Pat Hughes (tennis)

Pat Hughes

Full name	George Patrick Hughes
Country (sports)	United Kingdom
Born	(1902-12-21)21 December 1902 Sutton Coldfield, England
Died	8 May 1997(1997-05-08) (aged 94) Walton-on-Thames, England
Turned pro	1926 (amateur tour)
Retired	1941
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Singles
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	QF (1934)
French Open	SF (1931)
Wimbledon	QF (1931, 1933)
US Open	2R (1931)
Doubles
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	W (1934)
French Open	W (1933)
Wimbledon	W (1936)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Wimbledon	QF (1926, 1933)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	W (1933, 1934, 1935, 1936)

George Patrick Hughes (21 December 1902 – 8 May 1997) was an English tennis player.

Hughes and Fred Perry won the doubles at the French Championships in 1933 and at the Australian Championships in 1934. Hughes later teamed up with Raymond Tuckey. They won the doubles in Wimbledon in 1936. Hughes reached the semi finals at Roland Garros in 1931, where he beat Vernon Kirby and George Lott before losing to Christian Boussus.^[1] Between 1929 and 1936 Hughes was a member of the British Davis Cup team.

Hughes had been the only British man to reach the singles final at the Italian championships, capturing the title in 1931 and runner-up the following year, until Andy Murray won the tournament in 2016. Hughes captured the doubles title in both those years too, when the tournament, in its infancy, was played in Milan.

He was the editor of the Dunlop Lawn Tennis Annual and Almanack from the late 1940s to the late 1950s.

Grand Slam finals

Pat Hughes left and Fred Perry at White City in the 1934-1935 summer before the January 1935 Melbourne Centenary Australian Championships at Kooyong

Doubles (3 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1932	Wimbledon	Grass	Fred Perry	Jean Borotra Jacques Brugnon	0–6, 6–4, 6–3, 5–7, 5–7
Winner	1933	French Championships	Clay	Fred Perry	Adrian Quist Viv McGrath	6–2, 6–4, 2–6, 7–5
Winner	1934	Australian Championships	Grass	Fred Perry	Adrian Quist Don Turnbull	6–8, 6–3, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Runner-up	1935	Australian Championships	Grass	Fred Perry	Jack Crawford Vivian McGrath	4–6, 6–8, 2–6
Runner-up	1936	French Championships	Clay	Charles Tuckey	Jean Borotra Marcel Bernard	2–6, 6–3, 7–9, 1–6
Winner	1936	Wimbledon	Grass	Charles Tuckey	Charles Hare Frank Wilde	6–4, 3–6, 7–9, 6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	1937	Wimbledon	Grass	Charles Tuckey	Don Budge Gene Mako	0–6, 4–6, 8–6, 1–6

References

External links

• Pat Hughes at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Pat Hughes at the International Tennis Federation
• Pat Hughes at the Davis Cup
• National Portrait Gallery – Portrait of George Hughes