Harold Melville Burrows Jr (December 24, 1924 — September 20, 2014) was an American

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player. Burrows was raised in

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and served in Europe during the war as a radio operator with the 81st Squadron of the 436th Troop Carrier Group. After the war he captained

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in collegiate tennis and was a three-time state champion, before graduating in 1950. Active on tour in the 1950s, Burrows's career included a singles title at the Paris International Championships in 1951. His doubles partnership with

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ranked amongst the top in the world, with their best win coming in the quarter-finals of the 1953 U.S. National Championships over

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and

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, who were trying to complete the calendar grand slam. In 1954 he became the first native of Virginia to play

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tennis and was part of a winning campaign. He featured in the preliminary America Zone fixtures against the Caribbean and Cuba. Burrows served as a representative for Charlottesville on the

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from 1960 to 1962. He was a member of the

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. In 1990 he was an inductee in the

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Burrows, Hal 1924 births 2014 deaths American male tennis players Tennis people from Virginia Virginia Cavaliers men's tennis players United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II Democratic Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates People from Charlottesville, Virginia

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