Michael Preston Hann (born 24 August 1937) is a former British tennis player who won the Wimbledon Boys' singles title in 1955.
Tennis career
In 1955 Hann won the
Wimbledon Boys' Singles title when he beat
Jan-Erik Lundqvist
Jan-Erik Lundqvist (born 14 April 1937) is a Swedish former international tennis player. During the entire 1960s he was Sweden's best tennis player.
At the height of his career, he won at least 35 international titles and played 91 Davis Cup-ma ...
in the final.
Hann competed on the amateur circuit during the 1950s and 60s and won 12 titles, all in the United Kingdom. In June 1953, two months before his 16th birthday, Hann won the
Chapel Allerton Gentleman’s Singles Championships in Leeds. He also won this Championship in 1954 and 1956.
Hann participated at the Wimbledon Championships, in the singles and/or doubles, for a period of 13 years from 1955 to 1967. His best results were to reach the third round in the singles on three occasions and the fourth round in doubles once, in 1963 when he and his partner,
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lost to
Gordon Forbes
Gordon Forbes (21 February 1934 – 9 December 2020) was a South African professional tennis player and author. Forbes won the singles title of the South African Championships in 1959 and 1961 and was runner-up in 1955, 1962, 1963 and 1964. H ...
and
Abe Segal
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Early life and career
He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was Jewish.
During the 1950s and 1960s, he was the doubles partner of Gordon Forb ...
.
Junior Grand Slam titles
Singles: 1
References
External links
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1937 births
Living people
British male tennis players
Wimbledon junior champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles
Sportspeople from Sheffield
English male tennis players
Tennis people from South Yorkshire