Fred Perry
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| Full name | Frederick John Perry |
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| Country (sports) |
 Great Britain
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| Born |
18 May 1909 Portwood, , England |
| Died | 2 February 1995 (aged 85) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Turned pro | 1936 (amateur tour from 1929) |
| Retired | 1956 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 1975 (member page) |
| Singles | |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (1934, A. Wallis Myers) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | W (1934) |
| French Open | W (1935) |
| Wimbledon | W (1934, 1935, 1936) |
| US Open | W (1933, 1934, 1936) |
| Professional majors | |
| US Pro | W (1938, 1941) |
| Wembley Pro | QF (1951, 1952) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | W (1934) |
| French Open | W (1933) |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| French Open | W (1932) |
| Wimbledon | W (1935, 1936) |
| US Open | W (1932) |
| Team competitions | |
| Davis Cup | W (1933, 1934, 1935, 1936) |
| Fred Perry | |
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| Nationality |
 England
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Frederick John "Fred" Perry (18 May 1909 – 2 February 1995) was an English tennis and table tennis player and former World No. 1 who won 10 Majors including eight Grand Slams and two Pro Slams single titles, as well as six Major doubles titles. Perry won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships from 1934 to 1936 and was World Amateur number one tennis player during those three years. Prior to Andy Murray in 2013, Perry was the last British player to win the men's Wimbledon championship, in 1936, and the last British player to win a men's singles Grand Slam title until Andy Murray won the 2012 US Open.
Perry was the first player to win a "Career Grand Slam", winning all four singles titles at the age of 26 which he completed at the 1935 French Open. He remains the only British player ever to achieve this. Although Perry began his tennis career aged 18, he was also a Table Tennis World Champion in 1929.
In 1933, Perry helped lead the Great Britain team to victory over France in the Davis Cup; the team's first success since 1912, followed by wins over the United States in 1934, 1935, and a fourth consecutive title with victory over Australia in 1936. But due to his disillusionment with the class-conscious nature of the Lawn Tennis Club of Great Britain, the working-class Perry turned professional at the end of the 1936 season and moved to the United States where he became a naturalised US citizen in 1938. In 1942, he was drafted into the US Air Force during the Second World War.
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