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1949 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
John Bromwich and Frank Sedgman were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Budge Patty and Eric Sturgess. Pancho Gonzales and Frank Parker defeated Gardnar Mulloy and Ted Schroeder in the final, 6–4, 6–4, 6–2 to win the gentlemen's doubles tennis title at the 1949 Wimbledon Championship.100 Years of Wimbledon by Lance Tingay, Guinness Superlatives Ltd. 1977 Seeds Gardnar Mulloy / Ted Schroeder ''(final)'' John Bromwich / Frank Sedgman ''(quarterfinals)'' Pancho Gonzales / Frank Parker (champions) Jaroslav Drobný / Bob Falkenburg Robert Falkenburg (January 29, 1926 – January 6, 2022) was an American amateur tennis player and entrepreneur. He is best known for winning the Men's Singles at the 1948 Wimbledon Championships and for introducing soft ice cream and American f ... ''(quarterfinals)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:1949 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pancho Gonzales
Ricardo Alonso "Pancho" González (May 9, 1928 – July 3, 1995), known sometimes as Richard Gonzales, was an American tennis player. He won 15 major singles titles, including two U.S. National Singles Championships in 1948 and 1949, and 13 Professional Grand Slam titles. He also won three Tournament of Champions professional events in 1957, 1958, and 1959. He was ranked world amateur No. 1 in 1948 by Ned Potter and in 1949 by Potter and John Olliff. Gonzales was a prominent professional champion in the 1950s and 1960s, winning world professional championship tours between 1954 and 1961; he was ranked world No. 1 professional in some rankings between 1952 and 1961. Gonzales was a determined competitor with a fierce temper. He was often at odds with officials and promoters. However, he was a fan favorite who drew many spectators. Career Amateur Gonzales was given a 51-cent racquet by his mother when he was 12 years old. He received tennis analysis from his friend, Chuck Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Redl
Hans Redl (January 19, 1914 – May 26, 1976) was an Austrian tennis player and administrator who played at the highest level despite the loss of his left arm in World War II. Biography Born in Vienna on January 19, 1914, he rose to become one of Austria's best tennis players in the late 1930s. He made his debut in the Austrian Davis Cup team in 1937, scoring his country's only point in their 3–1 defeat by Germany. After the annexation of Austria by the German Reich in 1938, Redl was conscripted into the German army and was sent to the Eastern Front. During the Siege of Stalingrad he was badly wounded and had his left arm amputated at the shoulder. After rehabilitation from his injury, he developed an adjusted serving technique to allow him to continue playing; instead of throwing the ball up with his free hand, he would rest the ball on the racquet face, flipping it in the air before serving as normal. Although this was against the rules, he was given special dispensat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragutin Mitić
Dragutin Mitić ( sh-Cyrl, Драгутин Митић, ; 16 September 1917 – 27 August 1986) was a tennis player from Yugoslavia. He defected to the West in 1952 and afterwards lived in the United States. Early life and family Dragutin Mitić was born in Zagreb on 16 September 1917. He was nicknamed ''Dragec''. His first tennis performance was an instant success. In 1932 he played at the national junior championships and won. At eighteen, he competed in Bled and upset Czechoslovakian Josef Caska with a 13:11, 6:1 score, and brought home the mixed doubles with Hella Kovač. He made his Davis Cup debut in 1936. That same year he traveled to South Africa and, although he didn't return with any major result, gained international experience. Tennis career Mitić played tennis for Zagreb clubs ''Akademski teniski klub'' ATK, between 1935 and 1940, ''Slavija'' in 1946, ''Dinamo'' in 1947–48, ''Naprijed'' in 1949, and ZTK in 1951. He played for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Davis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Worthington (tennis)
George Allan Worthington (10 October 1928 – 8 December 1964) was an Australian male tennis player who was active in the 1940s and 1950s. Career Worthington won the mixed doubles title at the Australian Championships in 1951, 1952 and 1953 together with Thelma Coyne Long. He was twice runner-up with compatriot Frank Sedgman in Grand Slam men's doubles championship. In 1947 they lost the final of the Australian Championship against Adrian Quist and John Bromwich in straight sets and in 1949 in the U.S. National Championship they met the same fate against fellow Australians John Bromwich and Bill Sidwell. He won a number of career singles titles including the British Pro Championships six times consecutively from 1957 to 1962, the Slazenger Pro Championships two times, (1957, 1962), the Sydney Metropolitan Championships three times, (1950, 1953-54), and the Surrey Championships one time, (1953), the East of England Championships one time, (1949) and the New Zealand Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eustace Fannin
Evelyn Eustace Fannin (28 June 1915 – 25 November 1997) was a South African tennis player. Fannin was born in Ixopo in June 1915 and educated at Hilton College. In 1947, he won the doubles title at the French Championships with compatriot Eric Sturgess defeating American Tom Brown and Australian Bill Sidwell in four sets. Two years later, in 1949, they again reached the doubles final but this time lost to the American team of Pancho Gonzales and Frank Parker in four sets. In 1947, he lost the final of the Netherlands Championships to Frenchman Henri Cochet. Between 1937 and 1949, Fannin played seven times for the South African 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 and compiled a record of nine wins and seven losses. He died in Durban in Novemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakari Salo
Sakari Salo (21 December 1919 – 13 December 2011) was a tennis and bandy player from Finland. Tennis career Salo represented Finland from 1950 to 1963 in the Davis Cup competition. He made his Davis Cup debut during the 1950 Europe Zone first round tie against Belgium. During his Davis Cup career, Salo played in twenty-nine Davis Cup singles rubbers, winning thirteen, and in seventeen doubles rubbers, with four victories. Salo participated at the 1952 Wimbledon Championships playing in the singles, doubles and mixed doubles. In the mixed doubles, he partnered with his wife Thelma Salo, and reached the third round. Bandy career Salo represented Finland at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo when Bandy was held as a demonstration sport. Salo won a bronze medal as a member of the Finnish team. See also * List of Finland Davis Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Finland Davis Cup team The Finland men's national tennis team repre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentti Forsman
