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Roy S. Emerson AC

Born 1930s.

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Son of Roy Tindall Emerson and Phyllis Mabel (Lawrence) Emerson

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Biography

Roy 'Emmo' Emerson AC is an Australian former tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand Slam doubles titles. He is the only male player to have completed a career Grand Slam in both singles and doubles. His 28 major titles are the all-time record for a male player. He was a member of a record eight Davis Cup winning teams between 1959 and 1967.

Roy Stanley Emerson was born on 3rd November 1936 in Blackbutt, in the South Burnett Region of Queensland, Australia. He is the son of Roy Emerson and Phyllis Lawrence. His family later moved to Brisbane, his father establishing a tennis centre at The Grange. Roy Junior attended Brisbane Grammar School.

He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1982; the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1986; ^[1] and the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame in 2009. The main court for the Suisse Open in Gstaad, a tournament which Roy won five times and where he played his last match as a professional, is named Roy Emerson Arena in his honour.

In August 2000, he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal as a 'wonderful competitor and outstanding sportsman', ^[2] and on 1st January 2001 received the Centenary Medal for 'service to Australian society through the sport of tennis'. ^[3]

The Roy Emerson Trophy, which is awarded to the male champion at the Brisbane International, is named in his honour.

Blackbutt has remembered their favouite son, with the Roy Emerson Museum opened in 2014, by Roy. ^[4] On 18th January 2017 a Statue of Roy was unveiled at the Blackbutt Museum. ^[5]

The highest honour Australia could bestow on Roy was made on Australia Day 2019: appointment to Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for 'eminent service to tennis as a player at the national and international level, to the promotion of the sport, and as an inspiration to young sportspersons'. ^[6]

Roy presently resides in Newport Beach, California with his wife, and daughter, and has a home in Gstaad, where he holds a tennis clinic each summer. His son, Antony, was an All-American in tennis at Corona del Mar High School and the University of Southern California and played on the professional tour briefly. Roy and Antony won the United States Hard Court Father-and-Son title in 1978.

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Wikipedia: Roy Emerson; accessed 30 Jan 2022.

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