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Frank Riseley

Frank Riseley
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Full name Frank Lorymer Riseley
Country (sports)  United Kingdom
Born (1877-07-06)6 July 1877
Clifton, Bristol, UK
Died 6 February 1959(1959-02-06) (aged 81)
Torquay, UK
Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Singles
Highest ranking No. 3 (1906, Karoly Mazak)
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon F (1903Ch, 1904Ch, 1906Ch)
Other tournaments
Doubles
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon W (1902, 1906)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Wimbledon 2R (1919)
Team competitions
Davis Cup W (1904)

Frank Lorymer Riseley (6 July 1877 – 6 February 1959) was a British tennis player.

Riseley won the Wimbledon Gentlemen's Doubles title twice, in 1902 and 1906, partnering with Sydney Smith. He lost the singles finals three times against Laurence Doherty in 1903, 1904 and 1906.

He played for the Great Britain Davis Cup team in 1904 against Belgium and won both his singles matches. His second and last Davis Cup appearance came 18 years later, in 1922, when he won the doubles match partnering with Algernon Kingscote.

Riseley won the 1902 edition of the Scottish Championships, held in Moffat, and the Irish Championships in 1906. In June 1906 he won the singles event at the short-lived Championships of Europe tournament, held in Leicester that year. In the final he was leading the Irishman George Ball-Greene, 4–6, 6–1, 5–1 when the latter retired.


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