Laurence Doherty
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| Full name | Hugh Laurence Doherty | |||||||||||||||
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| Country (sports) |
 United Kingdom
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| Born |
8 October 1875 Wimbledon, England |
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| Died | 21 August 1919 (aged 43) Broadstairs, England |
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| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1906 | |||||||||||||||
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) | |||||||||||||||
| Int. Tennis HoF | 1980 (member page) | |||||||||||||||
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| Career record | 386–79 | |||||||||||||||
| Career titles | 66 | |||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (1898, Karoly Mazak) | |||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam Singles results | ||||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | W (1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906) | |||||||||||||||
| US Open | W (1903) | |||||||||||||||
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| Wimbledon | W (1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905) | |||||||||||||||
| US Open | W (1902, 1903) | |||||||||||||||
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| Davis Cup | W (1903, 1904, 1905, 1906) | |||||||||||||||
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Hugh Laurence "Laurie" Doherty (8 October 1875 – 21 August 1919) was a British tennis player and the younger brother of tennis player Reginald Doherty. He was a six-time slam champion and a double Olympic Gold medalist at the 1900 Summer Olympics in singles and doubles (also winning a Bronze in mixed doubles). In 1903 he became the first non-American player to win the U.S. National Championships.
Doherty was born on 8 October 1875 at Beulah Villa in Wimbledon, London, the youngest son of William Doherty, a printer, and his wife, Catherine Ann Davis. Doherty was the shorter of the two brothers, at 1.78m, who played championship tennis in their native England and at Wimbledon at the turn of the century.
Like his brother he was educated at Westminster School from 1890 to 1894 followed by Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he played for and became President of the Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club. He gained his blues in 1896, 1897, and 1898. In 1892 Doherty won the Renshaw cup, the All-England Championships singles title for boys under 16 which was held in Scarborough.
In addition to lawn tennis he also played real tennis and golf.
The brothers were reportedly urged to play tennis by their father, for health reasons. Known as "Little Do", Doherty won Wimbledon five consecutive times in singles and eight times in doubles with his brother. In 1903, he became the first tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament outside of his native country by beating defending champion William Larned in three straight sets in the final of the US Championships in Newport. He won the singles title at the British Covered Court Championships, played at the Queen's Club in London, six consecutive times between 1901 and 1906. Additionally he won the singles title at The South of France Championships in Nice seven times in a row (1900–1906).
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