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词条 Wilberforce Eaves
释义

  1. Biography

  2. Grand Slam finals

      Singles (1 runner-up) 

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

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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.[4]

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 match point 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.[5]

Eaves won the Welsh Championships in 1895 the Irish Championships in 1897, and the Scottish Championships in 1901. He won the British Covered Court Championships, played at Queen's Club in London, in 1897, 1898 and 1899.[6]

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.[7]

Grand Slam finals

Singles (1 runner-up)

OutcomeYearChampionshipSurfaceOpponentScore
Runner-up1897U.S. Championships Grass USA}} Robert Wrenn6–4, 6–8, 3–6, 6–2, 2–6

See also

  • World number one male tennis player rankings

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Wilberforce Eaves: Career match record|url=https://app.thetennisbase.com/?enlace=playern&player_input_enc=EAVES%2C+WILBERFORCE&player_input=EAVES%2C+WILBERFORCE&sub=2#aSubmenu|website=thetennisbase.com|publisher=Tennis Base|accessdate=19 October 2017}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Wilberforce Eaves: Career match record|url=https://app.thetennisbase.com/?enlace=playern&player_input_enc=EAVES%2C+WILBERFORCE&player_input=EAVES%2C+WILBERFORCE&sub=2#aSubmenu|website=thetennisbase.com|publisher=Tennis Base|accessdate=19 October 2017}}
3. ^Mazak, Karoly (2010). The Concise History of Tennis, p. 25.
4. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ea/wilberforce-eaves-1.html |title=Wilberforce Eaves Olympic Results |accessdate=2014-01-27 |work=sports-reference.com}}
5. ^{{cite book|last=Collins|first=Bud|title=The Bud Collins History of Tennis|year=2010|publisher=New Chapter Press|location=[New York]|isbn=978-0942257700|edition=2nd|pages=415, 455, 688}}
6. ^{{cite journal|title=Obituary|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2337269/pdf/brmedj06757-0037c.pdf|journal=British Medical Journal|accessdate=3 June 2012|page=276|format=PDF|date=21 February 1920|pmc=2337269}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=Commemorative Roll - Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves|url=http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/commemorative_roll/person.asp?p=565440|publisher=Australian War Memorial|accessdate=3 June 2012}}

External links

{{Commons category|Wilberforce Eaves}}
  • {{ITF profile|10015534}}
  • {{ATP|e973}}
  • TennisArchives profile
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