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Don Budge
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American tennis player (1915-2000)
OverviewAI-generated
Don Budge (1915–2000) was an American tennis player whose professional career spanned from 1938 to 1955. Standing 185 centimeters tall and weighing 73 kilograms, he competed as a singles player with a record of 58–5. His work period concluded in 1955, and he is associated with the team _Retired Tennis.
Budge authored several works, including *Budge on tennis*, *Don Budge*, and *Don Budge: a tennis memoir*. Open Library lists three works under his name, while Crossref records five. He was referenced by 1,783 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1915
- Died
- 2000
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Budge on tennis
- Don Budge
- Don Budge: a tennis memoir
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,999x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,803x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,265x
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,925x
- Preliminary reference Earth model
· 1981 · cited 8,454x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Full name
- John Donald Budge
- Country sports
- United States
- Born
- ( 1915-06-13 ) June 13, 1915, Oakland , California , U.S.
- Died
- January 26, 2000 (2000-01-26) (aged 84), Scranton , Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Height
- 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
- Turned pro
- 1938 (amateur tour from 1932)
- Plays
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Int tennis hof
- 1964 ( member page )
- Career record
- 649-297 (68.6%)
- Highest ranking
- No. 1 (1937, A. Wallis Myers )
- Australian open
- W ( 1938 )
- French open
- W ( 1938 )
- Wimbledon
- W ( 1937 , 1938 )
- Us open
- W ( 1937 , 1938 )
- Us pro
- W ( 1940 , 1942 )
- Wembley pro
- W ( 1939 )
- French pro
- W ( 1939 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Team
- _Retired Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
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Encyclopedic overview
John Donald Budge (June 13, 1915 – January 26, 2000) was an American tennis player. He is most famous as the first tennis player—male or female—to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in one year and complete the Grand Slam. Budge was the second man to complete the career Grand Slam, after Fred Perry. He won ten majors, of which six were Grand Slam events (consecutively, a men's record) and four Pro Slams, the latter achieved on three different surfaces. Budge is considered to have had one of the best backhands in the history of tennis, with most observers rating it better than that of later player Ken Rosewall.
Budge is also the only man to have achieved the Triple Crown (winning singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles at the same tournament) on three separate occasions (Wimbledon in 1937 and 1938, and the US Championships in 1938), and the only man to have achieved it twice in one year. Budge was the world Number 1 amateur in 1937 and 1938 and world Number 1 professional in 1939, 1940 and 1942.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Don Budge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.