Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves
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 Eaves (1900) |
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Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves (born December 10, 1867 in Melbourne , Australia , † February 2 or 10, 1920 in London ) was a British doctor and tennis player .
Life
Eaves was born in St Kilda , Melbourne in 1867 , but came to England at a young age and graduated from London in 1889 to study medicine. Later he took part in the Second Boer War. At the beginning of the First World War he reported again to the medical service of the Royal Army Medical Corps and was promoted to captain after a year .
As an outstanding tennis player, he took part in the Wimbledon Championships for the first time in 1895 and reached the final there, which he lost to Wilfred Baddeley despite a match ball . Two years later he was in the final of the US championships , but also lost there against Robert Wrenn in five sets. In 1907 he played for Great Britain in the Davis Cup . At the Olympic Games in London in 1908 , he won the bronze medal. Until 1911 he competed regularly at the Wimbledon tournament.
Eaves died of an operation in a London nursing home in 1920.
Awards
- Member of the Order of the British Empire
Individual evidence
- ^ Collins, B .: History of Tennis. 2nd Edition. New Chapter Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0 , p. 688
- ↑ Obituary . In: British Medical Journal of February 21, 1920, PMC 2337269 (free full text)
- ^ Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves. tennisarchives.com, accessed on October 4, 2012 (English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Eaves, Wilberforce Vaughan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British doctor and tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melbourne , Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: February 2, 1920 or February 10, 1920 |
| Place of death | London , England , UK |