Wilberforce Eaves
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| Full name | Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves | |||||||||
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| Country (sports) | Great Britain | |||||||||
| Born | 10 December 1867 Melbourne, NSW, Australia |
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| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. London, England |
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| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) | |||||||||
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| Career record | {{#property:P564}} | |||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (1897, Karoly Mazak)[1] | |||||||||
| Grand Slam Singles results | ||||||||||
| Wimbledon | F (1895AC, 1896AC, 1897AC) | |||||||||
| US Open | F (1897Ch) | |||||||||
| Career record | {{#property:P555}} | |||||||||
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Medal record
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Dr. Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves MBE (10 December 1867 – 10 February 1920) was a former co-World No. 1 male tennis player from the United Kingdom. At the 1908 London Olympics he won a bronze medal in the Men's Singles tournament.[2]
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Biography
He reached the Men's Singles All-Comers' final at the Wimbledon Championships in 1895 and lost against Wilfred Baddeley despite having had a matchpoint in the third set. In 1897 he became the first non-American to reach the final in the US National Singles Championships. He lost the final in five sets to American Robert Wrenn.[3]
Eaves won the Irish title in 1895, the Welsh title in 1897 and the Scottish title in 1901. He won the British Covered Court Championships, played at Queen's Club in London, in 1897, 1898 and 1899.[4]
He served as a civil surgeon in the Boer War, and took a temporary commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the first week of World War I, on 10 August 1914, being promoted to Captain after a year's service.[5]
Grand Slam singles finals
Runner-ups (1)
| Year | Championship | Opponent | Score |
| 1897 | U.S. Championships |  Robert Wrenn |
6–4, 6–8, 3–6, 6–2, 2–6 |
See also
References
- ↑ Mazak, Karoly (2010). The Concise History of Tennis, p. 25.
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- 1867 births
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- British Army personnel of World War I
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- Members of the Order of the British Empire
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- Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
