Cliff Drysdale

This page provides a comprehensive overview of Cliff Drysdale’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.

Basics

Born	26 May 1941
Gender	Male
Nation	South Africa
Era	Amateur Era and Open Era
Grand Slam careerCareer	1964-1980
Strengths	Net play Experience Variety
Less strong	Baseline power Movement

Grand Slam statistics

Tournaments	27
Best results Open Era	3 x quarterfinalist 1 x R16 5 x R32
Best results Amateur Era	1 x finalist 4 x semifinalist 2 x quarterfinalist
W/L-record	63-27 (70% won)
Compared with other men	In the Open Era #240 of 2297 With overlapping career #34 of 534 From South Africa #4 of 71 Born in 1941 #2 of 19

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.

Cliff Drysdale – Grand Slam results (year, tournament, result, age)
Year	Tournament	Era	Result	Age
1980	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	39
1979	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	38
1978	US Open	Open Era	R128	37
1977	US Open	Open Era	R128	36
1977	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	36
1976	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	35
1975	US Open	Open Era	R64	34
1974	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	33
1973	US Open	Open Era	R32	32
1973	French Open	Open Era	R64	31
1972	US Open	Open Era	R16	31
1971	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	30
1971	Australian Open	Open Era	Q	29
1970	US Open	Open Era	R64	29
1970	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	29
1969	US Open	Open Era	R128	28
1969	Wimbledon	Open Era	Q	28
1969	French Open	Open Era	R128	28
1968	US Open	Open Era	Q	27
1968	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	27
1967	French Open	Amateur Era	Q	25
1966	Wimbledon	Amateur Era	S	25
1966	French Open	Amateur Era	S	24
1965	US Open	Amateur Era	F	24
1965	Wimbledon	Amateur Era	S	24
1965	French Open	Amateur Era	S	23
1964	French Open	Amateur Era	Q	23