Tennis in this Era

Stan Smith winning his 1972 Wimbledon Title, kissing the trophy with glee.

Roy Emerson won Wimbledon this year in a dominant doubles performance with Rod Laver. He was another Australian who would go down as one of the greatest players ever. 

This era was dominated by Australian players. Australia was known for producing outstanding tennis players, and so the biggest tournaments in the world tended to be won by Australian players, with some exceptions. Tennis was not professionally regulated at this period. They were having numerous problems with a globalizing world, and different tennis associations from around the world holding tournaments with different rules about who can enter. It was tough to tell who was definitely the best, because the best players around the world were not often in the same tournaments, except for Wimbledon. At this period, Wimbledon was an important barometer of who were the best players in the world. When