Dean Mathey (November 23, 1890 – April 16, 1972) was an American

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player active in the early 20th century. Namesake of

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, he was raised in

Cranford, New Jersey Cranford is a township in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located southwest of Manhattan. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 23,847, an increase of 1,222 (+5.4%) from the 2010 census count ...

and was a member of the Cranford Golf Club (now called the Echo Lake Country Club). He won the National Clay Court Tennis Doubles Championship twice.http://cranfordhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2012_06_11_11_07_50; Dean Mathey by Robert C. Hall (the fascinating story of an extraordinary man and onetime Cranford resident, including Mathey’s diary for all of 1918 during his military service in World War I).; http://pacf.org/dean-mathey/ (Dean Mathey was born in 1891 and raised in Cranford, N.J. and was a noted trustee of Princeton University); ;http://matheycollege.princeton.edu/about-us/history (Mathey was the namesake of

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Tennis career

Mathey reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. National Championships in

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and the final of the doubles in

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. At the tournament in Cincinnati (now known as the Cincinnati Masters), he reached the semifinals in 1916 where he lost in four sets (2-6, 6-3, 3-6, 4-6) to William Johnston.

Grand Slam tournament performance timeline

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* American male tennis players 1890 births 1972 deaths People from Cranford, New Jersey Sportspeople from Union County, New Jersey Tennis people from New Jersey Princeton Tigers men's tennis players {{US-tennis-bio-stub