Clarence Clark (tennis)

Clarence Munroe Clark ( born August 27, 1859 in German Town, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † June 29, 1937 ) was an American tennis player.

Career

Clarence Clark won in 1881 together with his compatriot, the engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor, the first American Tennis Championships in men's doubles against Alexander van Rensselaer and Arthur Newbold with 6:5, 6:4, 6:5. A year later, he reached the final in the men's singles competition, but lost Richard Sears with 6:1, 6:4, 6:0. Almost a century later in 1983 was posthumously the induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.