Full name Adrian Karl Quist Name Adrian Quist Handed Right-handed Career titles 19 Retired 1955 | Grand slams won (singles) 3 Country (sports) Australia Role Tennis player Turned pro 1930 | |
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Born 23 January 1913
Medindie, South Australia ( 1913-01-23 ) Plays Right-handed (1-handed backhand) Highest ranking No. 3 (1939, Gordon Lowe) Died November 17, 1991, Sydney, Australia Similar People John Bromwich, Jack Crawford, Margaret Court, Jana Novotna | ||
Int. Tennis HoF 1984 (member page) | ||
Tennis Match For Red Cross (1940)
Adrian Karl Quist (23 January 1913 – 17 November 1991) was an Australian tennis player.
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Biography
Adrian Quist was born in Medindie, South Australia. His father was Karl Quist, who had been a noted interstate cricketer, and owned a sporting goods store at the time of his son's birth. The tennis legend grew up in Adelaide and once played Harry Hopman, but lost, having given Hopman a head start. He was a three-time Australian Championships men's singles champion but is primarily remembered today as a great doubles player. He won the Australian doubles title 10 years in a row, the last eight together with John Bromwich and he was also one of the winners of a "Career Doubles Slam". Quist was ranked World No. 3 in 1939 and World No. 4 in 1936.
In his 1979 autobiography tennis great Jack Kramer writes that in doubles "Quist played the backhand court. He had a dink backhand that was better for doubles than singles, and a classic forehand drive with a natural sink. He was also fine at the net, volley and forehand."
Quist was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1984.
Adrian Quist also held the most Davis Cup victories by any Australian until Lleyton Hewitt surpassed that record on 18 September 2010 in Cairns.
He died in Sydney, New South Wales in 1991, aged 78.
Adrian Quist is the uncle of fashion designer Neville Quist, founding director of Saville Row.