- Howard Kinsey
Howard Kinsey (born
December 3 ,1899 inSt. Louis, Missouri - diedJuly 26 1966 inSan Francisco, California ) was an Americantennis player in the 1920s who won a number of championships; he was originally fromCalifornia . [cite web
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His most significant championships were the 1926 French National Men's Doubles Championship, where he and
Vincent Richards beat theHenri Cochet andJacques Brugnon (a pairing who went on to win three other French National doubles titles) in the final, and the 1924 U.S. National Men's Doubles Championship (with his brother, Robert Kinsey;Bill Tilden wrote of the pair that he had "seldom seen a team work together more smoothly than the Kinseys.") In 1926 he reached the Wimbledon final losing to Jean Borotra,Later in 1926, he went on to be one of the first players signed up by the promoter Charles C. Pyle to play in his professional tennis league; after a split with Pyle, he joined Vincent Richards in forming an association of professional tennis players.
In 1936 he and
Helen Wills Moody volleyed a tennis ball back and forth 2,001 times without ever missing; the feat took them 1 hour and 18 minutes. They only broke off the exchange so that Kinsey could go teach a lesson that he had scheduled.Kinsey is a member of the
USTA Northern California Hall of Fame.See also
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Professional Tennis Championships References
External links
* [http://www.itftennis.com/mens/players/player.asp?player=10017988 ITF Profile]
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