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Golfer, cricketer, tennis player, civil servant Bertrand Milbourne Clark (29 April 1894 – 30 March 1958) was an all-round , amateur Jamaican sportsman, who excelled in golf, cricket and tennis, and was the first black person to compete at Wimbledon , in 1924.
Compton Russell is a Jamaican former professional tennis player. [1] Russell, a Wimbledon junior quarter-finalist, played collegiate tennis for the UCLA Bruins. He was a Davis Cup representative for the combined Caribbean team, appearing in 1971, 1972 and 1981. [2] From a tennis family, Russell is a cousin of tennis player Richard Russell. [3]
This category lists tennis players with Wikipedia articles who have notably represented Jamaica. Note that articles are sub-categorized by whether a player has done so in male or female competition, and also by particular notable competitions.
Russell was the only Jamaican to progress past the first round at all four grand slam tournaments. At the 1966 Australian Championships he won his first round match over Richie Chopra, 6–0, 6–0, 6–0.
With the advent of the Open era in tennis, in 1968 he returned to play at Wimbledon in the Veteran's doubles. In 1973, at the age of 58, he and former champion Frank Sedgman teamed up to win the Veteran's Doubles Championship at Wimbledon before an appreciative crowd. Budge was the resident tennis pro at the Montego Bay Racquet Club in Jamaica ...
His junior tennis career went well enough to draw the attention of Kim Michael Wittenberg, an American who ran a tennis academy near Hanover. Wittenberg regularly gave Brown lessons, and according to his pupil, he "taught me to play tennis." [7] [9] At 11 years old, in 1996, the family returned to Jamaica, settling in Montego Bay. The move was ...
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