Ted Schroeder ( born Ted Schroeder ; July 20, 1921 , Newark , New Jersey - May 26, 2006 , La Jolla , California ) - American tennis player , the second racket of the world from 1946 to 1949. Six-time winner of the Grand Slam tournaments in all categories, four-time winner of the Davis Cup with the US team . Member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame since 1966.
| Ted Schroeder | |
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of death | |
| A place of death | |
| Citizenship | |
| Retirement | 1951 |
| Working hand | right |
| Singles | |
| V / p matches | |
| Highest position | 2 (1946) |
| Grand Slam Tournaments | |
| Wimbledon | victory (1949) |
| USA | victory (1942) |
| Doubles | |
| V / p matches | |
| Grand Slam Tournaments | |
| Wimbledon | final (1949) |
| USA | victory (1940, 1941, 1947) |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Grand Slam Tournament Finals in a Career
- 2.1 Single discharge (2-1)
- 2.2 Male Doubles (2-3)
- 2.3 Mixed doubles (1-0)
- 3 Davis Cup Finals in a career
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
- 6 References
Biography
Born in New Jersey , Ted Schroeder grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from Stanford University in California, where he studied economics. In 1939 he became the champion of the USA among young men [6] .
In 1941 and 1942, Schroeder, paired with another Californian, his one-year-old Jack Cramer , became the U.S. men's doubles champion. Their victory in 1940, when both were only 19 years old, made them the youngest couple to ever win a US championship. In 1942, Schroeder added to these titles the title of US champion in singles, having outplayed in the finals in five sets of Frank Parker [7] . In the fall of the same year, he became the US champion among students in singles and doubles - the second time in history when the same player was the US champion at the same time among adults and among students [8] .
After victories in 1942, Schroeder went to military service, which he spent in the Navy - first on destroyers, and then in naval aviation [6] . After returning from service, he combined his career in business with the continuation of his performances in tennis competitions, in 1947 for the third time having won the title of US champion in male pairs. It was only in 1949 that Schroeder made his first appearance at yet another Grand Slam tournament - the Wimbledon tournament . With the help of his long-time partner Kramer, who has turned into a professional and now playing the role of his coach [6] , he reached the finals of the tournament in men's pairs, where he and Gardnar Malloy lost to Parker and Pancho Gonzalez . In singles, Schroeder won four five-set matches for the tournament, including in the quarter-finals against Frank Sedgman (where he played two match-balls), the semi-finals against Eric Sturgess [9] and the final against Yaroslav Drobny , earning the nickname βHappy Tedβ; in the entire history of the Wimbledon tournament, only one more player - Boris Becker in 1985 - became the champion, losing eight sets along the way [10] . This visit to the Wimbledon tournament was the only one in Schroederβs career: he later explained this by the fact that he needed to focus on his career in business. In the fall of the same year, he lost the second single of the career championship of the US championship in singles Pancho Gonzalez, who managed to win, losing two sets during the game [7] .
From 1946 to 1949, Schroeder in the US team won the Davis Cup four times in a row, each time winning the Aussies in the final match. Only in 1950, the Americans lost the trophy to rivals from Australia. A year later, in the final in Sydney, he managed to even the score in the match, winning Mervyn Rose in the fourth game, but in the end the Americans lost 3: 2, after which Schroeder ended his playing career. From 1946 to 1949, he ranked second in the ranking of the strongest tennis players in the world four times in a row, published at the end of the season by the Daily Telegraph newspaper , and was in the top ten best six times in a row since 1946 [8] . From 1940 to 1951, he was also nine times among the ten strongest tennis players in the world, including on the first line in 1942 [7] .
In the last years of his playing career, Schroeder repeatedly rejected Jack Kramer's offers to join his professional tennis tour, remaining faithful to amateur tennis and his career in business. According to Schroeder, tennis always caused him too many feelings to treat him as a profession. After speaking, he became vice president of the California-based Cold Hold Pacific Sales Company. Ted Schroeder was elected to the National (later International) Tennis Hall of Fame in 1966 [7] . He died of cancer in La Jolla (California) in 2006, leaving behind three sons [6] .
