Bill Bowrey

William Bowrey, known as Bill, is a former Australian tennis player, born in Sydney on 25 December 1943 and ranked world number eight in 1967. He is best remembered as the last amateur to win the Australian Championships, which he took in 1968, the final year before the tournament opened itself to professional players in 1969 and became the Australian Open of the Open Era. He was born in Sydney and was among the leading Australian players of the mid 1960s, a world top ten singles player in 1967, and his 1968 win made him a men's singles champion of a Grand Slam event at the end of the amateur era.