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Key facts
- Full name
- Frederick Towersey Perry
- Country sports
- Great Britain
- Born
- ( 1909-05-18 ) 18 May 1909, Portwood , Stockport , England
- Died
- 2 February 1995 (1995-02-02) (aged 85), Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
- Height
- 6 ft (183 cm)
- Turned pro
- 1923 (amateur from 1929)
- Plays
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Int tennis hof
- 1975 ( member page )
- Career record
- 695–281
- Highest ranking
- No. 1 (1934 , A. Wallis Myers )
- Australian open
- W ( 1934 )
- French open
- W ( 1935 )
- Wimbledon
- W ( 1934 , 1935 , 1936 )
- Us open
- W ( 1933 , 1934 , 1936 )
- Us pro
- W ( 1938 , 1941 )
- Wembley pro
- QF ( 1951 , 1952 )
- Davis cup
- W ( 1933 , 1934 , 1935 , 1936 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Fred
- Family name
- Perry
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Stockport
- Place of death
- Melbourne
- Spouse
- Helen Vinson
- Occupation
- table tennis player
- Employer
- Washington and Lee University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Great Britain Davis Cup team
- Country for sport
- United Kingdom
- Official website
- www.fredperry.com
- Image
- Fred Perry 01.jpg
- Height
- 183
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- Commons category
- Fred Perry
- date of birth
- 1909-05-18
- date of death
- 1995-02-02
- handedness
- right-handedness
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- singles record
- 101–15
- end of work period
- 1956-00-00
- start of work period
- 1936-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Frederick Towersey Perry (18 May 1909 – 2 February 1995) was a British tennis and table tennis player and former world No. 1. He won 10 Majors, including eight Grand Slam tournaments and two Pro Slams single titles, as well as six Major doubles titles. Perry was the first player to win a "Career Grand Slam", lifting all four singles titles, which he completed at the age of 26 at the 1935 French Championships. He remains the only British player to achieve this feat.
He won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships from 1934 to 1936 and was world amateur No. 1 player during those three years. Prior to Andy Murray in 2013, Perry was the last British player to win the men's Wimbledon championship and the last British player to win a men's singles Grand Slam title until Andy Murray won the 2012 US Open.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fred Perry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.