Charles Dixon (tennis player)

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Charles Dixon (tennis player)
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United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Olympic Summer Games
gold 1912 Stockholm Mixed (hall)
silver 1912 Stockholm Single (hall)
bronze 1912 Stockholm Double (hall)

Charles Percy Dixon (born February 7, 1873 in Grantham , Lincolnshire , † April 29, 1939 in London ) was an English lawyer and tennis player .

Life

Dixon was born in Grantham in 1873. He studied law at Cambridge University and later worked as a solicitor .

From 1893 he took part in tennis tournaments. At the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 , he won the mixed gold medal in indoor tennis. He also won bronze in men's doubles and silver in singles. In 1908 Dixon had already won bronze in men's doubles.

In 1912 and 1913 he won the doubles competitions at Wimbledon and 1912 at the Australian tennis championships together with James Parke . From 1909 to 1913 he also took part in the Davis Cup for Great Britain .

Dixon died in 1939 at the age of 66 in West Norwood, London .

title

Double

No. year competition partner Final opponent Bottom line
1. 1912 Wimbledon Championships United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Herbert Roper Barrett FranceFrance André Gobert Max Décugis
FranceFrance 
3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4, 7: 5
2. 1912 Australian championships United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland James Cecil Parke United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Alfred Ernest Beamish Francis Gordon Lowe
United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 
6: 4, 6: 4, 6: 2
3. 1913 Wimbledon Championships United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Herbert Roper Barrett German EmpireThe German Imperium Heinrich Kleinschroth Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe
German EmpireThe German Imperium 
6: 2, 6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 2

Mixed

No. year competition partner Final opponent Bottom line
1. 1912 Olympic games United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Edith Hannam United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Helen Aitchison Herbert Roper Barrett
United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 
4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2

literature

  • L. Tingay: One Hundred Years of Wimbledon. Guinness World Records Ltd, London 1977, ISBN 0-900424-71-0 , p. 197

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Percy Dixon. tennisarchives.com, accessed on January 5, 2016 (English).