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1946 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Yvon Petra defeated Geoff Brown in the final, 6–2, 6–4, 7–9, 5–7, 6–4 to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 1946 Wimbledon Championships. Bobby Riggs was the defending champion, but was ineligible to compete after turning professional. Seeds Dinny Pails ''(quarterfinals)'' Jack Kramer ''(fourth round)'' Geoff Brown ''(final)'' Pancho Segura ''(third round)'' Yvon Petra (champion) Dragutin Mitić ''(fourth round)'' Franjo Punčec Franjo Punčec (; 25 November 1913 – 5 January 1985) was a Yugoslav tennis player. He played for the Yugoslavian team at the International Lawn Tennis Challenge from 1933 to 1946. Early life and family Punčec started to play tennis at the ... ''(quarterfinals)'' Lennart Bergelin ''(quarterfinals)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Bottom half Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:1946 Wimbledon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvon Petra
Yvon Petra (; 8 March 1916 – 12 September 1984) was a French male tennis player. He was born in Chợ Lớn, Ho Chi Minh City, Cholon, French Indochina. Petra is best remembered as the last Frenchman to win the Wimbledon Championships men's singles title (in 1946), beating Geoff Brown (tennis), Geoff Brown in five sets in the final. In doubles, he won the French Championships twice, in 1938 with Bernard Destremau, defeating the best pair in the world Don Budge, Budge-Gene Mako, Mako, and in 1946 with Marcel Bernard. In 1938, he won the singles and doubles title at the French Covered Court Championships. He was a prisoner of war in World War II and after his release won three Tournoi de France (tennis), Tournoi de France singles titles from 1943 through 1945. He emigrated to the United States and worked as a tennis pro at the Saddle and Cycle Club in Chicago and a country club in Connecticut towards the end of his life. Petra was ranked world No. 4 for 1946 by A. Wallis Myers an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Moore (sportsman)
John Ambrose Moore (born 6 July 1911) was an English amateur footballer, referee and tennis player. Football career Moore played for Old Alleyneans, Stone St. Michael's and Stafford Rangers before joining Port Vale in February 1939. His only appearance was a 7–0 defeat at Manchester City on 18 May 1940 in a war league match. He departed at the end of the 1939–40 season as the club went into abeyance due to World War II. He later moved on to Michelin and also worked as a referee. Tennis career Moore was an accomplished tennis player and played at Wimbledon on seven occasions as an amateur (as almost all top players were at the time) between 1938 and 1950. Even the Australian champion, Rod Laver, showed Moore a cheque for £125 he received after he'd won the men's singles for the third time. With the prize money was a warning note saying it could not be spent on food or clothes, as this might jeopardise his amateur status. Moore's big moment came in 1948 when he reached the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Lister
Claude Frederick Owen Lister (13 October 1911 — 19 April 1988) was a British tennis player and coach. An Essex county player, Lister featured regularly at the Wimbledon Championships through the 1930s to 1950s. He twice reached the third round in singles, including in 1949 when he was the last Briton remaining in the draw. Lister, known for his strong serve, won the Surrey singles championships in Surbiton in 1947. In 1958 he began a long stint as non-playing captain of the South Africa Davis Cup team. He was captain of South Africa's only Davis Cup title winning side in 1974, secured after India refused to compete in the final due to the apartheid policy. This made South Africa the first Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ... champions outside the four gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Deloford
Murray Don Deloford (15 June 1916 – 12 February 1981) was a British tennis player. Deloford, a London native, had his best period on tour in the late 1930s, winning the Scottish Championships, Irish Championships and Kent Championships amongst other titles. At the 1939 Wimbledon Championships he made it through to the round of 16, beating Yugoslav Davis Cup player Dragutin Mitić en route. He was considered unfortunate not to have played Davis Cup tennis himself during this period. In World War II, Deloford served with Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ... and was involved in operations over Germany, Greece, North Africa and Italy. He was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross for gallantry in 1943. After the war he was married to Mavis Rosita Outr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adly El Shafei
Adli El-Shafei ( ar, عدلي الشافعي) (born 18 April 1919) was an Egyptian Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ... Team tennis player from 1946 to 1955. He played 32 matches for Egypt in Davis Cup. He is the father of Ismail El Shafei and grandfather of Adli El Shafei II. External links * 1919 births Possibly living people Egyptian male tennis players {{Egypt-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Paish
Geoffrey Lane Paish MBE (2 January 1922 – 3 February 2008) was a noted tennis player and administrator. Paish was born in Croydon, Surrey and educated at Mid-Whitgift School (now Trinity School) in Croydon. Career After World War II Paish worked at the Inland Revenue playing tennis only part-time. However he did manage to become a regular member of the GB Davis Cup team for which he played in 23 singles and 17 doubles matches. Between 1951 and 1955 Paish won five consecutive singles titles at the South of England Championships The South of England Championships, also known as the South of England Open Championships, was an outdoor tennis event held on grass courts at the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club in Eastbourne, United Kingdom from 1881 until 1972. History The ... tournament in Eastbourne. After Paish's playing days were over he rose to become one of the most influential administrators in post-World War II GB tennis. References External links Times obituary* ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Meredith
