Full name Wylie Cameron Grant Olympic Games 1R (1900) Died 1968 US Open 3R (1899) Role Tennis Player | Wimbledon 4R (1908) Name Wylie Grant Country (sports) United States US Open W (1902, 1904) | |
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Born November 24, 1879 ( 1879-11-24 ) | ||
Wylie Cameron Grant (November 24, 1879 – November 1968) was an American tennis champion.
In 1902 and 1904 he won the U.S. National Championships mixed doubles title together with Elisabeth Moore. He was the singles runner-up at the Irish Championships in 1908.
Biography
He was born on November 24, 1879. In 1905 he and Edward Dewhurst made it to the final round of the lawn tennis doubles championship at the St. Nicholas Rink.
Grant won the singles title at the U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships, played on wooden courts at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York, on five occasions (1903, 1904, 1906, 1908 and 1912).
In 1914 he and G.C. Shafer took the title from Gustave F. Touchard and William B. Cragin, Jr., in the championship round of the men's tennis indoor doubles in New York City.