William Arthur Knight (born 12 November 1935) is a former
tennis player
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from
Great Britain
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who competed on the amateur tour in the 1950s and 1960s.
Tennis career
Juniors
Before focusing on tennis Knight also played table tennis and won the English singles title in 1951. As a tennis junior he won both the
1953 Wimbledon and
1954 Australian Championships Boys' Singles tournaments.
Amateur tour
Knight's best slam performance was reaching the quarter-finals of the
1959 French Championships. He won the mixed doubles at the same tournament, partnering
Yola Ramírez
Yolanda Ramírez Ochoa (born 1 March 1935) is a Mexican tennis player active in the 1950s and 1960s. She was twice a singles finalist and once a women's doubles champion and mixed doubles champion at the French Open.
Career
Ramírez was a singl ...
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He won the singles title at the
German Championships in Hamburg in 1959.
Knight was a frequent member of the British
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 between 1955 and 1964, reaching the Inter-Zonal group in
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...
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[Ball, Robert (1963)]
"Not Quite All Right, Jack"
''Sports Illustrated'', 7 October 1963.
Grand Slam finals
Mixed doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Junior Grand Slam titles
Singles: 2
References
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English male tennis players
French Championships (tennis) champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
Wimbledon junior champions
Australian Championships (tennis) champions
British male tennis players
1935 births
Living people
Tennis people from Northamptonshire
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles
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