Background
Born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of a Victorian judge.
Born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of a Victorian judge.
He began playing tennis at age 11 and attended St Kevin's College, Melbourne (Class of 1950) where he became Captain of Tennis at the school.
Grand Slam record
Australian Championships
Singles finalist: 1957, 1959, 1960
Men's Doubles champion: 1957 (w/ Lew Hoad), 1958 (w/ Ashley Cooper), 1962 (w/ Roy Emerson)
Men's Doubles finalist: 1954 (w/ Clive Wilderspin), 1960 (w/ Roy Emerson)
Mixed Doubles champion: 1956 (w/ Beryl Penrose)
French championships
Men's Doubles champion: 1958 (w/ Ashley Cooper), 1960 and 1962 (w/ Roy Emerson)
Men's Doubles finalist: 1959 (w/ Roy Emerson)
Wimbledon
Singles champion: 1960
Singles finalist: 1958
Men's Doubles champion: 1959 and 1961 (w/ Roy Emerson)
Men's Doubles finalist: 1955, 1957, 1958, 1973 (w/ John Cooper)
Mixed Doubles champion: 1962 (w/ Margaret Osborne duPont)
Mixed Doubles finalist: 1957 (w/Althea Gibson), 1959 (w/ Maria Bueno)
U.S. Championships
Singles champion: 1959, 1960
Men's Doubles champion: 1957 (w/ Ashley Cooper), 1959 and 1960 (w/ Roy Emerson)
Mixed Doubles champion: 1958, 1959, 1960 (w/ Margaret Osborne duPont)
Fraser was ranked World Northern 1 amateur in 1959 and 1960 and was in the top ten every year between 1956 and 1962.
Fraser became Davis Cup Captain for the Australian team in 1970, holding the position for a record 24 years and piloting Australia to four wins in 1973, 1977, 1983 and 1986, and recording 55 wins from 75 ties played.
Fraser is one of the twenty men to win all four majors in doubles and in 1984 he was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Fraser was honoured with an MBE in 1974 and an AO in 1988. He was Chairman of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame from 1997 until 2005. In 2008 he received the International Tennis Federation’s highest honour, the Phillippe Chartier Award for outstanding achievements in tennis.
Fraser was also the Centenary Ambassador for Davis Cup, and was the first recipient of the ITF and International Hall of Fame’s Davis Cup Award of Excellence.
