Country (sports) | United States |
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Born | Washington D.C., U.S. | September 26, 1922
Died | October 27, 2011 Castro Valley, California, U.S. | (aged 89)
Turned pro | 1939 (amateur tour) |
Retired | 1969 |
Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
Singles | |
Career record | 314–96 |
Career titles | 34 |
Highest ranking | No. 7 (1946, Pierre Gillou)[1] |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | SF (1947) |
French Open | SF (1946, 1947) |
Wimbledon | F (1947) |
US Open | F (1946) |
Doubles | |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | SF (1947) |
French Open | F (1947) |
Wimbledon | W (1946) |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
French Open | F (1946) |
Wimbledon | W (1946) |
US Open | W (1948) |
Thomas P. Brown Jr. (September 26, 1922 – October 27, 2011) was one of the top amateur tennis players in the world in the 1940s and a consistent winner in veterans' and seniors' competitions. He was the son of Thomas P. Brown, a newspaper correspondent, later public relations director for a railroad, and Hilda Jane Fisher, who became a schoolteacher when Tom was a boy. Though born in Washington, D.C., Tom was considered a San Franciscan all his life, having been brought west by his parents (both Californians) at the age of two.