George Robert Broughton Meredith (15 July 1909 — 23 August 1994) was a British tennis player. Career Born in the Leicestershire village of Hugglescote, Meredith was the son of a local doctor. Meredith played cricket for the Dover College first eleven but couldn't pursue the sport further due to the hours he had to work in his part time retail job. Introduced to tennis by his elder sister, he became the Leicestershire junior champion as a 15-year old and was 16 when first picked for the county side, for which he later captained. Meredith won his first open title in 1933 at the Tally Ho! Tournament in Birmingham, by beating Davis Cup player Keats Lester in the final. He also made his Wimbledon singles main draw debut that year and was beaten in the first round by the tournament's top seed Ellsworth Vines. In 1946 he won the Nottinghamshire Championships defeating Peter Hare in the final. In 1947 he won the Northamptonshire Championships at Wellingborough against Jeffrey Michel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torsten Johansson
Torsten Johansson (11 April 1920 – 14 May 2004) was a Swedish tennis player who was active during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Tennis career Johansson set a record by shutting out two opponents at the 1947 Wimbledon, when he beat Brian Royds and Pierre Geeland De Merxem, 6–0, 6–0, 6–0 in the first and second rounds respectively. Johansson played for the Royal Tennis Club of Stockholm in the early 1940s and won more than 100 national titles for the club, a record that still stands. Johansson also won 32 Swedish National titles, being 7 titles in singles (4 indoor and 3 outdoor), 10 in doubles (3 indoor and 7 outdoor) as well as 15 mixed doubles titles (5 indoor and 10 outdoor). During the period 1946 to 1960 he played 72 Davis Cup matches for Sweden of which 51 were victorious. His last match was the 1960 Europe Zone semifinal victory against France. He and Lennart Bergelin, coach of Björn Borg, turned Sweden into a tennis power after World War II. Johansson won 14 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Baker (politician)
Robert Wilfred Baker (9 April 1917 – 3 July 1985) was an Australian lawyer, legal scholar and politician, who was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1969 as a Liberal member for Denison. He held his seat until 1980, when the results of the 1979 state election were voided and a by-election was held, in which Baker lost his seat to fellow Liberal Gabriel Haros. Early life and education Baker was born in Adelaide, South Australia in April 1917 to labour relations manager Cecil Roy Baker and author Alice Daisy Turner. The family moved to Tasmania in 1919, where Baker was educated at Moonah State School and Hobart High School, before gaining a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Tasmania in 1939 whilst working as an articled clerk. In December that year, Baker was selected as Tasmania's Rhodes Scholar for 1940, but postponed his studies to enlist in the Royal Australian Navy from 1940 to 1945 during World War II, obtaining the rank of lieutenant. After the war, Bake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Godsell
George Edward Godsell (26 April 1907 – 1 May 1953) was a British tennis player. Based in Gloucestershire, Godsell was active from the 1930s to early 1950s. Locally he won the singles title at Cheltenham four times and he was also a winner of the East of England Championships. He competed regularly at Wimbledon and reached the singles third round twice. Playing into his 40s, he reportedly appeared in 49 tournament finals across 1949 and 1950, believed to be the most of any male player during this time. Godsell died at the age of 46 from carbon monoxide poisoning Carbon monoxide poisoning typically occurs from breathing in carbon monoxide (CO) at excessive levels. Symptoms are often described as "flu-like" and commonly include headache, dizziness, weakness, vomiting, chest pain, and confusion. Large e ..., having taken his own life. He was found dead at his home in West London. A neighbour revealed during an inquest that Godsell had been depressed and was suffering from a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adli El Shafei
Adli El-Shafei ( ar, عدلي الشافعي) (born 18 April 1919) was an Egyptian Davis Cup Team tennis player from 1946 to 1955. He played 32 matches for Egypt in Davis Cup. He is the father of Ismail El Shafei Ismail El Shafei ( ar, إسماعيل الشافعي) (born 15 November 1947) is an Egyptian former professional tennis player and president of the Egyptian Tennis Federation. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Internatio ... and grandfather of Adli El Shafei II. External links * 1919 births Possibly living people Egyptian male tennis players {{Egypt-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josip Palada
Josip Palada ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Палада, ; 5 February 1912 – 4 May 1994) was a Yugoslavian tennis player. Early life and family Palada was born in Zagreb and started to play tennis at the age of fifteen on the courts of the Neurological Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb. He was hired as a ball boy by the doctors of the clinic. His talent was discovered by doctor of rheumatology Drago Čop, later a Davis Cup captain and president of the Yugoslav Tennis Association. Palada began practising with "Star" racquets on a daily basis. He was a self-taught player and trained by playing squash alone. He made his first international appearance at a Budapest-Zagreb inter-club match. He began working as a state official in the meantime. Tennis career Palada debuted in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Davis Cup team in 1933. The team's first big tour was a visit to India in the winter of 1934. Palada won tournaments in Bombay, Calcutta Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |