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1950 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Budge Patty defeated Frank Sedgman in the final, 6–1, 8–10, 6–2, 6–3 to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 1950 Wimbledon Championships. Ted Schroeder was the defending champion, but decided not to play. Seeds Frank Sedgman ''(final)'' Bill Talbert ''(quarterfinals)'' Jaroslav Drobný ''(semifinals)'' Eric Sturgess ''(quarterfinals)'' Budge Patty (champion) Gardnar Mulloy ''(quarterfinals)'' Art Larsen ''(quarterfinals)'' John Bromwich ''(fourth round)'' Geoff Brown ''(fourth round)'' Ken McGregor ''(fourth round)'' Bill Sidwell ''(fourth round)'' Vic Seixas ''(semifinals)'' Fred Kovaleski ''(fourth round)'' Irvin Dorfman ''(third round)'' Dilip Bose ''(second round)'' Giovanni Cucelli ''(withdrew)'' Giovanni Cucelli Giovanni Cucelli (born as Giovanni Kucel) (13 November 1916 – 29 April 1977) was an Italian tennis player. Cucelli played Davis Cup for Italy and formed a great doubles partnership with Marcello De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budge Patty
Edward John Patty (February 11, 1924 – October 4, 2021), better known as Budge Patty, was an American world no. 1 tennis player whose career spanned a period of 15 years after World War II. He won two Grand Slam singles titles in 1950. He was the second American male player to win the Channel Slam (winning the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year) and one of only four as of 2024 (the others were Don Budge, Tony Trabert and Andre Agassi). Early life Edward John Patty was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on February 11, 1924. His grandmother was born in France, while one of his grandfathers was Austrian. His family relocated to Los Angeles during his childhood, and he attended Los Angeles High School. He was nicknamed "Budge" by his brother, who perceived Patty to be lethargic, resulting in a "failure to budge". Patty started playing tennis as a child, and practised with Pauline Betz every Saturday morning when he was a junior player. After winning the Los Angeles no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athol Tills
Athol may refer to: Places Scotland * Atholl, Scotland, a district in central Scotland Canada * Athol, Nova Scotia, a small community * Athol, Prince Edward County, Ontario, a municipality and census division * Athol, a rural community in North Glengarry, Ontario United States * Athol, Idaho, a city * Athol, Kansas, a city * Athol, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Athol, Massachusetts, a town ** Athol (CDP), Massachusetts, a census-designated place within the town * Athol, original name of Thurman, New York, a town * Athol, South Dakota, an unincorporated community Elsewhere * Athol, Queensland, Australia, a rural locality * Athol, New Zealand, a town * Athol Island, Bahamas Buildings * Athol (Henderson, Maryland), a home on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) * Athol (Simpsonville, Maryland), a historic plantation house * Athol (Edenton, North Carolina), a plantation house on the NRHP * Athol Manor, Columbia, Maryland People * Athol (given name) See also [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Jones (tennis)
Clarence Medlycott "Jimmy" Jones (10 July 1912 – 22 March 1986) was a British tennis player and author (writing under the name C. M. Jones). In major tournaments his best result came at the 1936 Wimbledon Championships where he reached the fourth round. Jones was a successful player winning events on multiple surfaces including clay, cement, grass and wood (indoors). Between 1931 and 1950 he contested 36 career finals and won 22 titles. Career Jones was born in Norwood, London. In 1931 played his first event at the Blackheath tournament where he reached the final and won his first title. In 1933 he was a quarter finalist at the South of France Championships and semi finalist at the French Switzerland Championships and the Nice LTC Cup. In 1935 he won the London Championships but had to share the title with Wilmer Allison. At the 1936 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles he reached the fourth round, where he lost against Wilmer Allison. In 1937 he competed at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boebi Van Meegeren
Robert Andre Lothar van Meegeren (20 August 1924 – December 2017), variously known as "Boebi", "Robert" or "Rob", was a Dutch tennis player. He competed in the 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, and 1953 The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon Championships, reaching the second round once in 1950 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, 1950. He also competed in the 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, and 1955 French Open, French Championships, where in 1948 French Championships – Men's Singles, 1948 and 1949 French Championships – Men's Singles, 1949 he reached the third round. Van Meegeren played in six ties for the Netherlands in the Davis Cup from 1948 to 1954. Van Meegeren won an international tournament in Ostend in 1948 and in the same year the British Hard Court Championships, British Hard Court doubles with Eric Sturgess. After his career he became the owner of a tennis club in the Marlot neighborhood of The Hague He died in December 2017, at the age of 93. References Externa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesar Carmona
Cesar Carmona was a Filipino tennis player. Carmona played for the Philippines Davis Cup team between 1946 and 1951, mostly as the doubles partner of Felicisimo Ampon. The team made the semi-finals of the 1951 Davis Cup Europe Zone. While on a tour of the United States in 1946 he secured a major upset win over reigning collegiate champion Bob Falkenburg Robert Falkenburg (January 29, 1926 – January 6, 2022) was a Brazilian-American amateur tennis player and entrepreneur. He is best known for winning the Men's Singles at the 1948 Wimbledon Championships and introducing soft ice cream and Amer ... at the Western Hardcourt tournament, dropping just four games in the process. Carmona made the singles third round of the 1950 Wimbledon Championships. References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carmona, Cesar Year of birth missing Possibly living people Filipino male tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Kemp (tennis)
