1974 Australian Open – Men's singles: Difference between revisions

[[Jimmy Connors]] defeated [[Phil Dent]] in the final, 7–6^(9–7), 6–4, 4–6, 6–3 to win the Menmen's Singlessingles tennis title at the 1974 Australian Open. [[John Newcombe]]It was thehis defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals tofirst [[RossGrand CaseSlam (tennis)#Tournaments|major]] title. For the first time in the [[Open Era (tennis)|Open Era]], none of the semifinalists at a [[Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments|major]] had previously won a major title.

[[John Newcombe]] was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to [[Ross Case]].

[[Björn Borg]] competed in the [[Australian Open]] this year for the first and only time in his career. He lost to Dent in the third round.

The format was the same as the previous year with the first round the best -of 3 -three-sets and the rest of the tournament best -of 5 -five-sets.

# {{flagicon|AUS}} [[John Newcombe]] ''(Quarterfinalsquarterfinals)''

# {{flagicon|USA}} '''[[Jimmy Connors]] (Championchampion)'''

# {{flagicon|AUS}} [[John Alexander (tennis)|John Alexander]] ''(Semifinalssemifinals)''

# {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Björn Borg]] ''(Thirdthird Roundround)''

# {{flagicon|FRG}} [[Karl Meiler]] ''(Secondsecond Roundround)''

# {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Colin Dibley]] ''(Quarterfinalsquarterfinals)''

# {{flagicon|NZL}} [[Onny Parun]] ''(Thirdthird Roundround)''

# {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Ross Case]] ''(Semifinalssemifinals)''

# {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Phil Dent]] ''(Finalfinal)''

# {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Dick Crealy]] ''(Thirdthird Roundround)''

# {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Geoff Masters]] ''(Firstfirst Roundround)''

# {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Allan Stone]] ''(Thirdthird Roundround)''

# {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Bob Giltinan]] ''(Quarterfinalsquarterfinals)''

# {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Barry Phillips-Moore]] ''(Thirdthird Roundround)''

# {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Bob Carmichael]] ''(Firstfirst Roundround)''

# {{flagicon|AUS}} [[John Cooper (tennis)|John Cooper]] ''(Firstfirst Roundround)''

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