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Great Britain · born Godalming, 1910 · died 2005 · Wimbledon doubles champion 1936 with Pat Hughes and twice a Davis Cup winner
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1936
Wimbledon doubles title with Pat Hughes
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Wimbledon doubles finals, 1936 and 1937
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Davis Cup wins with Britain, 1935 and 1936
1931
First of two Wimbledon mixed doubles with his mother, Agnes
Charles Raymond Davys Tuckey was born in Godalming, Surrey, on 15 June 1910, the son of Charles Orpen Tuckey and Agnes Tuckey, who with Hope Crisp had won the first Wimbledon mixed doubles in 1913. He won doubles medals at the Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club from 1930 to 1932, and in 1931 and 1932 he partnered his mother in the Wimbledon mixed doubles. In 1934 he reached the final of the All England Plate.
He was picked for Britain's Davis Cup doubles. In the 1935 Challenge Round at Wimbledon he and Pat Hughes beat Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn as Britain beat the United States 5-0, and in 1936 Britain kept the cup against Australia, although Hughes and Tuckey lost their doubles to Jack Crawford and Adrian Quist. Between those ties Hughes and Tuckey won the 1936 Wimbledon doubles in five sets. They reached the final again in 1937 as top seeds and lost to Don Budge and Gene Mako, and Britain lost the 1937 Davis Cup to the United States.
He also won the British Hard Court Championships mixed doubles in 1935 and men's doubles with Hughes in 1936, and a string of army tennis trophies in the 1930s. He was a guest of the All England Club at the 75th Championships lunch in 1961 and one of the Chair's guests in 1986, and died in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on 15 October 2005.
| Wimbledon 1936 final | Fourth seeds with Pat Hughes, beat Charles Hare and Frank Wilde 6-4, 3-6, 7-9, 6-1, 6-4 |
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| Wimbledon 1937 final | Top seeds with Hughes, lost to Don Budge and Gene Mako 6-0, 6-4, 6-8, 6-1 |
| Davis Cup Challenge Rounds at Wimbledon | 1935 doubles with Hughes: beat Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn 6-2, 1-6, 6-8, 6-3, 6-3. 1936: lost to Jack Crawford and Adrian Quist 6-4, 2-6, 7-5, 10-8 |
| All England Plate 1934 | Lost the final to H. W. Artens 5-7, 7-5, 6-1 |
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| 1936 | Men's doubles | with Pat Hughes |
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Wimbledon, 1931 and 1932
In 1931 and 1932 he played the mixed doubles with his mother, Agnes, then in her fifties. The Wimbledon record still lists them as the only mother and son pair to have competed in the event.
Source: Wimbledon Compendium 2025 (AELTC); Antique Collecting, 2016Wimbledon, July 1935
Reports of the 1935 Challenge Round doubles credited the British win over Allison and Van Ryn chiefly to Tuckey, "who won many service points. He smashed devastatingly, and exhibited fine anticipation." Seven thousand watched, and the crowd cheered wildly.
Source: Ashburton Guardian, 30 July 1935, Papers PastWimbledon, July 1936
In the 1936 Challenge Round doubles, Britain led the fourth set 5-2 before Crawford and Quist came back. Tuckey was foot-faulted in the 17th game, which Britain lost, and Quist then smashed a winner to take the match 10-8.
Source: Wairarapa Age, 29 July 1936, Papers Past1930s
Among the family's trophies sold in 2016 were 11 silver army tennis trophies from the 1930s, all won by C. R. D. Tuckey, and an alabaster desk stand the Lawn Tennis Association gave him for the 1935 Davis Cup defence.
Source: Antique Collecting, 2016Godalming
His sister Kay also played for Britain: she reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals in 1951 and was in the Wightman Cup team from 1949 to 1951.
Source: Antique Collecting, 2016Wimbledon, 1986
When the chair of the All England Club began inviting Last 8 Club members as special guests in 1986, the first group included both G. P. Hughes and C. R. D. Tuckey, along with Fred Perry.
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