John McDiarmid (August 12, 1911 – November 4, 1982) was a
tennis player in the 1930s and 1940s. He was born in
Beckley, West Virginia
Beckley is a city in and the county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. It was founded on April 4, 1838. This city is the home of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology or West Virginia University, Beckley Campus.
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Tennis career
In singles, McDiarmid was ranked as high as No. 7 in the United States, achieving that ranking in 1936. That year he was a semifinalist at the U.S. Clay Court Championships and at
Cincinnati, and a quarterfinalist at the
U.S. National Championship. He also was a finalist at the Kentucky State Championships in 1936 and won the Chicago City Championships that year, as he was living there at the time.
In 1937, he reached the singles final in Cincinnati before falling to
Bobby Riggs
Robert Larimore Riggs (February 25, 1918 – October 25, 1995) was an American tennis champion who was the World No. 1 amateur in 1939 and World No. 1 professional in 1946 and 1947. He played his first professional tennis match on December ...
.
McDiarmid was also a doubles player. He paired with
Eugene McCauliff
Eugene Henry McCauliff (January 24, 1909 – August 13, 1984) was an American tennis player.
Based in Yonkers, McCauliff played collegiate tennis for Fordham University.
McCauliff was a four-time national indoor doubles champion and featured a ...
to reach the doubles final at the U.S. Nationals in 1936, and to win back-to-back doubles titles in Cincinnati in 1936 and 1937. No other doubles team would win consecutive titles in Cincinnati until 69 years later when
Jonas Björkman
Jonas Lars Björkman (; born 23 March 1972) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He is a former world No. 1 in doubles, and also a former world No. 4 in singles. Björkman retired from professional tennis after competing at the 2008 T ...
and
Max Mirnyi successfully defended their 2005 Cincinnati doubles title by winning the title in 2006.
He also was a doubles finalist in Cincinnati in 1933.
McDiarmid attended
Texas Christian University, and has been inducted into that school's Letterman's Association Hall of Fame, as well as the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.
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External links
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TCU Letterman's Hall of Fame
1911 births
1982 deaths
American male tennis players
Sportspeople from Beckley, West Virginia
TCU Horned Frogs men's tennis players
Tennis people from West Virginia
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