Richard Sears (tennis)

Richard Dudley "Dick" Sears ( born October 16, 1861 in Boston, Massachusetts, † April 8, 1943 ) was an American tennis player and the first winner of the U.S. Championships (now the U.S. Open).

Career

Sears studied law at the prestigious Harvard University. In 1881 he was the first winner of the American Tennis Championships. He won the men's singles then until 1887, seven times in a row, a record that remains unbroken to this day. From 1887 to 1888 he was president of the American Tennis Association USTA.

His older brother Fred played probably together with his cousin James Dwight in August 1874, the first modern tennis on American soil.

1955 was admitted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Swell

• Collins, B.: History of tennis. 2nd edition. New Chapter Press, New York, 2010. 642 pp. ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0 f.