Adrian Quist: Difference between revisions
imported>Hayford Peirce (created article; will fill out a box for him in the Famous players catalog within a day or so) |
imported>John Leach (category) |
||
Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
Quist was inducted into the [[International Tennis Hall of Fame]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island]], in 1984. | Quist was inducted into the [[International Tennis Hall of Fame]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island]], in 1984. | ||
==Notes== | |||
{{Reflist}} | |||
{{DEFAULTSORT:Quist, Adrian}} | |||
[[Category:Tennis biographies]] |
Revision as of 03:28, 11 September 2019
![](http://s9.addthis.com/button1-share.gif)
Adrian Karl Quist (August 4, 1913, Medindie, South Australia–November 17, 1991, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) was an outstanding Australian tennis player of the 1930s and '40s. Although he was a three-time Australian Championships men's singles champion over a 12-year period, he is primarily remembered today as a great doubles player. He and John Bromwich won the Australian doubles title eight years in a row. Besides winning 14 doubles titles in Grand Slam tournaments, Quist had an outstanding record of 19 wins against only 3 losses in nine years of competing on Australian Davis Cup teams.
In his 1979 autobiography tennis great Jack Kramer writes that in doubles "Quist played the backhand court. He had a dink backhand that was better for doubles than singles, and he had a classical forehand drive with a natural sink. And he was fine at the net, volley and forehand."
Quist was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1984.