Fred Perry

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Fred Perry Tennis player
Fred Perry
Fred Perry (ca.1934–1936)
Nation: United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Birthday: May 18, 1909
1st professional season: 1936
Resignation: 1956
Playing hand: Right, one-handed backhand
singles
Highest ranking: 1 (1934)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  8
Australian Open S (1934)
French Open S (1935)
Wimbledon S (1934, 1935, 1936)
US Open S (1933, 1934, 1936)
Double
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  2
Australian Open S (1934)
French Open S (1933)
Wimbledon F (1932)
US Open -
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Fred Perry (born May 18, 1909 in Stockport , England as Frederick John Perry , † February 2, 1995 in Melbourne , Australia ) was a British table tennis player , tennis player and fashion designer . He won the table tennis world championship once, the Wimbledon tennis tournament three times in a row and was in the final there again.

Career

Perry's father, Samuel Frederick Perry, was a cotton spinner who worked for the local Co-operative Party (the second largest socialist party after the Labor Party ). From 1933 until his death on October 19, 1954, he was Vice President of the English Table Tennis Association ETTA .

Fred Perry attended Ealing County School. In his youth he only played polo and table tennis. At the 1929 World Cup in Budapest, he became world champion in table tennis.

Immediately afterwards, Perry ended his table tennis career and concentrated on tennis. As early as the summer of 1929 he qualified for participation in the tennis tournament at Wimbledon. Perry won the tournament three times in a row from 1934 to 1936. He was the first Wimbledon winner to come from the working class .

Many other international successes are the reason that he is known more as a tennis player than as a table tennis player. The English have fond memories of the “glorious” English Davis Cup win against France in 1933; it was the first Davis Cup win since 1912.

From 1931 to 1936 Perry was listed in the top ten of the world rankings.

In the late 1930s, Fred Perry went to the United States as a professional tennis player. There he married the American actress Helen Vinson in 1935 , and they divorced in 1938. In 1938 he acquired US citizenship. As a professional tennis player, he went on tour here. During the Second World War he was in the US Army. He did not return to England until 1947. In 1941 he married Sandra Breaux for a second time, Lorraine Walsh in 1945, and finally after the divorce in 1952 Barbara Reis, a sister of the actress Patricia Roc . He had a daughter with her (* 1958).

Perry wrote several newspaper articles about tennis and worked as a radio reporter for the BBC during several Wimbledon tournaments .

In 1984 the Fred Perry statue was erected at the gates of Wimbledon .

The Fred Perry brand

Folk punk rocker Al Barr ( Dropkick Murphys ) with a Fred Perry polo shirt.

When he returned to England in 1947, he made fun of the fact that Wimbledon players were wearing army green shirts and had 75 white polo shirts made, which he gave to the players. At first these shirts did not have an emblem. The players, who wanted to say thank you for the polo shirts they received, had the idea of ​​adding a logo to the shirts to remember the founder, Perry. Perry opted for the laurel wreath he won at the All England Cup in 1934.

The polos with the Fred Perry logo first became very popular with the mods (1962–1969) and later with the skinheads . In the early 1990s in particular, the brand fell into disrepute in the media as an alleged “neo-Nazi brand” in East Germany, an image that Fred Perry has now largely got rid of. The Fred Perry company has always resisted any kind of political appropriation.

After the brand's second high phase in the early 1980s (Mod Revival , 2-tone ), the Fred Perry company experienced a dry spell until the end of the 1990s. Especially from Scandinavia, the brand has spread very successfully with many collections in (for Perry) new scenes ( hardcore punk , punk , ultras , beat ).

successes

Memorial to Fred Perry at Wimbledon

Table tennis

  • World championships
    • 1928 in Stockholm: 2nd place doubles (with Charles Bull ), 3rd place mixed with Winifred Land, 3rd place with English team
    • 1929 in Budapest: world champion in singles, 3rd place doubles (with Charles Bull ), 3rd place with English team
  • open English championships
    • 1926/27: 2nd place individual (behind the Indian SRGSuppiah)
    • 1927/28: 1st place doubles (with Charles Bull )
    • 1928/29: Semi-finals singles, 1st place doubles (with Charles Bull ), 1st place mixed (with Winifred Land)
    • 1929/30: 1st place doubles (with Charles Bull )
    • 1932/33: 1st place individual (consolation round)

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CLOSELY  World Championship  1929  Budapest  HUN   gold  Semifinals  last 16  3
CLOSELY  World Championship  1928  Stockholm  SWE   Quarter finals  silver  Semifinals  3

tennis

  • Wimbledon
    • 1932 - Final doubles
    • 1934 - Singles victory (final against Jack Crawford )
    • 1935 - Victory singles (final against Gottfried von Cramm ), victory mixed with Dorothy Round
    • 1936 - Victory singles (final against Gottfried von Cramm), victory mixed with Dorothy Round
  • Australia: Australian Open
    • 1934 - victory singles (final against Jack Crawford), victory doubles with Pat Hughes
    • 1935 - final singles, final doubles
  • France: French Open
    • 1932 - Mixed victory with Betty Nuthall
    • 1933 - Doubles victory with Pat Hughes, Final Mixed
    • 1935 - Victory singles (final against Gottfried von Cramm)
    • 1936 - Final singles
  • USA: US Open
    • 1932 - Victory Mixed with Sarah Palfrey
    • 1933 - Singles victory (final against Jack Crawford)
    • 1934 - Victory singles (final against Wilmer Allison )
    • 1936 - victory singles (final against Don Budge )

See also

philately

The UK Post honored Fred Perry with a postage stamp on October 8, 2009 ( Michel Catalog No. 2805).

literature

Web links

Commons : Fred Perry  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Table Tennis magazine, November 1954, page 3 Online (accessed November 18, 2014)
  2. ^ A b newspaper The Independent February 3, 1995: OBITUARIES: Fred Perry Online (accessed December 30, 2015)
  3. ↑ Tina Kaiser: Cool Britannia adorns herself again with clothes from Fred Perry. Die Welt, June 15, 2009, accessed October 24, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Fred Perry results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 14, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Perry, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perry, Frederick John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British table tennis and tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockport , England
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1995
Place of death Melbourne , Australia