Dick Savitt Tennis player
Richard "Dick" Savitt (born March 4, 1927) is a 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 metres) and 185-pound (84 kg) right-handed American male former tennis player. Savitt was ranked World No. 2 in 1951. That year, at the age of 24, he won both the Wimbledon Singles Championship and the Australian Singles title. He retired the following year. Savitt is one of three American men who have won both the Australian and British Championships in one year, following Don Budge (1938) and preceding Jimmy Connors (1974).
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plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
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Topical connections
Dick Savitt on Wikipedia
External resources
- http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m-8pAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ryMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3346,2423655&dq=frank-shields+davis-cup+savitt&hl=en
- http://www.ajhs.org/scholarship/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=266
- http://www.hofmag.com/content/category/17/135/215
- http://www.jewishsports.net/biopages/RichardDickSavitt.htm
- http://www.jewishsports.org/jewishsports/detail.asp?id=61
- http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=tennis&ID=43
- https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Savitt.html