Fred Stolle
This page provides a comprehensive overview of Fred Stolle’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
Peak Amateur-Era run: two titles and six runner-up finishes
In the Amateur Era, Stolle’s best results include 2 championships, 6 finals, and 3 semifinals. That concentration of deep runs came before the Open Era entries begin in 1968.
1964-1966 was his most dominant Grand Slam stretch
Across those three seasons he reached at least the final in every listed Slam appearance: four finals in 1964, three more deep runs in 1965, and a title plus a semifinal and quarterfinal in 1966. That is the clearest sustained peak in the data.
Open Era results dropped sharply after 1968
His Open Era best results are only four quarterfinals, four round-of-16 finishes, and one round-of-32 finish. Compared with the Amateur Era totals, the later phase shows no finals and no titles in the supplied rows.
Longevity across four decades of Grand Slam play
His Grand Slam career spans 1961-1966, 1968-1972, 1975, and 1977-1978, with 28 tournaments and 132 matches overall. The last listed appearance came at Wimbledon in 1978 at age 39.
Australian Open was his earliest and latest recurring stage
The Australian Open appears in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1971, and 1975. It includes both an early semifinal at age 22 and later round-of-16 and quarterfinal results in the Open Era.
Basics
| Born | 8 October 1938 |
| Gender | Male |
| Nation | Australia |
| Era | Amateur Era and Open Era |
| Grand Slam careerCareer | 1961-1966, 1968-1972, 1975, 1977-1978 |
Grand Slam statistics
| Tournaments | 28 |
| Best results Open Era | 4 x quarterfinalist 4 x R16 1 x R32 |
| Best results Amateur Era | 2 x champion 6 x finalist 3 x semifinalist |
| Total matches | 132 |
| W/L-record | 106-26 (80% won) |
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.
| Year | Tournament | Era | Result | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Wimbledon | Open Era | R128 | 39 |
| 1977 | US Open | Open Era | R64 | 38 |
| 1975 | US Open | Open Era | R128 | 36 |
| 1972 | US Open | Open Era | Q | 33 |
| 1971 | Wimbledon | Open Era | R16 | 32 |
| 1971 | Australian Open | Open Era | R16 | 32 |
| 1970 | US Open | Open Era | R32 | 31 |
| 1970 | Wimbledon | Open Era | R128 | 31 |
| 1969 | US Open | Open Era | Q | 30 |
| 1969 | Wimbledon | Open Era | R16 | 30 |
| 1969 | French Open | Open Era | Q | 30 |
| 1969 | Australian Open | Open Era | Q | 30 |
| 1968 | US Open | Open Era | R64 | 29 |
| 1968 | Wimbledon | Open Era | R16 | 29 |
| 1968 | French Open | Open Era | R64 | 29 |
| 1966 | US Open | Amateur Era | W | 27 |
| 1966 | French Open | Amateur Era | Q | 27 |
| 1966 | Australian Open | Amateur Era | S | 27 |
| 1965 | Wimbledon | Amateur Era | F | 26 |
| 1965 | French Open | Amateur Era | W | 26 |
| 1965 | Australian Open | Amateur Era | F | 26 |
| 1964 | US Open | Amateur Era | F | 25 |
| 1964 | Wimbledon | Amateur Era | F | 25 |
| 1964 | Australian Open | Amateur Era | F | 25 |
| 1963 | Wimbledon | Amateur Era | F | 24 |
| 1963 | Australian Open | Amateur Era | S | 24 |
| 1962 | Australian Open | Amateur Era | Q | 23 |
| 1961 | Australian Open | Amateur Era | S | 22 |
Open Era Grand Slam Tennis