Mark Edmondson

Mark Edmondson is a retired Australian professional tennis player, born in Gosford, New South Wales, on 28 June 1954. He entered the 1976 Australian Open ranked 212th in the world, beat the top seed Ken Rosewall in the semifinals and then beat the defending champion John Newcombe in four sets in a final played in a severe windstorm that sent the players off the court for half an hour. He remains the lowest-ranked winner of a Grand Slam tournament since the ATP rankings began in 1973 and is the last Australian to win the men's singles at the Australian Open. His best later singles results were reaching the semifinals of the 1981 Australian Open and of Wimbledon in 1982, where he beat Vitas Gerulaitis and lost to Jimmy Connors, a run that lifted him to a career-high ranking of 15. As a doubles player he won 34 titles, including five at Grand Slam events.