Country (sports) Great Britain Role Tennis player Wimbledon F (1895, 1896, 1897) Turned pro 1886 | US Open F (1897) Highest ranking No. Name Wilberforce Eaves | |
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Full name Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand) Olympic medals Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's Outdoor Singles People also search for Major Ritchie, Otto Froitzheim, Ede Toth | ||
Dr. Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves MBE (10 December 1867 – 10 February 1920) was a former co-world No. 1 male tennis player from the United Kingdom. At the 1908 London Olympics he won a bronze medal in the Men's Singles tournament.
Biography
He reached the Men's Singles All-Comers' final at the Wimbledon Championships in 1895 and lost against Wilfred Baddeley despite having had a match point in the third set. In 1897 he became the first non-American to reach the final in the US National Singles Championships. He lost the final in five sets to American Robert Wrenn.
Eaves won the Welsh Championships in 1895 the Irish Championships in 1897, and the Scottish Championships in 1901. He won the British Covered Court Championships, played at Queen's Club in London, in 1897, 1898 and 1899.
He served as a civil surgeon in the Boer War, and took a temporary commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the first week of World War I, on 10 August 1914, being promoted to Captain after a year's service.