Richard Sears
Richard Dudley "Dick" Sears (born October 16, 1861 in Boston , Massachusetts , † April 8, 1943 there ) was an American tennis player and the first winner of the American championships (now the US Open ).
Career
Sears studied law at the prestigious Harvard University . In 1881 he was the first winner of the American tennis championships. He then won the men's singles seven times in a row until 1887, a record that has remained unbroken to this day. From 1887 to 1888 he was President of the American Tennis Association USTA .
His older brother Fred probably played the first modern tennis on American soil with his cousin James Dwight in August 1874.
In 1955 he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame .
swell
- B. Collins: History of Tennis. 2nd Edition. New Chapter Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0 , pp. 642 f.
Web links
Commons : Richard Sears - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
- Richard Sears in the "International Tennis Hall of Fame" (English; with picture)
- ATP profile of Richard Sears (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ H. Gillmeister: cultural history of tennis. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7705-2618-X , p. 257.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sears, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sears, Richard Dudley; Sears, Dick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1943 |
| Place of death | Boston , Massachusetts, USA |