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John Donald ("Don" or "Donnie") Budge (June 13, 1915 – January 26, 2000) was an American tennis champion who was a World No. 1 player for five years, first as an amateur and then as a professional. He is most famous as the first player, male or female, and only American male to win in a single year the four tournaments that comprise the Grand Slam of tennis and second male player to win all 4 Grand Slams in his career after Fred Perry. He won 10 Majors of which six Grand Slams (consecutively, male record) and four Pro Slams, the latter achieved on three different surfaces. Budge was considered to have the best backhand in the history of tennis, at least until the emergence of Ken Rosewall in the 1950s and 1960s.

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  • Column: Give some props to tennis' early barnstormers

    News Source: The Daily Courier | 22 days ago
    Once you accepted money in almost any regard to the sport of tennis, you were no longer allowed to play in the major events of the U.S. Championships, Wimbledon, the French, Australian, amateur tournaments, or represent your country in Davis Cup.

  • Column: Sports quotes that inspire on and off the court

    News Source: The Daily Courier | 1 month ago
    Maybe those people should read what Teddy Roosevelt had to say: "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,

  • Glory of Men's Tennis Fades in Los Angeles

    News Source: International Herald Tribune | 2 months ago
    Women A glaring exception is tennis, whose Baryshnikov, Roger Federer, has never played a professional match in the city known as the entertainment capital of the world. In a cruel quirk of timing, the relocation of the Los Angeles men's tour stop
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  • Pace M.S. in Publishing » Blog Archive » Sterling Lord ...

    Blog Source: mspub.blogs.pace.edu | 3 months ago
    As a young man from the Midwest, Lord was a nationally ranked tennis player, playing legends like Don Budge and hitting around with eight-time Wimbledon champ Helen Wills Moody. After returning from Paris in the '50s, with his French wife ...

  • 2013 Pacific Coast Men's Doubles Championship – La Jolla ...

    Blog Source: www.10sballs.com | 3 months ago
    ... his professional tennis career with two singles titles and eight doubles championships, Jones served as a National Coach for the United States Tennis Association and went on to coach many players including James Blake, Mardy Fish and ...

  • black social history : black tennis players their early and ...

    Blog Source: sittingbull1845.blogspot.com | 3 months ago
    A significant moment in history occurred in 1940 when Don Budge the number one player in the world played an exhibition match against Jimmy Mcdaniels, it was a history making event because it featured two number one players.
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