1940 Australian Championships (tennis)

List of Champions of the 1940 Australian Championships (now known as the Australian Open):

Men's Singles

Adrian Karl Quist was an Australian male tennis player.-Biography:Adrian Quist was born in Medindie, South Australia. The tennis legend grew up in Adelaide and once played Harry Hopman, however he lost, only because he gave Hopman a head start...

defeated

Jack Crawford

Jack Crawford (tennis player)

----John Herbert Crawford was an Australian tennis player of the 1930s. He was the World No. 1 player for 1933.Crawford was born in Urangeline, near Albury, New South Wales...

6-3 6-1 6-2

Women's Singles

Nancye Wynne Bolton

Nancye Wynne Bolton was a female tennis player from Australia. She won the women's singles title six times at the Australian Championships, second only to Margaret Court who won 11 titles...

defeated

Thelma Coyne Long

Thelma Dorothy Coyne Long was one of the female tennis players who dominated Australian tennis from the mid-1930s to the 1950s.-Tennis career:...

5-7, 6-4, 6-0

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