Edward Dewhurst
{{Short description|Australian-American tennis player}}
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|birth_date = 7 April 1870Pennsylvania, Federal Naturalization Records, 1795-1931
|birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales
|death_date = {{death date and age|1941|2|25|1870|4|7|df=y}}{{cite news|title=Former Net Champ Dies|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mvAxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=u-IFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3566%2C4795142|newspaper=Reading Eagle|date=26 February 1941}}
|death_place =Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|plays = Right-handed
|highestsinglesranking = No. 9 (1906 U.S. Ranking)
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Edward Bury Dewhurst (7 April 1870 – 25 February 1941) was an Australian male tennis player. He became a U.S. citizen after retirement.
Biography
Edward Bury Dewhurst was born in Sydney, Australia in 1870, the son of Arthur Dewhurst and Emma Owen.Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915 for Edward Bury Dewhurst At age 33, in 1903, he left Australia to study dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.
Dewhurst became the singles Intercollegiate Champion for the University of Pennsylvania in 1903 and 1905 as well as doubles champion in 1905. In 1904 he was runner up in the singles.{{cite web|title=NCAA Championships (1883–1956)|url=http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/history/championships/NCAA/1883-1956|publisher=Council of Ivy League Presidents|access-date=10 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030000134/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/history/championships/NCAA/1883-1956|archive-date=30 October 2013|url-status=dead}} In 1904 he won the men's doubles at the Niagara International Tennis Tournament together with H.J. Holt when their opponents defaulted the match at two sets all due to darkness.{{cite book|last=Ohnsorg|first=Roger W.|title=Robert Lindley Murray: The Reluctant U.S. Tennis Champion|date=February 2011 |publisher=Trafford on Demand Pub|location=Victoria, BC|isbn=978-1-4269-4514-4|page=340}}
He won the singles title at the 1905 U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships where he defeated the reigning champion of the previous two years, Wylie Grant in three straight sets 6–3, 8–6, 6–4. The tournament was played on board courts at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York.
In 1906, Dewhurst won the mixed doubles title at the U.S. National Championships together with Sarah Coffin. The previous year, 1905, he had reached the finals of this event, played at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, with Elisabeth Moore but lost to Augusta Schultz and Clarence Hobart in straight sets.{{cite book|last=Collins|first=Bud|title=The Bud Collins History of Tennis|year=2010|publisher=New Chapter Press|location=[New York]|isbn=978-0942257700|edition=2nd|page=481}}
Dewhurst retired from tennis in 1909 due to blood poisoning.{{cite news|title=Tennis Ranking Meets with Favor|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/01/03/104915716.pdf|access-date=10 June 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=3 January 1910}}
Dewhurst published a book titled The Science of Lawn Tennis in 1910.{{cite web|title=Edward Bury Dewhurst|url=http://tennishistory.com.au/2010/04/edward-bury-dewhurst/|publisher=tennishistory.com.au|access-date=10 June 2012}}
In 1911, he married Ethel Voorhies (née Grannan). He became a U.S. citizen in 1924.
He died in Philadelphia of heart disease in 1941, age 70.Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1964
Grand Slam finals
= Mixed doubles (1 title, 1 runner-up) =
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|style="background:#ffa07a;"|Runner-up | 1905
| Grass |{{flagicon|USA|1896}} Elisabeth Moore |{{flagicon|USA|1896}} Augusta Schultz |2–6, 4–6 |
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|style="background:#98fb98;"|Winner | 1906
| Grass |{{flagicon|USA}} Sarah Coffin |{{flagicon|USA}} Margaret Johnson |6–3, 7–5 |
References
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External links
- [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?seq=1&id=njp.32101072325531&page=root&view=image&size=100&orient=0 HathiTrust Digital Library – The Science of Lawn Tennis (1910), by Edward B. Dewhurst]
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Category:Tennis players from Sydney
Category:Australian male tennis players
Category:United States National champions (tennis)
Category:Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
Category:Australian emigrants to the United States
Category:Tennis players from Philadelphia
Category:University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine alumni
Category:Penn Quakers men's tennis players
Category:Sportsmen from New South Wales
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