*** Welcome to piglix ***

1973 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles

Men's Singles
1973 Wimbledon Championships
Champion Czechoslovakia Jan Kodeš
Runner-up Soviet Union Alex Metreveli
Final score 6–1, 9–8, 6–3
Details
Draw 128 (32Q)
Seeds 8
Events
Singles men women boys girls
Doubles men women mixed boys girls
Legends men women seniors
WC Doubles men women
← 1972 · Wimbledon Championships · 1974 →

Jan Kodeš defeated Alex Metreveli 6–1, 9–8, 6–3 in the final to win the Gentlemen's Singles title at the 1973 Wimbledon Championships. The final match included a tie-breaker played at 8–8 in the second set; the first ever Wimbledon singles final to include a tie-break. Eighty-one of the top players boycotted Wimbledon in 1973 (including reigning champion Stan Smith) to protest against the suspension of Nikola Pilić This resulted in a large number of qualifiers and lucky losers.

The seeded players are listed below. Jan Kodeš is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.

Before the withdrawal of players boycotting the event, the original seeding list was:


...
Wikipedia

...