledon,
London, United Kingdom
Champions
Men's Singles
Australia Rod Laver [1]
Women's Singles
United States Billie Jean King [2]
Men's Doubles
Australia John Newcombe / Australia Tony Roche [3]
Women's Doubles
United States Billie Jean King / United States Rosie Casals [4]
Mixed Doubles
Australia Ken Fletcher / Australia Margaret Court [5]
Boys' Singles
Australia John Alexander
Girls' Singles
United States Kristy Pigeon

The 1968 Wimbledon Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 24 June until 6 July. It was the 82nd staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam tennis event of 1968.

This tournament started the open era for Wimbledon, as it became the second Grand Slam tournament to offer prize money and allow professionals to compete after the 1968 French Open.[6][7] Singles champions Laver and King had already won Wimbledon twice before in the amateur era.

Prize money

The 1968 championships was the first edition of the tournament to offer prize money. The total prize money for the event was £26,150. The winner of the men's title earned £2,000 while the women's singles champion earned £750.[8][9]

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round of 128
Men's Singles £2,000 £1,300 £750 £400 £150 £100 £75 £50
Women's Singles £750 £450 £300 £150 £90 £50 £35 £25
Men's Doubles * £800 £500 £350 £180 £0 £0 £0 N/A
Women's Doubles* £500 £300 £150 £100 £0 £0 £0 N/A
Mixed Doubles* £450 £300 £150 £100 £0 £0 £0 £0

* per team

Champions

Men's singles

Australia Rod Laver defeated Australia Tony Roche, 6–3, 6–4, 6–2

Women's singles

United States Billie Jean King defeated Australia Judy Tegart Dalton, 7–5, 9–7

Men's doubles

Australia John Newcombe / Australia Tony Roche defeated Australia Ken Rosewall / Australia Fred Stolle, 6–3, 6–8, 14–12, 6–3

Women's doubles

United States Rosemary Casals / United States Billie Jean King defeated France Françoise Dürr / United Kingdom Ann Haydon-Jones, 3–6, 6–4, 7–5

Mixed doubles

Australia Margaret Court / Australia Ken Fletcher defeated Soviet Union Alex Metreveli / Soviet Union Olga Morozova, 6–1, 14–12

Boys' Singles

Australia John Alexander defeated France Jacques Thamin, 6–1, 6–2

Girls' Singles

United States Kristy Pigeon defeated Australia Lesley Hunt, 6–4, 6–3

Seeds

Men's singles

  1.  Rod Laver (AUS) (Champion)
  2.  Ken Rosewall (AUS) (Fourth round, lost to Tony Roche)
  3.  Andrés Gimeno (ESP) (Third round, lost to Raymond Moore)
  4.  John Newcombe (AUS) (Fourth round, lost to Arthur Ashe)
  5.  Roy Emerson (AUS) (Fourth round, lost to Tom Okker)
  6.  Manuel Santana (ESP) (Third round, lost to Clark Graebner)
  7.  Lew Hoad (AUS) (Third round, lost to Bob Hewitt)
  8.  Richard Pancho Gonzales (USA) (Third round, lost to Alex Metreveli)
  9.  Dennis Ralston (USA) (Quarter-finals, lost to Rod Laver)
  10.  Earl Butch Buchholz (USA) (Quarter-finals, lost to Tony Roche)
  11.  Fred Stolle (AUS) (Fourth round, lost to Clark Graebner)
  12.  Tom Okker (NED) (Quarter-finals, lost to Arthur Ashe)
  13.  Arthur Ashe (USA) (Semi-finals, lost to Rod Laver)
  14.  Cliff Drysdale (RSA) (Third round, lost to Tom Edlefsen)
  15.  Tony Roche (AUS) (Final, lost to Rod Laver)
  16.  Nikola Pilić (YUG) (First round, lost to Herb Fitzgibbon)

Women's singles

  1.  Billie Jean King (USA) (Champion)
  2.  Margaret Court (AUS) (Quarterfinals, lost to Judy Tegart)
  3.  Nancy Richey (USA) (Semifinals, lost to Judy Tegart)
  4.  Ann Jones (GBR) (Semifinals, lost to Billie Jean King)
  5.  Virginia Wade (GBR) (First Round, lost to Christina Sandberg)
  6.  Maria Bueno (BRA) (Quarterfinals, lost to Nancy Richey)
  7.  Judy Tegart (AUS) (Final, lost to Billie Jean King)
  8.  Lesley Bowrey (AUS) (Quarterfinals, lost to Billie Jean King)

References

  1. ↑ "1968 Wimbledon Men's Singes draw". ATP.
  2. ↑ "Wimbledon draws archive – Ladies' Singles 1968" (pdf). AELTC.
  3. ↑ "1968 Wimbledon Men's Doubles draw". ATP.
  4. ↑ "Wimbledon draws archive – Ladies' Doubles 1968" (pdf). AELTC.
  5. ↑ "Wimbledon draws archive – Mixed Doubles 1968" (pdf). AELTC.
  6. ↑ "Open tennis accepted for Wimbledon". espn.go.com. ESPN. 14 December 1967.
  7. ↑ "Open Tennis Tourneys Approved by British". Spokane Daily Chronicle. AP. 14 December 1967. p. 31.
  8. ↑ Little, Alan (2013). Wimbledon Compendium 2013 (23 ed.). London: All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club. pp. 327–334. ISBN 978-1899039401.
  9. ↑ John Barrett, ed. (1969). BP Year Book of World Tennis. London, Sydney: Ward Lock & Co. Ltd. p. 52. OCLC 502175694.

External links

Preceded by
1968 French Open		 Grand Slams Succeeded by
1968 US Open
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