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Great Britain · born Sutton Coldfield, 1902 · died 1997 · Wimbledon doubles champion 1936 with Raymond Tuckey
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1936
Wimbledon doubles title with Raymond Tuckey
3
Wimbledon doubles finals: 1932, 1936 and 1937
1934
Australian doubles title with Fred Perry
114
Matches at Wimbledon, 1926 to 1939
1933 to 1936
Davis Cup winning years as a member of the British team
George Patrick Hughes was born in Sutton Coldfield on 21 December 1902 and spent some of his schooldays in Belfast. He played for Britain in the Davis Cup from 1929 to 1936 and was a member of the team that held the Cup from 1933 to 1936, the years of Fred Perry and Bunny Austin.
He was above all a doubles player. With Perry he reached the Wimbledon final in 1932 and won the French title in 1933 and the Australian title in 1934. With Raymond Tuckey he won Wimbledon in 1936 and was runner-up in 1937 to Don Budge and Gene Mako. His best singles result came on clay, the Italian Championships in 1931; he was runner-up in 1932. On grass he won the South of England singles at Eastbourne in 1936.
After his playing days he worked for Dunlop in London, as tennis manager and a director of Dunlop Sports, and edited the Dunlop Lawn Tennis Annual and Almanack from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. He died at Chertsey on 8 May 1997, aged 94.
| Wimbledon doubles 1932 | Final with Fred Perry, seeded third, lost to Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon 6-0, 4-6, 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 |
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| Wimbledon doubles 1936 | Seeded fourth with Raymond Tuckey, beat the unseeded Charles Hare and Frank Wilde in the final 6-4, 3-6, 7-9, 6-1, 6-4 |
| Wimbledon doubles 1937 | Top seeds with Tuckey, lost the final to Don Budge and Gene Mako 6-0, 6-4, 6-8, 6-1 |
| South of England 1936 | Won the singles at Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, beating Charles Hare 2-6, 9-7, 6-1 |
| Wimbledon record | 114 matches in the Championships between 1926 and 1939: 22-12 in singles, 40-13 in doubles and 16-11 in mixed |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1936 | Men's doubles | with Raymond Tuckey |
| Australian Championships | ||
| 1934 | Men's doubles | with Fred Perry |
| Eastbourne | ||
| 1936 | Men's singles South of England Championships | |
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Belfast
He lived in Belfast for a few years as a schoolboy and kept "a particular affinity with Ireland and Irish players". He won the Irish doubles in 1928 and 1930, became an honorary life member of Fitzwilliam, and helped Irish players at Wimbledon from 1946 to 1975.
Source: The Irish Times obituary, 12 June 1997Milan, 1931
Hughes won the Italian Championships singles in 1931, when the tournament was played in Milan, and was runner-up the next year. No other British man reached the final until Andy Murray won the title in 2016.
Source: Pat Hughes, WikipediaDunlop, London
After his playing career he worked for Dunlop Sports in London as tennis manager and a director, and was known to generations of tournament players. He also edited the Dunlop Lawn Tennis Annual and Almanack.
Source: The Irish Times obituary, 12 June 1997Free membership: player news, the grass court Atlas, the rankings and the grass season calendar.
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