Grand Slam Tournament Finals Career
Singles (2-1)
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| Result | Year | Tournament | Coating | Opponent in the final | Final Score |
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| Victory | 1942 | US Championship | Grass | Frank Parker | 8-6, 7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2 |
| Victory | 1949 | Wimbledon Tournament | Grass | Yaroslav Fractional | 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 |
| Defeat | 1949 | US Championship | Grass | Pancho Gonzalez | 18-16, 6-2, 1-6, 2-6, 4-6 |
Men's Doubles (2-3)
| Result | Year | Tournament | Coating | Partner | Opponents in the finals | Final Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victory | 1940 | US Championship | Grass | Jack Cramer | Gardnar Malloy Henry Prussoff | 6-4, 8-6, 9-7 |
| Victory | 1941 | U.S. Championship (2) | Grass | Jack Cramer | Gardnar Malloy Wayne Sabin | 9-7, 6-4, 6-2 |
| Defeat | 1942 | US Championship | Grass | Sydney Wood | Gardnar Malloy Bill Talbert | 5-7, 7-9, 1-6 |
| Victory | 1947 | US Championship (3) | Grass | Jack Cramer | Bill Sidwell Bill Talbert | 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 |
| Defeat | 1948 | U.S. Championship (2) | Grass | Frank Parker | Gardnar Malloy Bill Talbert | 6-1, 7-9, 3-6, 6-3, 7-9 |
| Defeat | 1949 | Wimbledon Tournament | Grass | Gardnar Malloy | Pancho Gonzalez Frank Parker | 4-6, 4-6, 2-6 |
Mixed Doubles (1-0)
| Result | Year | Tournament | Coating | Partner | Opponents in the finals | Final Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victory | 1942 | US Championship | Grass | Louise Braff | Patricia Cunning-Todd Alejo Russell | 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 |
Davis Cup Finals in a Career
| Result | Year | Location | Team | Opponents in the finals | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victory | 1946 | Melbourne Australia | USA J. Kramer , G. Malloy , T. Schroeder | Australia J. Bromwich , A. Quist , D. Payles | 5: 0 |
| Victory | 1947 | New York , USA | USA J. Cramer , T. Schroeder | Australia J. Bromwich , C. Long , D. Payles | 4: 1 |
| Victory | 1948 | New York, USA | USA J. Kramer , G. Malloy , B. Talbert , T. Schroeder | Australia A. Quist , C. Long , B. Sidwell | 5: 0 |
| Victory | 1949 | New York, USA | USA R. Gonzalez , G. Malloy , B. Talbert , T. Schroeder | Australia J. Bromwich , F. Sedgman , B. Sidwell | 4: 1 |
| Defeat | 1950 | New York, USA | USA T. Brown , G. Malloy , T. Schroeder | Australia J. Bromwich , C. McGregor , F. Sedgman | 1-4 |
| Defeat | 1950 | Sydney Australia | USA V. Seiksas , T. Trabert , T. Schroeder | Australia C. McGregor , M. Rose , F. Sedgman | 2-3 |
Notes
- β 1 2 Tingay L. 100 years of Wimbledon - London Borough of Enfield : Guinness Superlatives , 1977 .-- P. 205.
- β 1 2 Find a Grave - 1995. - ed. size: 165000000
- β Collins B. The Bud Collins History of Tennis : An Authoritative Encyclopedia and Record Book - 2 - New York City : New Chapter Press , 2010 .-- P. 641. - ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0
- β http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/sports/tennis/27schroeder.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
- β 1 2 ATP site
- β 1 2 3 4 Richard Evans. Obituary: Ted Schroeder . The Guardian . Date of treatment August 14, 2016. Archived September 23, 2014.
- β 1 2 3 4 Ted Schroeder . International Tennis Hall of Fame. Date of treatment August 12, 2016.
- β 1 2 Collins & Hollander, 1997 , p. 495.
- β Collins & Hollander, 1997 , p. 496.
- β Alan Little. 2009 Wimbledon Compendium. - Wimbledon, London: The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, 2009 .-- P. 407. - ISBN 978-1-899039-31-9 .
Literature
- Ted Schroeder // Bud Collins' Tennis Encyclopedia / Bud Collins & Zander Hollander (Eds.). - Visible Ink Press, 1997 .-- P. 495-496. - ISBN 1-57859-007-8 .
Links
- Ted Schroeder . International Tennis Hall of Fame. Date of treatment August 12, 2016.
- Singles Results in Tennis Archives Database
- Profile on the Davis Cup website
- Grand Slam Tournament Finals in the Grand Slam online directory