Cyril Eames
Full nameCyril Gladstone Eames
Country (sports) Great Britain
Born(1890-10-20)20 October 1890
Died1 August 1974(1974-08-01) (aged 83)
PlaysRight-handed
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
French Open2R (1925)
Wimbledon2R (1925, 1926, 1927, 1928)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
French OpenSF (1925)
WimbledonQF (1926, 1927, 1928)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
French Open2R (1925)
WimbledonQF (1925)

Cyril Gladstone Eames (20 October 1890 – 1 August 1974) was a British tennis player.

Eames was most active in the 1920s and made the Wimbledon singles second round four times.[1]

It was his doubles partnership with Gordon Crole-Rees that he was most known for. The pair won the British Covered Court Championships, twice made the Wimbledon doubles quarter-finals and were doubles semi-finalists at the 1925 French Championships, where they lost in five sets to Jean Borotra and René Lacoste.[2] They featured together in the 1928 and 1929 International Lawn Tennis Challenge (Davis Cup) campaigns, winning four of their five doubles rubbers.[3] In their only loss, to Italy in the 1928 Europe Zone semi-final, they had held match points[4]

In 1931 he announced his intention to retire from the tour.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Eame's Tennis Trophies". Civil and Military Gazette. 10 November 1929.
  2. ↑ "MLLE. Lenglen's Lawn Tennis Triumph". Birmingham Post. 8 June 1925.
  3. ↑ "The Draw – Player's Chances". The Gentlewoman. 26 June 1926.
  4. ↑ "Britain Beaten". Daily News (London). 22 June 1928.
  5. ↑ "Cyril Eames, Noted English Net Star, Plans to Retire". The Province. 5 April 1931.
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