George Robert Broughton Meredith (15 July 1909 — 23 August 1994) was a British

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player.

Career

Born in the Leicestershire village of

Hugglescote Hugglescote is a village on the River Sence in North West Leicestershire, England. The village is about south of the centre of Coalville, and its built-up area is now contiguous with the town. Hugglescote and Donington le Heath were part of th ...

, Meredith was the son of a local doctor. Meredith played cricket for the

Dover College , motto_translation = I cannot refuse the task , established = , closed = , type = Public SchoolIndependent day and boarding , religion = Church of England , headmaster = Simon Fisher , r_head_label = , r_head ...

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 Horace Keats Lester (4 August 1904 – 16 June 1946) was a tennis player from England who competed for Great Britain. He was a pupil at The Leys School, Cambridge. Career Lester took part in the Wimbledon Championships every year from 1923 t ...

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

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. In 1946 he won the

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defeating Peter Hare in the final. In 1947 he won the Northamptonshire Championships at

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against Jeffrey Michelmore. His fourth and final singles title came at the Glamorganshire Championships at

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where he beat Gordon Gwyn Lennox Tuckett in the final. An England representative player, Meredith had his best Wimbledon performance at the

1948 Wimbledon Championships The 1948 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 21 June until Saturday 3 July.2010 Wimbledon Compend ...

, where he won through to the fourth round, before losing to

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. Meredith stepped down as Managing Director of

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sporting goods store Sports Ltd on Belvoir Street in 1980 after working there for many years. He had three daughters with wife Margaret.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Meredith, Bobby 1909 births 1994 deaths British male tennis players English male tennis players Tennis players from Leicestershire People from Hugglescote People educated at Dover College 20th-century British people