Malcolm Chace

Malcolm Greene Chace ( born March 12, 1875 in Valley Falls, Rhode Iceland, † July 16, 1955 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts) was an American tennis player.

Career

Chace won from 1893 to 1895, the Intercollegiate Championship in the singles and in doubles. The doubles competition of the year 1893, he won together with Joseph Clark for Brown University. In the years 1894 and 1895 he won for Yale University. Chace was the only player to have won three consecutive titles in the singles and in doubles. He succeeded for two different universities.

The American Tennis Championships 1895 Chace won with Robert Wrenn against Clarence Hobart and Fred Hovey in three sets 7:5, 6:1 and 8:6. 1896 the two stood their countrymen Carr Neel Neel and Sam play in the final, but were subject to them in five sets 3:6, 6:1, 1:6, 6:3 and 1:6. In individual he reached the semi-finals in 1894, but failed to William Larned.

In 1961, Chace was posthumously inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

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