Adrian Quist

Adrian Karl Quist (4 August 1913 in Medindie, South Australia – 17 November 1991 in Sydney, NSW) was an Australian male tennis player. The tennis legend grew up in Adelaide and once played Harry Hopman, however lost, only because he gave Hopman a head start. He was a three-time Australian Championships men's singles champion but is primarily remembered today as a great doubles player. He and John Bromwich won the Australian doubles title 8 years in a row and he was also one of the winners of a "Career Doubles Slam".In his 1979 autobiography tennis great Jack Kramer writes that in doubles "Quist played the backhand court. He had a dink backhand that was better for doubles than singles, and he had a classical forehand drive with a natural sink. And he was fine at the net, volley and forehand."

Quist was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1984.

'Adrian Quist' is Australian rhyming slang for 'pissed', meaning 'drunk'.

Grand Slam record

*Australian Championships
**Singles champion (3): 1936, 1940, 1948
**Singles finalist (1): 1939
**Doubles champion (8): 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950
**Doubles finalist (2): 1934, 1951

*French Championships
**Doubles champion (1): 1935
**Doubles finalist (1): 1933
**Mixed finalist (1): 1934

*Wimbledon
**Doubles champion (2): 1935, 1950

*U.S. Championships
**Doubles champion (1): 1939
**Doubles finalist (1): 1938

Grand Slam singles finals

Wins (3)

External links

* [http://www.tennisfame.org/enshrinees/adrian_quist.html International Tennis Hall of Fame (Class of 1984)]

Persondata
NAME = Quist, Adrian Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Australian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH = 4 August 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH = Medindie, South Australia
DATE OF DEATH = 17 November 1991
PLACE OF DEATH = Sydney, NSW