Vic Seixas
Result Year Championship Surface Opponent Score
Loss 1951 U.S. Championships Grass Frank Sedgman 6-4 , 6-1 , 6-1
Loss 1953 French Championships Clay Ken Rosewall 6-3 , 6-4 , 1-6 , 6-2
Win 1953 Wimbledon Grass Kurt Nielsen 9-7 , 6-3 , 6-4
Loss 1953 U.S. Championships Grass Tony Trabert 6-3 , 6-2 , 6-3
Win 1954 U.S. Championships Grass Rex Hartwig 3-6 , 6-2 , 6-4 , 6-4
Grand Slam finals -- Singles : 5 ( 2 titles , 3 runners-up )
Elias Victor Seixas Jr. (; pronounced SAY-shus; born August 30, 1923) is an American former tennis player. Thirteen times he was ranked in the Top Ten in the US between 1942 and 1956. In 1951 Seixas was ranked No. 4 in the world, two spots below Dick Savitt, while he was No. 1 in the U.S. ranking, one spot ahead of Savitt. In 1953, Seixas was ranked No. 3 in the world by Lance Tingay, and was also cited as being the World No. 1 in the Reading Eagle newspaper the same year. In his career he won 15 Major championships. He won both Wimbledon and the US Open in singles. He also won the Australian Open, French Open (twice), and US Open (twice) in doubles, and the French Open, Wimbledon (four times), and US Open (three times) in Mixed Doubles. Seixas was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic Hall of Fame, the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame, and the Southern Conference Hall of Fame.