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J.L. Odea (born 1884) was a male doubles tennis player.
Odea was the men's doubles champion runner-up at the inaugural Australasian Championships in 1910 with Rodney Heath.
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Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, CBE was an American tennis player and founder of the Wightman Cup, an annual team competition for British and American women. She dominated American women's tennis before World War I, and won 45 U.S. titles during her life.
Rodney Wilfred Heath was an Australian tennis player.
Wang Hao is a retired Chinese table tennis player. He became the World Champion in Men's Singles in Yokohama, Japan in May 2009, defeating three-time World Champion Wang Liqin 4–0. His other notable accomplishments include being a three-time World Cup Champion in 2007, 2008 and 2010, a singles silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. In January 2010, he was replaced by Ma Long as the #1 rank on the official ITTF world rankings. He was previously ranked #1 on the official ITTF world rankings for 27 consecutive months, from October 2007 to December 2009. In April 2011, he was again the top ranked male player in the world. He is known to execute the Reverse Penhold Backhand (RPB) with exceptional skill.
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Horace "Horrie" Rice was an Australian tennis player.
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The 1911 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the tenth edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup, named after the American tennis player Dwight F. Davis. After no country decided to challenge Australasia in 1910, only the British Isles and the United States would challenge for the Cup, for the third straight edition. Also for the third straight edition, the Americans would beat the British to earn the right to play for the Cup, and for the third straight edition, the Aussies would beat the Americans for the title.
The 1905 Australasian Championships was a tennis tournament played on Grass courts in Melbourne, Australia at Warehouseman's Cricket Ground. The tournament took place from 21 November through 25 November 1905. It was the inaugural edition of the Australasian Championships and consisted of a men's singles and men's doubles competition. The men's singles event had a field of 17 players and was won by Australian Rodney Heath.
The 1919 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 23 June until 7 July. It was the 39th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1919. It was the first Wimbledon championship after a four-year hiatus due to World War I.
Rodney Heath defeated Horace Rice 6–4, 6–3, 6–2 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1910 Australasian Championships.
The 1910 Australasian Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on outdoor grass courts at the Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia. It was the 6th edition of the Australasian Championships, the first held in Adelaide and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year.
The 1914 Australasian Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on outdoor Grass courts at the Warehouseman's Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia from 23 November to 28 November. It was the 10th edition of the Australasian Championships, the third held in Melbourne, and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. The singles title was won by Australian Arthur O'Hara Wood.
Walter Abbott was an English professional footballer who scored 104 goals from 391 games in the Football League playing for Small Heath, Everton and Burnley. He was capped once for the England national team.
Bruno Fraga Soares is a professional tennis player from Brazil. His highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour is World No. 221, which he reached in March 2004. Primarily a doubles specialist, his career-high doubles ranking is World No. 2, which he achieved in October 2016. After a few efforts, including a final in the 2012 US Open and the semifinals of the 2008 and 2013 French Opens, Soares finally won his first Grand Slam title at the 2016 Australian Open, partnering Jamie Murray and then followed that up with a second men's doubles title at the 2016 US Open. He has also won three Grand Slam titles in Mixed Doubles, two at the US Open, in 2012 and 2014, and one at the Australian Open in 2016. He was the third Brazilian tennis player to achieve this, after Maria Bueno and Thomaz Koch.
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Albert Curtis was an Australian tennis player before World War I and medical practitioner in the area of Mental Health.
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Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding were the defending champions, but Wilding was killed during World War I. Brookes partnered with Gerald Patterson but they lost in the semifinals to eventual champions Pat O'Hara Wood and Ronald Thomas.