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1951 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
In the 1951 Wimbledon Championships – Gentlemen's Singles tennis competition, Dick Savitt defeated Ken McGregor in the final, 6–4, 6–4, 6–4 to win the title. He was the second ever American to win the Wimbledon and Australian tournaments in the same year. Number 4 seed Budge Patty was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to another American, the unseeded 17-year-old Ham Richardson. Progress of the competition After defeating Patty, Richardson went out in the fourth round, losing to another unseeded player, the Brazilian Armando Vieira; this was Vieira's most successful Wimbledon, but he lost in the quarterfinals to South Africa's Eric Sturgess, a former world number one, in straight sets. McGregor reached the final by defeating Sturgess in the semifinals. Seeds Frank Sedgman ''(quarterfinals)'' Jaroslav Drobný ''(third round)'' Art Larsen ''(quarterfinals)'' Budge Patty ''(second round)'' Herbie Flam ''(semifinals)'' Dick Savitt (champion) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Savitt
Richard Savitt (March 4, 1927 – January 6, 2023) was an American tennis player. In 1951, at the age of 24, he won both the Australian and Wimbledon men's singles championships. Savitt was mostly ranked world No. 2 the same year behind fellow amateur Frank Sedgman, though was declared world No. 1 by ''The New York Times'' following his Wimbledon victory. He retired the following year. Savitt is one of four American men who have won both the Australian and British Championships in one year, following Don Budge (1938) and preceding Jimmy Connors (1974) and Pete Sampras (1994 and 1997). He won gold medals in both singles and men's doubles at the 1961 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Savitt is enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Men's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame, the USTA Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Early life Savitt was born in Bayonne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Horn (tennis)
John Alfred Thomas Horn (6 November 1931 – 26 August 2001) was a British tennis player who won the Wimbledon Boys' singles Championship in 1950. Tennis career Horn reached the Wimbledon Boys' Singles final for two years running. In the 1949 final he lost to Staffan Stockenberg and in 1950 he beat the Egyptian player, Kamel Moubarek in the final. Horn competed on the amateur circuit during the 1950s and won 23 titles. His first title was as an eighteen-year-old, at the Derbyshire championships in Buxton, when he beat George Godsell in the final. His last amateur title was in 1956 at the North of England Hardcourts, beating Michael Hann in the final. Horn turned professional in the late 1950s and in 1967 he won the British Pro Championships held at Eastbourne with a victory over Charles Applewhaite. Horn's best result at a Grand Slam events was reaching the third round at the 1952 Wimbledon Championships, before losing to Budge Patty. After retiring as a player, Horn work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Huber (tennis)
Alfred "Freddie" Huber (15 May 1930 – 25 May 1972) was an Austrian tennis and ice hockey player. He began his tennis career in 1946. He won the British Covered Court Championships in 1956. He competed at Wimbledon in 1949–57, but never advanced through the third round. He competed in the hockey tournament at the 1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz .... References External links * 1930 births 1972 deaths Austrian ice hockey goaltenders Austrian male tennis players Ice hockey players at the 1948 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Austria Sportspeople from Klagenfurt Tennis players from Vienna {{Austria-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Chatrier
Philippe Chatrier (; 2 February 1928 – 22 June 2000) was a French tennis player. After his playing career ended, he became a journalist, and was then involved in sports administration. He was president of the French Tennis Federation for 20 years, from 1973 to 1993, and president of the International Tennis Federation for 14 years, from 1977 to 1991. Life and career Chatrier was born in Créteil in France. He was the French junior tennis champion in 1945. After retiring, he became a journalist. He founded the magazine ''Tennis de France'' in 1953, and also sports and news editor for the Paris daily newspaper ''Paris-Presse''. Chatrier married tennis player Susan Partridge in 1953. They later divorced. Chatrier later married a second time to French golfer Claudine Cros. Chatrier took part in the merger of professional and amateur tennis organisations in 1968. He was a vice president of the French Tennis Federation (''Fédération française de tennis'') from 1968 to 1973, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Bartrolí
Jaime Bartrolí Mas (23 January 1918 – 20 July 1989) was a Spanish tennis player and coach. Active in the 1940s and 1950s, Bartrolí won a total of 14 national doubles championships, eight in doubles and six in mixed doubles. He is a Barcelona native and was an early participant in the Trofeo Conde de Godó (modern day Barcelona Open), considered an influential figure in encouraging other players to enter the tournament. Bartrolí played for the Spain Davis Cup team from 1946 to 1948, then for one final year in 1954. His most noted contribution to Spanish 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 ... tennis was through his stints as non playing captain, first serving between 1956 and 1958. He led Spain to the 1965 and 1967 Davis Cup finals in his second period as c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Molinari
