Owen Davidson

Owen Davidson (born 4 October 1943 in Melbourne) 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, Wimbledon and the U.S. Championships all in the same year-1967.

At the Australian Championships, Davidson teamed with Lesley Turner Bowrey and with King to win the other three grand slams. His best grand slam singles result was at Wimbledon in 1966, when he reached the semifinals. He is also the 1972 Australian Open and the 1973 US Open men's doubles champion, partnering John Newcombe and Ken Rosewall. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in 2010. He was inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame at the Rod Laver Arena Melbourne on 26th January 2011 (Australia Day).

Grand Slam men's doubles finals (6)

Wins (2)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1972	Australian Open	Ken Rosewall	Ross Case Geoff Masters	3–6, 7–6, 6–2
1973	US Open	John Newcombe	Rod Laver Ken Rosewall	7–5, 2–6, 7–5, 7–5

Runner-ups (4)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1966	Wimbledon	Bill Bowrey	Ken Fletcher John Newcombe	6–3, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
1967	Australian Championships	Bill Bowrey	John Newcombe Tony Roche	3–6, 6–3, 7–5, 6–8, 8–6
1967	U.S. Championships	Bill Bowrey	John Newcombe Tony Roche	6–8, 9–7, 6–3, 6–3
1972	US Open (2)	John Newcombe	Cliff Drysdale Roger Taylor	6–4, 7–6, 6–3

Grand Slam mixed doubles finals

Wins (11)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1965	Australian Championships	Robyn Ebbern	Margaret Court John Newcombe	shared championship, final not played
1966	U.S. Championships	Donna Floyd Fales	Carol Hanks Aucamp Ed Rubinoff	6–1, 6–3
1967	Australian Championships (2)	Lesley Turner Bowrey	Judy Tegart Dalton Tony Roche	9–7, 6–4
1967	French Championships	Billie Jean King	Ann Haydon Jones Ion Ţiriac	6–3, 6–1
1967	Wimbledon [1]	Billie Jean King	Maria Bueno Ken Fletcher	7–5, 6–2
1967	U.S. Championships (2)	Billie Jean King	Rosemary Casals Stan Smith	6–3, 6–2
1971	Wimbledon (2)	Billie Jean King	Margaret Court Marty Riessen	3–6, 6–2, 15–13
1971	US Open (3)	Billie Jean King	Bob Maud Betty Stöve	6–3, 7–5
1973	Wimbledon (3)	Billie Jean King	Janet Newberry Raúl Ramírez	6–3, 6–2
1973	US Open (4)	Billie Jean King	Margaret Court Marty Riessen	6–3, 3–6, 7–6
1974	Wimbledon (4)	Billie Jean King	Lesley Charles Mark Farrell	6–3, 9–7

Runner-up (1)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1968	French Open	Billie Jean King	Françoise Durr Jean Claude Barclay	6–1, 6–4

Open-era doubles titles (10)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	1969	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	John Newcombe	Pancho Gonzales Dennis Ralston	7–5, 11–13, 6–2, 6–1
2.	1969	London/Queen's Club, England	Grass	Dennis Ralston	Thomaz Koch Ove Nils Bengtson	8–6, 6–3
3.	1970	Hilversum, Netherlands	Hard	Bill Bowrey	John Alexander Phil Dent	6–3, 6–4, 6–2
4.	1971	Bournemouth, England	Clay	Bill Bowrey	Patricio Cornejo Jaime Fillol	8–6, 6–2, 3–6, 4–6, 6–3
5.	1972	Australian Open, Melbourne	Grass	Ken Rosewall	Ross Case Geoff Masters	3–6, 7–6, 6–3
6.	1973	U.S. Open, New York	Grass	John Newcombe	Roy Emerson Rod Laver	7–5, 2–6, 7–5, 7–5
7.	1973	Chicago, U.S.	Carpet	John Newcombe	Gerald Battrick Graham Stilwell	6–7, 7–6, 7–6
8.	1973	London, England	Carpet	Mark Cox	Gerald Battrick Graham Stilwell	6–4, 8–6
9.	1974	St. Petersburg WCT, U.S.	Hard	John Newcombe	Clark Graebner Charlie Pasarell	4–6, 6–3, 6–4
10.	1974	Orlando WCT, U.S.	Hard	John Newcombe	Brian Gottfried Dick Stockton	7–6, 6–3

Runner-ups (10)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	1970	Rome, Italy	Clay	Bill Bowrey	Ilie Năstase Ion Ţiriac	6–0, 8–10, 3–6, 8–6, 1–6
2.	1970	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Bob Carmichael	Arthur Ashe Stan Smith	0–6, 7–5, 5–7
3.	1972	U.S. Open, New York	Grass	John Newcombe	Cliff Drysdale Roger Taylor	4–6, 6–7, 4–6
4.	1973	Montreal, Canada	Hard	John Newcombe	Rod Laver Ken Rosewall	5–7, 6–7
5.	1973	Fort Worth, U.S.	Hard	John Newcombe	Brian Gottfried Dick Stockton	6–7, 4–6
6.	1974	Baltimore, U.S.	Carpet	Clark Graebner	Jürgen Fassbender Karl Meiler	6–7, 5–7
7.	1974	New Orleans WCT, U.S.		John Newcombe	Robert Lutz Stan Smith	6–4, 4–6, 6–7
8.	1974	Charlotte, U.S.	Clay	John Newcombe	Buster Mottram Raúl Ramírez	3–6, 6–1, 3–6
9.	1974	World Doubles WCT, Montreal	Carpet	John Newcombe	Bob Hewitt Frew McMillan	2–6, 7–6, 1–6, 2–6
10.	1974	Maui, U.S.	Hard	John Newcombe	Dick Stockton Roscoe Tanner	3–6, 6–7

References

1. ^ The Championships, Wimbledon 2007 - Grand Slam Tennis - Official Site by IBM

External links

• Owen Davidson Biography
• Owen Davidson at the Association of Tennis Professionals

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