Clarence Clark

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"For the Wyoming politician, see Clarence D. Clark.

Clarence Munroe Clark (August 27, 1859 - June 29, 1937) was an American tennis player active at the end of the 19th century.

Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, he was part of a distinguished family from Philadelphia. In 1881, he became the first secretary of the recently-formed U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. This same year he won the first doubles tournament in the U.S. National Championships (later called the US Open), playing with Frederick Winslow Taylor, after defeating first the favored Richard Sears/James Dwight, and in the final round, Alexander van Rensselaer/Arthur Newbold (6-5, 6-4, 6-5). In 1882 he reached the singles final of the championships, where he lost to the previous year's champion, Richard Sears (6-1, 6-4, 6-0).

He married the sister of his doubles partner, the engineer and organizational theorist Frederick Taylor. He died in 1937 and was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1983, together with his brother Joseph Clark, who was inducted in 1955.

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