Jean-Claude Molinari (28 August 1931 – 22 April 1999) was a French former tennis player, originally amateur and later professional. At Wimbledon, he reached the quarter-finals of the men's singles in 1959. In the Davis Cup in 1954, he defeated Ramanathan Krishnan of India in the quarter-finals of the men's singles, 4–6, 4–6, 2–6. In 1957, he and Paul Rémy reached the quarter-finals of the men's doubles, where they were defeated by Mike Davies and Bobby Wilson of Great Britain, 3–6, 6–3, 6–1, 6–3. In 1958, with Pierre Darmon, he reached the semi-finals of the men's doubles, where they were again defeated by Davies and Wilson, 6–4, 3–6, 4–6, 1–6. In 1959, he and Jean-Noel Grinda won the quarter-final of the men's doubles against Gheorghe and Marian Viziru of Romania, 6–1, 6–1 6–4; in 1960, again with Grinda, he reached the semi-finals, where they were defeated by Jan-Erik Lundqvist and Ulf Schmidt of Sweden, 6–2, 4–6, 4–6, 2–6. A ... [...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] |
Henry Billington
Henry Billington (12 November 1908 – 29 November 1980) was a British amateur tennis player, and the maternal grandfather of Tim Henman Timothy Henry Henman (born 6 September 1974) is a British former professional tennis player. Henman played a serve-and-volley style of tennis. He was the first British man to reach the singles semifinals of Wimbledon since Roger Taylor in th .... Billington competed at Wimbledon between 1948 and 1951, and also participated in the Davis Cup on three occasions. His other career singles highlights include winning the Angmering-on-Sea Open two times (1937-38). References External links * 1908 births 1980 deaths English male tennis players People from Newbury, Berkshire British male tennis players Tennis people from Wiltshire {{England-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czesław Spychała
Czesław Spychała (; 1 January 1917 – 25 December 1994) was a Polish tennis player active in the decade before and after World War II. Biography Spychała was born in Posen, German Empire (modern Poznań, Poland). He represented Poland in the Davis Cup on a single occasion. In 1938 Poland played against Italy in the second round of the European zone. He played the doubles match with his teammate Ignacy Tłoczyński against Ferruccio Quintavalle and Valentino Taroni and lost in five sets. Italy won the tie, played on clay courts in Milan, by 3–2. Spychała was scheduled to play the doubles match against The Netherlands in the first round of the 1939 Davis Cup competition but was replaced by Tłoczyński when he did not how up on time. His first participation in a Grand Slam event was the 1938 French Championships. He made it to the third round of the singles event in which he was defeated in straight sets by Robert Abdesselam. That year he was ranked No.3 in Poland. I ... [...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] |
Headley Baxter
Headley Thomas Baxter (29 March 1919 — 31 August 2004) was a British tennis player and coach. He was active from 1939 to 1953 and contested 10 career singles finals and won 6 titles. Career A native of Middlesex, Baxter was the British junior champion in 1935 and 1936. He played his first senior event in 1938 at the Worthing Open where he reached the final, before losing to Alan Brown. In 1939 he won his first singles title at the Cranleigh Open against Guy Cooper. He won through to the singles third round of the 1947 Wimbledon Championships and took a set off third seed Tom Brown before being eliminated. During his playing career he was a member of British Davis Cup teams but was never called upon for a rubber. His career singles highlights include winning the Berkshire Championships three times in 1939, 1946 and 1947. He also won the Cumberland Hard Court Championships in 1948 against Dennis Slack. In addition he was also a losing finalist at the Norfolk Championships in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fausto Gardini
Fausto Gardini (8 March 1930 – 17 September 2008) was an Italian tennis player. He was an Italian Davis Cup player and later captain. Gardini had long arms and legs, was renowned for keeping the ball in play and was very determined. "I could not help but admire Gardini because he always tried" said Ken Rosewall. This is how William McHale described Gardini "A stringy, expressive, cavorting clown, Gardini uses the crowd as his personal cheering section". Gardini made his Grand Slam debut at Roland Garros in 1949, where he lost in round three to Eric Sturgess. At Roland Garros in 1951, Gardini lost in the last 16 to Dick Savitt. At Wimbledon Gardini beat Gardnar Mulloy before losing to Frank Sedgman in the last 16. At Roland Garros in 1952, Gardini beat 17 year old Ken Rosewall and Tony Mottram before losing to Jaroslav Drobny in the last 16. At Wimbledon he lost to Straight Clark in round three. At the 1953 Australian championships, Gardini lost in round two to Ian Ayre. At Rola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |