She retired in 1983. But Goolagong Cawley wasn’t done at the 1976 Australian Open. She shared the women’s doubles title with Helen Gourlay, who defeated Lesley Bowrey and Renata Tomanova.

Although John Marks, Kim Warwick, Cash (twice) and Lleyton Hewitt have all reached the Australian Open final since 1976, none has managed to emulate his unlikely success.

The magnitude of the upset and the back story involved in Mark Edmondson's 6-7, 6-3, 7-6, 6-1 victory over John Newcombe in the 1976 Australian Open finals entraps it firmly in the minds of long ...

THE Australian Open tennis has a proud history of monumental upsets, but none was greater than Australian Mark Edmondson’s victory in the men’s final in 1976, writes Grantlee Kieza Grantlee Keiza ...

By the time the 1976 Australian Open opened (the tournament started Dec. 26, 1975), the tournament had fallen out of favor, with few of the sport's biggest stars making the long trip Down Under ...

YOU can’t talk about the 1976 Australian Open — the last time a local hope won the men’s singles — without mentioning who was missing from Melbourne that year.

This was published 19 years ago Mark Edmondson's 1976 Open odyssey Paul Daffey January 28, 2006 — 11.00am Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ...