John Newcombe

This page provides a comprehensive overview of John Newcombe’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	23 May 1944
Gender	Male
Nation	Australia
Era	Amateur Era and Open Era
Grand Slam careerCareer	1962-1978
Strengths	Serve Net play Experience
Less strong	Baseline consistency Movement

Grand Slam statistics

Tournaments	36
Best results Open Era	5 x champion 2 x finalist 3 x semifinalist
Best results Amateur Era	2 x champion 1 x finalist 3 x semifinalist
Total matches	187
W/L-record	158-29 (84% won)
Compared with other men	In the Open Era #14 of 2307 With overlapping career #1 of 540 From Australia #1 of 231 Born in 1944 #1 of 17

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 Newcombe – Grand Slam results (year, tournament, result, age)
Year	Tournament	Era	Result	Age
1978	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	34
1977	Australian Open (Dec)	Open Era	Q	32
1976	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	32
1976	French Open	Open Era	R128	32
1976	Australian Open	Open Era	F	31
1975	Australian Open	Open Era	W	30
1974	US Open	Open Era	S	30
1974	Wimbledon	Open Era	Q	30
1974	Australian Open	Open Era	Q	29
1973	US Open	Open Era	W	29
1973	French Open	Open Era	R128	28^?
1973	Australian Open	Open Era	W	28
1972	US Open	Open Era	R32	28
1972	Australian Open	Open Era	Q	27
1971	US Open	Open Era	R128	27
1971	Wimbledon	Open Era	W	27
1971	Australian Open	Open Era	R16	26
1970	US Open	Open Era	S	26
1970	Wimbledon	Open Era	W	26
1970	Australian Open	Open Era	Q	25
1969	US Open	Open Era	S	25
1969	Wimbledon	Open Era	F	25
1969	French Open	Open Era	Q	25
1969	Australian Open	Open Era	Q	24
1968	US Open	Open Era	Q	24
1968	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	24
1967	US Open	Amateur Era	W	23
1967	Wimbledon	Amateur Era	W	23
1967	Australian Open	Amateur Era	S	22
1966	US Open	Amateur Era	F	22
1966	Australian Open	Amateur Era	S	21
1965	French Open	Amateur Era	Q	20
1965	Australian Open	Amateur Era	S	20
1964	Australian Open	Amateur Era	Q	19
1963	Australian Open	Amateur Era	Q	18
1962	Australian Open	Amateur Era	Q	17

John Newcombe

Basics

Grand Slam statistics

Grand Slam results