John James

This page provides a comprehensive overview of John James’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	7 March 1951
Gender	Male
Nation	Australia
Era	Amateur Era and Open Era
Grand Slam careerCareer	1968, 1972-1981
Strengths	Serve Experience Net play
Less strong	Baseline consistency Movement

Grand Slam statistics

Tournaments	28
Best results Open Era	6 x R32 10 x R64 11 x R128
Best results Amateur Era	1 x R64
W/L-record	23-28 (45% won)
Compared with other men	In the Open Era #684 of 2297 With overlapping career #138 of 539 From Australia #71 of 231 Born in 1951 #13 of 37

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.

John James – Grand Slam results (year, tournament, result, age)
Year	Tournament	Era	Result	Age
1981	US Open	Open Era	R64	30
1980	Australian Open	Open Era	R64	29
1980	US Open	Open Era	R128	29
1980	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	29
1980	French Open	Open Era	R128	29
1979	Australian Open	Open Era	R32	28
1979	US Open	Open Era	R64	28
1979	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	28
1979	French Open	Open Era	R64	28
1978	Australian Open	Open Era	R32	27
1978	US Open	Open Era	R64	27
1978	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	27
1978	French Open	Open Era	R128	27
1977	Australian Open (Jan)	Open Era	R64	26
1977	US Open	Open Era	R64	26
1977	Australian Open (Dec)	Open Era	R32	25
1976	US Open	Open Era	R128	25
1976	Australian Open	Open Era	R32	24
1975	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	24
1975	French Open	Open Era	R128	24
1975	Australian Open	Open Era	R32	23
1974	US Open	Open Era	R128	23
1974	Australian Open	Open Era	R64	22
1973	US Open	Open Era	R128	22
1973	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	22
1973	Australian Open	Open Era	R64	21
1972	Australian Open	Open Era	R32	20
1968	Australian Open	Amateur Era	R64	16