Cyril Aubrey Kemp (12 June 1915 — 25 December 2010) was an Irish tennis player active in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. He was also a national representative in the sports of squash and table tennis. The son of an all-round sportsman, Kemp had his best period on the tennis tour in the late 1940s, debuting for the Ireland Davis Cup team in 1946. He made 9 Davis Cup appearances for Ireland from 1946 to 1952. He was singles runner-up at the Irish championships in 1946 and 1947, and won the event in 1950. His run at the 1947 Irish championships included an upset semi-final win over Tom Brown, who was fresh off making a Wimbledon final. In 1948 he won through to the third round at Wimbledon, before losing to the top seeded Frank Parker. Alice Marble (USA), the greatest woman player of her day, came to Dublin in 1939 to compete in the Irish Championships at Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club is a tennis and squash (sport), squash club in Dublin, Ireland, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennart Bergelin
Sven Lennart Bergelin (10 June 1925 – 4 November 2008) was a Swedish tennis player and coach. As a player, for AIK, Bergelin won nine Swedish championship singles titles between 1945 and 1955, and the French Open doubles title in 1948. Bergelin is best known for his work with Björn Borg, whom he trained between 1971 and 1983, helping him to win 11 Grand Slam tournaments. Bergelin also captained Sweden to its first Davis Cup title. ''International Herald Tribune'', 4 November 2008. Tennis career During a ten-year period, between 1946 and 1955, Bergelin was ranked among the top 10 amateur players in the world, reaching World No. 9 in John Olliff< ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimír Černík
Vladimír Černík (9 July 1917 – 2 April 2002) was a Czechs, Czech tennis player who represented Czechoslovakia and later Egypt. He was a mainstay of his country's Davis Cup team in the years immediately following World War II, helping them reach the Inter-Zonal final in successive years in 1947 and 1948, though they fell to Australia Davis Cup team, Australia on both occasions. His biggest individual tournament victories in singles were his two Swiss Open (tennis), Swiss International Championships in 1946 and 1950. In July 1949, he and Davis Cup team-mate Jaroslav Drobný defected while attending that year's Swiss Championships in Gstaad. He continued to tour the amateur tennis circuit thereafter, first with Swiss papers until in 1950 he and Drobný were both granted Egyptian citizenship. Subsequently Černík was able to settle in the United States, and worked for two years as the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, Tar Heels, the men's tennis programme at the Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narendra Nath (tennis)
Narendra Nath (5 May 1922 — 25 August 1999) was an Indian tennis player. Nath, an All-India hard court champion from Lahore, competed on tour in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1950 he won the Surrey Championships, beating reigning champion Czesław Spychała in the final. Nath made the singles third round at Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon twice and was a men's doubles quarter-finalist with countryman Naresh Kumar (tennis), Naresh Kumar in 1953. He was subsequently picked to partner Naresh Kumar in doubles for the 1954 Davis Cup. See also *List of India Davis Cup team representatives References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nath, Narendra 1922 births 1999 deaths Indian male tennis players Tennis players from Lahore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Sanglier
Jacques Andre Emile Sanglier (22 February 1919 – 3 March 2014) was a French politician and tennis player. A native of Paris, Sanglier was active on the tennis tour from the 1930s to 1950s. He made the singles fourth round at the 1946 Wimbledon Championships, before being beaten by Lennart Bergelin. Sanglier was a member of Gaullist Gaullism ( ) is a French political stance based on the thought and action of World War II French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who would become the founding President of the Fifth French Republic. De Gaulle withdrew French forces from t ... political parties and was first elected deputy in 1959. He represented Paris's 22nd constituency in the National Assembly from 1962–1967 and from 1969–1973. He replaced Pierre-Christian Taittinger as a Senator of Paris in 1976 and served the final two years of his term. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanglier, Jacques 1919 births 2014 deaths French male tennis players Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headley Baxter
Headley Thomas Baxter (29 March 1919 – 31 August 2004) was a British tennis player and coach. He was active from 1939 to 1953 and contested 10 career singles finals and won 6 titles. Career A native of Middlesex, Baxter was the British junior champion in 1935 and 1936. He played his first senior event in 1938 at the Worthing Open where he reached the final, before losing to Alan Brown. In 1939 he won his first singles title at the Cranleigh Open against Guy Cooper. He won through to the singles third round of the 1947 Wimbledon Championships and took a set off third seed Tom Brown before being eliminated. During his playing career he was a member of British Davis Cup teams but was never called upon for a rubber. His career singles highlights include winning the Berkshire Championships three times in 1939, 1946 and 1947. He also won the Cumberland Hard Court Championships in 1948 against Dennis Slack. In addition he was also a losing finalist at the Norfolk Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Harper (tennis)
Jack Edwin "Jock" Harper (8 April 1914 – 17 January 2005) was an Australian amateur tennis player who competed mainly in the 1930s and 1940s. He reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Championships in 1946 and was runner-up in the men's doubles in 1937 partnering John Bromwich John Edward Bromwich (14 November 1918 – 21 October 1999) was an Australian tennis player who, along with fellow countryman Vivian McGrath, was one of the first great players to use a two-handed backhand. He was a natural left-hander, though .... In April 1946 Harper lost just a single point when he defeated J. Sandiford 6–0, 6–0 at the Surrey Open Hard Court Championships in a match that lasted 18 minutes, the shortest singles match on record. Grand Slam finals Doubles: (1 runner-up) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Harper, Jack 1914 births 2005 deaths Australian male tennis players Tennis players from Melbourne Sportsmen from Victoria (state) 20th-century Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
