Wylie Cameron Grant

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Wylie Grant

Grant in 1914
Full name Wylie Cameron Grant
Country  United States
Born November 24, 1879
Died November 1968 (aged 88 or 89)
Singles
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon 4R (1908)
US Open 3R (1899)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games 1R (1900)

Wylie Cameron Grant (November 24, 1879 – November 1968) was an American tennis champion.[1]

In 1902 and 1904 he won the U.S. National Championships mixed doubles title together with Elisabeth Moore. He was the singles runner-up at the Irish Championships in 1908.

Biography

He was born on November 24, 1879.[2] In 1905 he and Edward Dewhurst made it to the final round of the lawn tennis doubles championship at the St. Nicholas Rink.

Grant won the singles title at the U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships, played on wooden courts at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York, on five occasions (1903, 1904, 1906, 1908 and 1912).[3]

In 1914 he and G.C. Shafer took the title from Gustave F. Touchard and William B. Cragin, Jr., in the championship round of the men's tennis indoor doubles in New York City.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Wrenn Brothers Lose In Fast Tennis Match". New York Times. April 18, 1905. Retrieved August 22, 2010. "Dashing racquet work backed by accurate play brought Holcombe Ward and Beals C. Wright, the national champion, and Wylie Cameron Grant and Edward B. Dewhurst through to the final round of the lawn tennis doubles yesterday on the courts of the St. Nicholas Rink." 
  2. ↑ World War I draft registration
  3. ↑ Robertson, Max (1974). The Encyclopedia of Tennis. London: Allen & Unwin. p. 338. ISBN 9780047960420. 
  4. ↑ "Grant And Shafer Hold Tennis Title. Indoor Doubles Champions Defeat Touchard and Cragin, 3 Sets to 2". New York Times. February 22, 1914. Retrieved August 22, 2010. "The steadiness of G.C. Shafer and the smashing of Wylie C. Grant proved too much for Gustave F. Touchard and William B. Cragin, Jr., in the championship round of the men's indoor doubles yesterday on the Seventh Armory courts, Sixty-sixth Street and Park Avenue." 
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