Budge, John Donald

Budge, John Donald
▪ 2001
“Don” 
      American tennis player (b. June 13, 1915, Oakland, Calif.—d. Jan. 26, 2000, Scranton, Pa.), won the four major tennis tournaments—Wimbledon and the championships of Australia, France, and the United States—in 1938 to become the sport's first Grand Slam winner. More interested in football and baseball than tennis as a boy, he was eventually persuaded by his brother, Lloyd, to pursue tennis seriously. He won the first tournament he entered, capturing the California state boys' singles title in 1930. Tall and thin and possessed of exceptional stamina, he was a graceful athlete, though one who employed an aggressive style of play, attacking opponents with his backhand—which hitherto had been considered mainly a defensive stroke—as well as his powerful serve. He represented the U.S. in Davis Cup competition four times (1935–38), winning 25 of 29 matches and leading the U.S. team to the Davis Cup title in 1937 with a memorable five-set come-from-behind victory over German tennis ace Gottfried von Cramm. At Wimbledon in 1937 and again in 1938, he won the singles, the men's doubles (with Gene Mako), and the mixed doubles (with Alice Marbles). He also won four U.S. Open titles: two singles (1937–38) and two men's doubles (1936 and 1938, with Mako). The feat he achieved in 1938—sweeping all four major tennis titles in a single year—was not reproduced until 1962, when Rod Laver recorded the first of his two Grand Slams. Budge turned professional in 1939, the same year his influential book, Budge on Tennis, was published. His career was interrupted in 1942 when he entered the U.S. Army Air Corps, but he returned to competition in 1946. He retired from playing in 1954 and for the next three decades operated a tennis camp in Maryland. He was inducted into the National Lawn Tennis Association Hall of Fame in 1964 and was later selected by Tennis magazine as one of the 20 greatest players of the 20th century.

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