Fred Perry
Fred Perry ( born May 18, 1909 in Stockport, England as Frederick John Perry, † February 2nd 1995 in Melbourne, Australia) was a British table tennis player, tennis players and fashion designer. He once won the World Table Tennis Championships, three times in a row the Wimbledon tournament in tennis and stood there a second time in the final.
Career
Perry's father Sam was a cotton spinner ( the second largest socialist party after the Labour Party ) worked for the local " Co-operative Party".
Perry attended the Ealing County School. In his youth he played only polo and table tennis. In the 1929 World Cup, he became world champion in table tennis in Budapest.
Immediately thereafter, Perry ended his table tennis career and focused on tennis. Already in the summer of 1929, he qualified for participation in the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Perry won the tournament from 1934 to 1936 three times in succession. He was the first Wimbledon champion, who came from the working class.
Many other international successes are the reason that he is more than tennis players as well-known as a table tennis player. In particular, the "glorious " English Davis Cup victory over France in 1933 is the English good memories, it was the first Davis Cup win since 1912.
From 1931 to 1936 Perry was led into the top ten in the world rankings.
The late 1930s, Fred Perry was a professional tennis player in the United States. He married there in 1935, the American actress Helen Vinson, the marriage was divorced in 1938. In 1938 he acquired the U.S. citizenship. As a tennis player he was here on tour. During the Second World War he was in the U.S. Army. He returned in 1947 to England. In 1941 he married his second wife Sandra Breaux, 1945 Lorraine Walsh, after the divorce finally 1952 Barbara Rice, a sister of the actress Patricia Roc. With her he had a daughter (born 1958 ).
Perry wrote some newspaper articles about tennis and worked for several Wimbledon tournaments as a radio reporter for the BBC.
1984 was built at the gates of Wimbledon the Fred Perry statue.
The Fred Perry Brand
After his return to England in 1947, he mocked the fact that the Wimbledon players wore green shirts of the army and had therefore make 75 white polo shirts, which he presented to the players. First, these shirts had no badge yet. Players who wanted to thank you for the gift of polo shirts, the idea to provide the shirts with a logo that should remind you of the founders Perry had. Perry opted for the laurel wreath that he had won the 1934 All England Cup.
The Polos by Fred Perry logo were very popular with the mods first (1962-1969) and later with the skinheads. This has not changed until today. Particularly in the early 1990s came the brand in East Germany as an alleged " neo-Nazi brand " in the media a bad name, an image that could not quite get rid of until today. The company Fred Perry has always fought against any kind of political appropriation.
After the second phase of the high mark the beginning of the 1980s ( Mod Revival, 2-tone ) the company Fred Perry experienced by the end of the 90s a losing streak. Especially from Scandinavia, the brand with many collections ( for Perry ) new scenes very successfully spread (skins, hardcore, punk, ultras, hooligans beat).
Achievements
Table tennis
- World Championships 1928 in Stockholm: 2nd place doubles (with Charles Bull ), 3rd place Mixed with Winifred country, 3rd place with an English team
- 1929 in Budapest: World champion in singles, 3rd doubles (with Charles Bull ), 3rd place with an English team
Results from the ITTF database
Tennis
- Wimbledon 1932 - Final double
- 1934 - Victory Item ( final against Jack Crawford )
- 1935 - Victory Item ( final against Gottfried von Cramm ), Victory Mixed with Dorothy Round
- 1936 - Victory Item ( final against Gottfried von Cramm ), Victory Mixed with Dorothy Round