Pentti Gunnar Forsman (1 August 1917 – 24 January 2006) was a tennis player from Finland. Tennis career Forsman represented Finland from 1950 to 1953 in the Davis Cup competition. He made his Davis Cup debut during the 1950 Europe Zone first round tie against Belgium. During his Davis Cup career, Forsman played in ten Davis Cup singles rubbers and in five doubles rubbers, with one victory in each. Forsman participated at the 1949 Wimbledon Championships playing in the singles and doubles, teaming up with Sakari Salo in the doubles. See also *List of Finland Davis Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Finland Davis Cup team The Finland men's national tennis team represents Finland in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Suomen Tennisliitto. Finland currently compete i ... References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Forsman, Pentti 1917 births 2006 deaths Finnish male tennis players Sportspeople fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syd Levy
Sydney Levy (17 October 1922 – 22 November 2015) was a South African tennis player. He competed at Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon, the French Championships, the US Open (tennis), U.S. Open, and Davis Cup, and won a silver medal at the Maccabiah Games in Israel. Biography Levy attended the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and won the university singles title in tennis in 1942. Levy competed in singles at the 1949 French Championships in Paris. In Round 1 Levy defeated Belgian Pierre Geelhand de Merxem in straight sets, and in Round 2 he lost to Marcel Bernard of France in four sets. Levy competed in Men Singles Tennis at the 1949 Wimbledon Championships in England. In Round 1 he defeated Esmail Sohikish of Iran, in Round 2 he defeated Paul Rémy of France in five sets, and in Round 3 he was beaten by Vladimír Černík of Czechoslovakia. He also played in 1949 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles, Gentlemen's Doubles in the competition, with Nigel Cockb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Cockburn
Nigel M. Cockburn was a South African tennis player of Scottish descent. A native of Natal, Cockburn was active on tour in the 1940s and 1950s. While touring the British Isles in 1949 he made the fourth round at Wimbledon and won both the Irish Championships and Scottish Championships. He had further success in England in 1951 when he claimed the All England Plate. In 1952 he beat 15th-seed Enrique Morea at the French Championships, before losing his third round match in five sets to Kurt Nielsen Kurt Nielsen (19 November 1930 – 11 June 2011) was a Danish tennis player. He was born in Copenhagen, and was the first Danish tennis player ever to have played in a men's singles final in a Grand Slam tournament. Nielsen reached the single .... Cockburn died of an undisclosed illness in 1957 at the age of 34. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cockburn, Nigel Year of birth missing 1957 deaths South African male tennis players Sportspeople from KwaZulu-Natal Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Destremau
Bernard Destremau (; 11 February 1917 – 6 June 2002) was a French tennis player, tank officer, diplomat and politician. Biography Born in Paris into a military family, the third son of a WW I cavalry general, his success in accommodating competitive tennis with academic, military, diplomatic and political pursuits is distinctive. A precocious French junior tennis champion in the mid-1930s, Destremau reached the singles semifinals at Roland Garros in 1937 (losing to winner Henner Henkel) and the quarterfinals in 1936 and 1938 before winning the 1938 French Championships doubles (with Yvon Petra, beating Don Budge-Gene Mako). During those years he graduated from HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales). Destremau also won the 1941 and the 1942 Tournoi de France which in war-time was not counted as a grand slam event and later, won several national titles including the 1951 and 1953 French National singles championships. He remained an amateur, devoted his tennis mostly to the Davis Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naresh Kumar (tennis Player)
Naresh Kumar ( hi, नरेश कुमार; pa, ਨਰੇਸ਼ ਕੁਮਾਰ, نریش کُمار) (22 December 1928 – 14 September 2022) was an Indian tennis player. He was the captain of the India Davis Cup team from 1989 to 1993. Early life Kumar was born in Lahore, Punjab, British India on 22 December 1928. Playing career Kumar played his first tournament at the 1949 Indian International Championships and reached the semi-finals. In the spring of 1949, he reached the final of the Northern Championships in England before losing to Tony Mottram. Later that year, he lost to George Worthington in the final of the East of England Championships. He began playing in the India Davis Cup team in 1952 and represented India for the ensuing eight years. Kumar advanced to the final of the 1950 Bombay tournament before losing to Narendra Nath in four sets. He was the finalist in the 1951 Ceylon Championships at Nuwara Eliya the following year, losing to Iftikhar Ahmed Kha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Tinling
Cuthbert Collingwood "Ted" Tinling (23 June 1910 – 23 May 1990), sometimes known as Teddy Tinling, was a fashion designer, spy and author. He was a firm fixture on the professional tennis tour for over 60 years and is considered the foremost designer of tennis dresses of the 20th century. Early life Tinling was born in Eastbourne, on the south coast of England, the son of James Alexander Tinling, a chartered accountant. In 1923, suffering from bronchial asthma, his parents sent him to the French Riviera on doctor's orders. It was there he began playing tennis, particularly at the Nice Tennis Club where Suzanne Lenglen practiced. Despite Tinling's youth, Lenglen's father asked him if he would umpire one of her upcoming matches. He became her personal umpire for two years in between a short career as a player himself. This friendship with Lenglen led him to his first Wimbledon Championships in 1927, where he became player liaison until 1949. During the Second World War, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
