Marty Riessen

This page provides a comprehensive overview of Marty Riessen’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 quarterfinal peaks, separated by eight years

Riessen’s best Grand Slam results were quarterfinals in 1963 US Open and 1965 Wimbledon during the Amateur Era, then again at the 1971 US Open in the Open Era. That gives him three quarterfinal finishes across two eras, with an eight-year gap between the first and last.

His strongest Open Era stretch came in 1971-1974

From 1971 through 1974, he reached at least the round of 16 in seven of eight recorded Slam appearances, including quarterfinals at the 1971 US Open and round-of-16 runs at Wimbledon and the French Open in 1971. The only miss in that span was the 1973 US Open, where he fell in the round of 64.

Wimbledon was his most productive major

Across nine Wimbledon appearances, Riessen produced one quarterfinal, two round-of-16 finishes, two round-of-32 finishes, two round-of-64 finishes, and two first-round exits. No other Slam shows that many deep runs in the supplied data.

Late-career decline was steep after age 36

At age 36 in 1977, he still reached the Australian Open round of 16, but his next four Slam results were all earlier exits: R64 at the 1977 US Open and Wimbledon, then R32 at both the 1978 US Open and Wimbledon. By age 38 in 1980, he was out in the first round at both majors entered.

His Slam record is built on consistency more than titles

Over 33 tournaments and 95 matches, Riessen compiled a 62-33 record, which is a 65% win rate. The results table shows many finishes in the R16-R64 range, indicating repeated progress without a title-level breakthrough in the supplied data.

Basics

Born	4 December 1941
Gender	Male
Nation	United States
Era	Amateur Era and Open Era
Grand Slam careerCareer	1963, 1965, 1968-1980

Grand Slam statistics

Tournaments	33
Best results Open Era	2 x quarterfinalist 9 x R16 5 x R32
Best results Amateur Era	2 x quarterfinalist
Total matches	95
W/L-record	62-33 (65% 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.

Marty Riessen – Grand Slam results (year, tournament, result, age)
Year	Tournament	Era	Result	Age
1980	US Open	Open Era	R128	38
1980	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	38
1979	US Open	Open Era	R64	37
1979	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	37
1978	US Open	Open Era	R32	36
1978	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	36
1977	Australian Open (Jan)	Open Era	R16	36
1977	US Open	Open Era	R64	35
1977	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	35
1976	US Open	Open Era	R32	34
1976	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	34
1975	US Open	Open Era	R128	33
1975	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	33
1974	US Open	Open Era	R16	32
1974	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	32
1974	French Open	Open Era	R16	32
1973	US Open	Open Era	R64	31
1972	US Open	Open Era	R32	30
1971	US Open	Open Era	Q	29
1971	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	29
1971	French Open	Open Era	R16	29
1971	Australian Open	Open Era	Q	29
1970	US Open	Open Era	R128	28
1970	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	28
1969	US Open	Open Era	R16	27
1969	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	27
1969	French Open	Open Era	R64	27
1969	Australian Open	Open Era	R16	27
1968	US Open	Open Era	R64	26
1968	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	26
1968	French Open	Open Era	R128	26
1965	Wimbledon	Amateur Era	Q	23
1963	US Open	Amateur Era	Q	21