Beals Wright

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Beals Wright Tennis player
Beals Wright
Beals Coleman Wright
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Birthday: December 19, 1879
Date of death: 23rd August 1961
Playing hand: Left, one-handed backhand
singles
Career record: 254: 70
Career title: 27
Highest ranking: 2
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  1
Australian Open -
French Open -
Wimbledon F (1910)
US Open S (1905)
Double
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open -
French Open -
Wimbledon F (1907)
US Open S (1904-1906)
Olympic games
Olympic medals:
gold 1904 St. Louis singles
gold 1904 St. Louis Double
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Beals Coleman Wright (born December 19, 1879 in Boston , Massachusetts , † August 23, 1961 in Alton , Illinois ) was an American tennis player .

Career

Wright's father Harry Wright formed the first baseball team in the United States in 1869 . As a player manager for the Cincinnati Reds , where Harry's brother George Wright also played, he made enough money to send Beals Wright to Harvard University .

Wright was one of the leading lawn tennis players of the time at the beginning of the century. Relatively early in his career, Wright won both gold medals in the 1904 Olympics . In the men's singles he defeated Robert LeRoy in the final . In doubles , he also won gold alongside Edgar Leonard when they again defeated LeRoy and Alphonzo Bell in the final. In 1901 he was in the final of the US National Championships for the first time . Two more times (1906 and 1908) he was only defeated in the final. In 1905 he won his only title in the US singles championships. In addition, he was with the American team in the final of the Davis Cup in the same year . From 1904 to 1906 he won the US doubles championships with Holcombe Ward . In 1910 he became the first American to reach the Wimbledon final. There he lost to the New Zealander Anthony Wilding . Wright was able to win the Canadian Open three times . In 1907, 1908 and 1911 Wright took part in the Davis Cup and twice they were only defeated in the final.

Later in life, he became President of the USLTA (later USTA). In 1956 he was accepted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame .

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personal data
SURNAME Wright, Beals
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wright, Beals Coleman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts, United States
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1961
Place of death Alton , Illinois, United States