Cecil Stuart

Cecil Stuart
Full name Cecil Stuart
Country (sports)  Australia
Born (1900-04-00)April 1900[1]
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died 23 November 1954(1954-11-23) (aged 54) [2] [3]
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Turned pro 1920 (amateur tour)
Retired 1942
Singles
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open QF (1924)

Cecil Stuart (1900–1954) was an Australian tennis player. In the late 1930s he also played squash.[4] Stuart was originally from South Australia but later moved to Victoria. He made his debut in the Australasian championships in 1920 and lost in round one to Horace Rice.[5] At the Australasian championships in 1924, Stuart beat Ronald Thomas in the third round. The concluding stages of the match were "tame and spiritless, both contestants hitting softly and cautiously", according to The Advertiser.[6] Stuart lost in the quarter finals to James Anderson.[7] Stuart then turned professional, but was later reinstated as an amateur.[8] Stuart won the men's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles events at the Victorian Country week tournament at Kooyong in 1940, just before turning 40 years of age.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Weston, Mervyn (13 March 1940). "Tennis Three Titles to Stuart". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 21. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Noted golfer dies". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 24 November 1954. p. 14. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Search results for Cecil Stuart". www.familysearch.org.
  4. ↑ "15 Nov 1937 - Squash final to Stuart". Trove.
  5. ↑ "Australasian Open 1920". www.tennis.co.nf.
  6. ↑ "23 Jan 1924 - Lawn Tennis". Trove.
  7. ↑ "Australian Open 1924". www.tennis.co.nf.
  8. ↑ "15 Mar 1941 - How Veterans Are Helping Country Tennis". Trove.


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