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1931 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Sidney Wood was declared winner of the title by default over Frank Shields in capturing the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 1931 Wimbledon Championships. Shields withdrew due to a knee injury sustained during his semifinal match against Jean Borotra. This made Wood the only player in the title's history to win without having to compete in the final. Bill Tilden was the defending champion, but did not compete. Seeds Jean Borotra ''(semifinals)'' Henri Cochet ''(first round)'' Frank Shields ''(final)'' Christian Boussus ''(fourth round)'' Fred Perry ''(semifinals)'' Bunny Austin ''(quarterfinals)'' Sidney Wood Sidney Burr Wood Jr. (November 1, 1911 – January 10, 2009) was an American tennis player who won the 1931 Wimbledon singles title. Wood was ranked in the world's Top 10 five times between 1931 and 1938, and was ranked World No. 6 in 1931 and ... (champion) Jiro Sato ''(quarterfinals)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Wood
Sidney Burr Wood Jr. (November 1, 1911 – January 10, 2009) was an American tennis player who won the 1931 Wimbledon singles title. Wood was ranked in the world's Top 10 five times between 1931 and 1938, and was ranked World No. 6 in 1931 and 1934 and No. 5 in 1938 by A. Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph. Career Wood was born in Black Rock, Connecticut. He won the Arizona State Men's Tournament on his 14th birthday, which qualified him for the French Championship and earned him a spot at Wimbledon.Tennis Master Sydney Wood Dies Southampton Press, January 15, 2009. He attended in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, where he created the tradition of "J-ball. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Hughes (tennis)
George Patrick Hughes (21 December 1902 – 8 May 1997) was an English tennis player. Hughes and Fred Perry won the doubles at the French Open, French Championships in 1933 and at the Australian Open, Australian Championships in 1934. Hughes later teamed up with Raymond Tuckey. They won the doubles in The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon in 1936. Hughes reached the semi finals at French Open, Roland Garros in 1931, where he beat Vernon Kirby and George Lott before losing to Christian Boussus. Between 1929 and 1936 Hughes was a member of the British Davis Cup team. Hughes had been the only British man to reach the singles final at the Rome Masters, Italian championships, capturing the title in 1931 and runner-up the following year, until Andy Murray won the tournament in 2016. Hughes captured the doubles title in both those years too, when the tournament, in its infancy, was played in Milan. He was the editor of the ''Dunlop Lawn Tennis Annual and Almanack'' from the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watson Washburn
Watson McLean Washburn (June 13, 1894 – December 2, 1973) was an American tennis player who was in the top 10 in the US seven times between 1914 and 1922. He was also one of the founders of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, to which he was inducted in 1965. He also competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Biography He was born in Manhattan on June 13, 1894. He was primarily a doubles player and teamed with Richard Norris Williams to take the Davis Cup in 1921. Also with Williams, he reached two US Championship finals and one at Wimbledon. He won the US Intercollegiate Doubles Championship in 1913 and the Indoor Doubles Championship in 1915. In July 1915, Washburn and Williams won the doubles title at the Eastern Tennis Championship in Brookline defeating Irving C. Wright and Wallace F. Johnson in four sets. In 1917, Washburn joined the American Expeditionary Forces and served during World War I in France as a captain in the artillery. In 1921, Washburn defeated Richa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Lysaght
John Frederick Gerald Lysaght (27 September 1906 – 7 April 1954) was a British tennis player. Lysaght, an Oxford Blue, came from a wealthy Somerset family. His father Gerald was an industrialist and a significant donor to Ernest Shackleton, accompanying the explorer to Cape Verde as a helmsman on the 1921 Quest Expedition. The family occupied Chapel Cleeve Manor in Somerset. Active on tour in the 1930s, Lysaght was known for his considerable height and twice reached the singles third round of the Wimbledon Championships The Wimbledon Championships, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely regarded as the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, All England Club in .... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lysaght, Jack 1906 births 1954 deaths British male tennis players English male tennis players Tennis players from Somerset Alumni of the University of Oxford< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athar-Ali Fyzee
Athar-Ali Fyzee (28 August 1883 – 3 November 1963) was an Indian international tennis and table tennis player. He competed in the men's singles tennis tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics. In a tennis career lasting 18 seasons from 1909 to 1934, he reached 21 finals and won 14 singles titles. Career Table tennis Athar-Ali Fyzee took part in the first 1926 World Table Tennis Championships in London. Here he won the bronze medal with the Indian men's team which included his brother Hassan Ali Fyzee. The same year he was elected the first president of the Table Tennis Federation of India. Tennis In a career lasting 18 seasons from 1909 to 1934, he reached 21 finals and won 14 singles titles. In major grand slam tournaments his best result in the singles events was reaching the third round in the 1925 French Championships where he lost to René Lacoste and the 1926 Wimbledon Championships. He participated in 15 editions of the Wimbledon Championships between 1910 and 1933 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Lewis-Barclay
Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Samuel Lewis Barclay (7 November 1892 – 20 April 1956) was an Australian-born army officer and sportsman who played first-class cricket and was a quarter-finalist at the 1925 Wimbledon Championships. Military career Having served as a captain in the 40th Battalion (Australia) in the First World War, he transferred to the Indian Army in 1917 and to the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals in 1927. He retired as a lieutenant-colonel in 1946. Cricket On 13 November 1926, Lewis-Barclay made his first-class debut, for Southern Punjab, against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) from England. The match was played in Lahore and Lewis-Barclay opened the bowling for Southern Punjab, claiming figures of 3-75, which included the wicket of the MCC captain Arthur Gilligan. After amassing 285 runs in the first innings, the MCC dismissed Southern Punjab for just 89 and enforced the follow-on. Southern Punjab were eight wickets down and still trailing the MCC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Raymond (tennis)
Louis Bosman Raymond (28 June 1895 – 30 January 1962) was a male tennis player from South Africa. At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, he defeated Ichiya Kumagai in the finals to win the gold medal. He won the South African Championships six times; four consecutive titles from 1921 through 1924 as well as victories in 1930 and 1931. In 1924 he made it to the semifinal of the singles event at the Wimbledon Championships, losing to eventual champion Jean Borotra in straight sets. In 1927 he reached the quarterfinal of the French Championship in which he was defeated by Bill Tilden William Tatem Tilden II (February 10, 1893 – June 5, 1953), nicknamed "Big Bill", was an American tennis player. Tilden was the world No. 1 amateur for six consecutive years, from 1920 to 1925, and was ranked as the world No. 1 professional b .... Between 1919 and 1931, Raymond played in ten ties for the South African Davis Cup team and has a record of ten wins and eleven loss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cam Malfroy
Camille Enright Malfroy, (21 January 1909 – 8 May 1966)Cam Malfroy Tennis Archives was a prominent New Zealand player of the 1930s and 1940s, competing in numerous grand slam championships of the era, and a fighter pilot and of the . Early and personal life Camille Enright Malfroy was born in |
Stan Harris
Stanley Wakefield Harris CBE (13 December 1894 – 3 October 1973) was an early twentieth century all-round sportsman regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders to have played for the British and Irish Lions.Cotton, p82 As a rugby union international, he represented the England in 1920, and the British Lions in 1924. He also turned down a place in the Great Britain Olympic squad in 1920, became a South African boxing champion and represented England in polo, all in between serving in both the First and Second World Wars.Richard Bath, ''The British & Irish Lions Miscellany'', p. 30, 2008, (Vision Sports Publishing:London) Early life Stan Harris was born on 13 December 1894 in Somerset East. He attended Bedford School where he excelled at rugby union. Sporting career Stanley Harris has been described as a ''" Boy’s Own"'' hero for his sporting prowess. After his service in World War I, in which he was wounded, he spent some time convalescing, but his boredom at this predica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Holmes
Major General Sir Noel Galway Holmes KBE CB MC (25 December 1891 – 24 December 1982) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War and Davis Cup tennis player for Ireland. Biography Born in Galway, Ireland, on 25 December 1891, Noel Holmes attended and was educated at Bedford School. He joined the Royal Irish Regiment in 1912 and served in India between 1912 and 1914. During the First World War he served in France. He served in Upper Silesia between 1921 and 1922. In 1922 he joined the East Yorkshire Regiment and, after attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1926 to 1927, served in India between 1933 and 1937. During the Second World War he was Director of Movements at the War Office, between 1939 and 1943. He attended the conferences of allied war leaders in Casablanca, Washington, D.C., Quebec City, Cairo, Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam. He was Deputy Quartermaster General at the War Office between 1943 and 1946 and, briefly, General Officer Commanding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ody Koopman
Henri Lodewijk George "Ody" Koopman (19 July 1902 – 20 May 1949)Ody Koopman Tennis Archives.com, retrieved 23 October 2012. was a Dutch player. Career Koopman was four times Dutch champion. In 1930 he won the title in the mixed doubles with Mence Canters. In 1931, 1932 (both with Joop Knottenbelt and in 1933 (with ) he won the gentlemen's double. He competed ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Cazalet
Colonel Victor Alexander Cazalet, MC (27 December 1896 – 4 July 1943) was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for nineteen years. He came from a prominent, wealthy English family. In his political career, he was a noted authority on international affairs and was a veteran of World War I. He became the liaison officer with Polish General Sikorski after the outbreak of World War II. He promoted strong military ties with the United States before and during the war and was an outspoken advocate for creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Cazalet was also an amateur athlete and squash champion in Great Britain for many years. He became godfather to actress Elizabeth Taylor after developing a friendship with her family. Travelling back to London from Gibraltar, he was killed in the 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash at age 46 along with General Sikorski and 15 others. Early life and education Victor Cazalet was born in London, at 4 Whitehall Gardens, on 12 December 1896, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
