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Alex Olmedo

This page provides a comprehensive overview of Alex Olmedo’s Grand Slam career. It combines key background information and career-level statistics with a complete, filterable list of his tournament results, showing how far he progressed in each Grand Slam event across his career.

Insights

Two amateur-era titles, plus a US Open final

Olmedo’s amateur-era peak is concentrated in 1959: he won Wimbledon and the Australian Open, and also reached the US Open final. Across the four amateur-era Slam entries shown, that is three finals-level results and only one quarterfinal exit.

His Open Era return was steady but far shallower

From 1968 to 1972, every listed result is between R32 and R128. He reached R32 twice in 1968 and then never advanced beyond the third round-equivalent again, with three R64s and three R128s completing the Open-era record.

All 13 Slam appearances produced a 32-11 record

The table lists 13 tournaments and 43 matches, with a 32-11 win-loss record. That works out to 74% wins, showing a career that was heavily front-loaded with success before the later Open-era results lowered the overall profile.

1959 was his only year with multiple deep runs

In 1959 alone, he posted Wimbledon champion, Australian Open champion, and US Open finalist results. No other year in the data shows more than one result at that level, making 1959 the clear concentration point of his Grand Slam peak.

His listed nationality changes align with the career split

The fundamentals show Peru for 1958-1959 and the United States from 1959 onward. The results table reflects both labels, with Peru attached to some 1958-1959 entries and United States attached to the later Open-era appearances.

Basics

Born 24 March 1936
GenderMale
Nation

1959-

United States

1958-1959

Peru

EraAmateur Era and Open Era
Grand Slam careerCareer1958-1959, 1968-1972

Grand Slam statistics

Tournaments13
Best results
Open Era
2 x R32
4 x R64
3 x R128
Best results
Amateur Era
2 x champion
1 x finalist
1 x quarterfinalist
Total matches43
W/L-record32-11 (74% won)

Grand Slam results

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During the Amateur Era, only top results (quarterfinals or better) from 1945 onwards are listed on this site. Therefore, the list below may not include all Amateur Era results.

Alex Olmedo – Grand Slam results (year, tournament, result, age)
YearTournamentEraResultAgeNation
1972US OpenOpen EraR6436United States
1972WimbledonOpen EraR6436United States
1972French OpenOpen EraR6436United States
1971US OpenOpen EraR12835United States
1970US OpenOpen EraR6434United States
1969WimbledonOpen EraR12833United States
1969French OpenOpen EraR12833United States
1968US OpenOpen EraR3232United States
1968WimbledonOpen EraR3232United States
1959US OpenAmateur EraF23United States
1959WimbledonAmateur EraW23Peru
1959Australian OpenAmateur EraW22United States
1958US OpenAmateur EraQ22Peru