Robert LeRoy

Robert LeRoy
Robert LeRoy
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	February 7, 1885
Date of death:	September 7, 1946
1st professional season:	1901
Resignation:	1931
singles
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Robert LeRoy (born February 7, 1885 in New York , † September 7, 1946 there ) was an American tennis player .

LeRoy played college tennis at Columbia University in New York. In 1904 and 1906 he was respectively champion at the NCAA Division I Tennis Championships (NCAA) in the men's singles. His greatest sporting success was winning two silver medals at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis in the men's singles and alongside Alphonzo Bell in the men's doubles. This made him the most successful tennis player of the games of that year after Beals Wright . He collected further merits by reaching the finals at the US Open in 1907, when he was defeated in the final by William Larned , as well as by winning the Cincinnati Masters three times in 1907-1909. He was among the top ten American players a total of three times, with the best result in 1907 when he was fifth best.

LeRoy later worked as a lawyer on Wall Street . he made his Bachelor of Laws in 1908 at Columbia. His wife Grace Arnold Moore was also an ambitious tennis player. In 1923 he founded the Museum of the City of New York , for which he worked as an administrator until his death.

Web links

• Robert LeRoy in the database of Olympedia.org (English)