The 1972 Australian Open was a tennis

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 tournament played on grass court

Grass court

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s at the Kooyong Stadium

Kooyong Stadium

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 in Melbourne

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 in Australia

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. It was the 60th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 26 December 1971 to 3 January 1972.

Men's Singles

  Ken Rosewall

Ken Rosewall

Kenneth Robert Rosewall AM MBE is a former world top-ranking amateur and professional tennis player from Australia. He won 23 Majors including eight Grand Slam singles titles and before the Open Era a record fifteen Pro Slam titles . Rosewall won 9 slams in doubles with a career double grand slam...

defeated   Malcolm Anderson

Malcolm Anderson

Malcolm "Mal" J. Anderson was a top-ranking Australian tennis player from the middle 1950s to the early 1970s....

 7–6, 6–3, 7–5

• It was Rosewall's 16th career Grand Slam title and his 6th Australian title.

Women's Singles

  Virginia Wade

Virginia Wade

Sarah Virginia Wade, OBE is a former English tennis player. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships. She won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, in that tournament's centenary year, the last time any Briton has won a...

defeated   Evonne Goolagong

Evonne Goolagong

Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley, AO, MBE is a former World No. 1 Australian female tennis player. She was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s, when she won 14 Grand Slam titles: seven in singles , six in women's doubles, and one in mixed doubles.-Early life:Goolagong is the...

 6–4, 6–4

• It was Wade's 2nd career Grand Slam title and her 1st Australian title.

Men's Doubles

  Owen Davidson

Owen Davidson

' was a professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s.Partnering Billie Jean King, Davidson managed to win eight grand slam mixed doubles titles. Davidson was one of very few to win a calendar year slam for mixed doubles, when he won the Australian Championships, French Championships,...

/   Ken Rosewall

Ken Rosewall

Kenneth Robert Rosewall AM MBE is a former world top-ranking amateur and professional tennis player from Australia. He won 23 Majors including eight Grand Slam singles titles and before the Open Era a record fifteen Pro Slam titles . Rosewall won 9 slams in doubles with a career double grand slam...

defeated   Ross Case

Ross Case

Ross Case was an Australian tennis player.With Geoff Masters he won two Grand Slam titles: the 1974 doubles at the Australian Open and the 1977 doubles at Wimbledon. He was also runner up in 1976 at Wimbledon...

 /   Geoff Masters

Geoff Masters

Geoff Masters is a former Australian tennis player.-Tennis tour career:In 1977 Masters and Ross Case won the doubles in Wimbledon.-Doubles titles :-Post-tennis playing career:...

 3–6, 7–6, 6–3

• It was Davidson's 1st career Grand Slam title and his only Australian title. It was Rosewall's 17th career Grand Slam title of the year and his 7th and last Australian title.

Women's Doubles

  Helen Gourlay

Helen Gourlay

Helen Gourlay Cawley is a retired female tennis player from Australia.She was born in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia....

/   Kerry Harris

Kerry Harris

Kerri Harris is an Australian former professional tennis player, active from 1967 to 1975, who reached the semi-final of the 1972 Australian Open, and reached four Grand Slam doubles finals, of which she won one, in the 1972 Australian Open.-Career:Harris first reached a Grand Slam final in the...

defeated   Patricia Coleman /   Karen Krantzcke

Karen Krantzcke

Karen Krantzcke was an Australian tennis player who achieved a World Top Ten singles ranking in 1970. In her short career, she made the quarterfinals or better at each of the four Grand Slam championships...

6–0, 6–4

• It was Gourlay's 1st career Grand Slam title and her 1st Australian title. It was Harris' only career Grand Slam title and her only Australian title.

Mixed Doubles

Competition not held between 1970 and 1986.