Malcolm Chace

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Malcolm Greene Chace (born March 12, 1875 in Valley Falls , Rhode Island , † July 16, 1955 in Yarmouth , Massachusetts ) was an American tennis player .

Career

Chace won the Intercollegiate Championship in singles and doubles from 1893 to 1895 . The double competition of 1893 he won together with Joseph Clark for Brown University . In 1894 and 1895 he won for Yale University . Chace was the only player to win the singles and doubles titles three times in a row. He succeeded in doing this for two different universities .

At the American Tennis Championships in 1895 Chace won together with Robert Wrenn against Clarence Hobart and Fred Hovey in three sets with 7: 5, 6: 1 and 8: 6. In 1896 the two faced their compatriots Carr Neel and Sam Neel in the final , but lost to them in five sets with 3: 6, 6: 1, 1: 6, 6: 3 and 1: 6. In the individual he reached the semi-finals in 1894, but failed to William Larned .

In 1961, Chace was posthumously inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame .

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