19April 1906. (1906-04-19) (aged 56) Ramsgate, Kent, England. Singles. Grand Slam singles results. Wimbledon. W ( 1877) Spencer William Gore (10 March 1850 – 19 April 1906) was an English tennis player who won the first Wimbledon tournament in 1877 and a first-class cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club (1874–1875).
So Fred Perry. Of what I own I would personally rank them in the following order: 1. Fred Perry - Best design with tipping, heritage and more expensive versions

ButRené Lacoste would not have been René Lacoste without the other “Mousquetaires” – Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon and Henri Cochet – a legendary team of French tennis champions from the late 1920s, who won the Davis Cup in 1927 and 1928.

In1983, Fred Perry ranked the greatest male players of all time and put them in to two categories, before World War 2 and after. Perry's pre-WWII nominees all below Tilden and excluding himself "Budge, Cochet, Ellsworth Vines 'so powerful!', Gottfried von Cramm, Jack Crawford, Jari Sato, Jean Borotra, Bunny Austin, Roderick Menzel, Baron Umberto
GottfriedAlexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm (German: [ˈɡɔtfʁiːt fɔn ˈkʁam] ⓘ; 7 July 1909 – 8 November 1976) was a German tennis player who won the French Championships twice and reached the final of a Grand Slam singles tournament on five other occasions. He was ranked number 2 in the world in 1934 and 1936, and
Its the year 1923, in Boston, USA. Before a tennis match, René Lacoste notices an elegant crocodile skin suitcase in a shop window. His coach promises to give it to him if he wins. He loses . 464 205 61 150 467 490 361 413

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