Don Budge
Tennis Tournament Champion
1915 – 2000
Who was Don Budge?
John Donald Budge 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 four Grand Slams in his career after Fred Perry. He won 10 majors, of which six were Grand Slams 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.
Born in Oakland, California, Budge was the son of a Scottish immigrant and former soccer player – his father had played several matches for the Rangers reserve team before emigrating to the United States. Growing up, he played a variety of sports before taking up tennis. He was tall and slim and his height would later help what is still considered one of the most powerful serves of all time. Budge studied at the University of California, Berkeley in late 1933 but left to play tennis with the U.S. Davis Cup auxiliary team.
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- Born
- Jun 13, 1915
Oakland - Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- Oakland
- Died
- Jan 26, 2000
Scranton
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on July 23, 2013
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