Oswald Turnbull
Oswald Graham Noel Turnbull ( born December 20 1890 in Highgate, † 17 December 1970, Whitby ) was a British tennis player.
Career
Turnbull participated in the 1920 Summer Olympics in part in Antwerp, where he teamed with Max Woosnam won the gold medal in the doubles competition. In the final they defeated the Japanese Kashio Seiichiro and Kumagai Ichiya in four sets with 6:2, 5:7, 7:5, 7:5. In individual Turnbull eliminated in the semi-finals and did not come to play at for third place against Charles Winslow, so he was fourth at the end. In mixed doubles, he took up with Winifred McNair, however, they lost their opening game.
Between 1919 and 1926, played Turnbull six games for the British Davis Cup team. He won three of his seven individual lots as he lost his two double batches. During this time he won with the team in the season 1919, the final of the World Group. Against France, he played in a double, the game was lost, however. Great Britain won the match 3-2 and reached the final of the Davis Cup against the Americans. The game ended 1:4, Turnbull did not play.
Weblink
- Oswald Turnbull at Sports- Reference.com (English)
- ITF profile of Oswald Turnbull (English)
- Davis Cup stats by Oswald Turnbull (English)
1896: John Pius Boland / Adolf Friedrich Traun | 1900: Hugh Doherty / Reginald Doherty | 1904: Edgar Leonard / Beals Wright | 1908: Reginald Doherty / George Hillyard (lawn ); Herbert Roper Barrett / Arthur Gore (Hall ) | 1912: Harold Kitson / Charles Winslow (lawn ); Maurice Germot / André Gobert (Hall ) | 1920: Oswald Turnbull / Max Woosnam | 1924: Frank Hunter / Vincent Richards | 1988: Ken Flat / Robert Seguso | 1992: Boris Becker / Michael Stich | 1996: Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde | 2000 Sébastien Lareau / Daniel Nestor | 2004: Fernando Gonzalez / Nicolas Massú | 2008: Roger Federer / Stanislas Wawrinka | 2012: Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
- Man
- Tennis Player ( United Kingdom )
- Olympian (United Kingdom)
- Born in 1890
- Died in 1970