Rex Hartwig

Rex Noel Hartwig ( born September 2, 1929 in Culcairn, New South Wales ) is an Australian former tennis player.

In 1953, he was with Mervyn Rose the double of the American Tennis Championships against the Americans Gardnar Mulloy and Bill Talbert in four sets 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 win, having already visited with the U.S. American Julie Sampson had won against Maureen Connolly and Hamilton Richardson in two sets 6:4 and 6:3, the mixed doubles of the Australian Tennis Championships.

1954 Hartwig finished second at the Australian Tennis Championships. He lost against his doubles partner Mervyn Rose in four sets 2:6, 6:0, 4:6 and 2:6. In the doubles competition Rex Hartwig and Mervyn Rose competed in the final against their compatriots Neale Fraser and Clive Wilder spin. You could win the match in three sets 6:3, 6:4 and 6:2. The mixed doubles competition this could Hartwig win in 1954. At his side played Thelma Coyne Long, with which he was able to defeat in the final of the Australian Beryl Penrose and John Bromwich in three sets 4:6, 6:1 and 6:2. The French tennis championships in the same year he was defeated by Jacqueline Patorni mixed doubles Maureen Connolly and Lew Hoad in two sets 6-4, 6-3. The doubles final of Wimbledon in 1954 against the American Vic Seixas and Tony Trabert won Hartwig and rose in four sets 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. The move into the final in singles, the American Tennis Championships in that year succeeded Hartwig, but the game against Vic Seixas, he lost in four sets 6-3, 2:6, 4:6 and 4:6.

1955 could Hartwig and rose her success at Wimbledon from the previous year with a win in three sets ( 7-5, 6-4 and 6-3 ) repeat against their countrymen Neale Fraser and Ken Rosewall.

• Tennis players (Australia)
• Born in 1929
• Man