Frederick Hovey

Frederick "Fred" Howard Hovey ( born October 7, 1868 in Newton, Massachusetts, † October 18, 1945 in Miami Beach ) was an American tennis player and single winner of the U.S. Championships in 1895.

Life

Hovey, a student at Harvard University, won in 1890 and 1891 at the Intercollegiate Championships in singles and in the doubles alongside Robert Wrenn. In 1893 he won the tennis tournament, which was played during the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

In 1895 he defeated Wrenn in the finals of the U.S. Championships in Newport and achieved his greatest success after he was drafted in 1892 and 1893 finals. The following year, however, Wrenn struck him in the Challenge Round.

In doubles, he was successful in the U.S. Championships in 1893 and 1894 on the side of Clarence Hobart.

He died in 1945, just eleven days after his 77th birthday, in Miami Beach.

Title

Singles

Doubles

Sources and links

• Fred Hovey in the " International Tennis Hall of Fame" (English, with picture)
• Bud Collins: History of tennis. 2nd edition. New Chapter Press, New York, 2010. ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0, pp. 590

Comments

• Tennis player (United States)
• Member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame
• Born in 1868
• Died in 1945
• Man