Is this the last Australian Open champion to wear Volleys?
This is Mark Edmondson, the last Australian to win the Australian Open Men's Championship. This photo shows Mark dropping the trophy at Kooyong in 1976.
Tennis historian Bud Collins suggests that Mark jinxed any Australian from winning again - that was 37 years ago. Is the Volley International the missing element?
BTW the last Australian to win the Australian Open Women's Championship was Chris O'Neil in 1978 - also at Kooyong.
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