Ernest Black
{{Short description|British tennis player}}
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|birth_date = 14 June 1876
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|death_date = 13 February 1931
|death_place = Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Captain Ernest Douglas Black (14 June 1876 – 13 February 1931){{cite journal|editor=Béla Kehrling|editor-link=Béla Von Kehrling|title=Külföldi hírek|trans-title=International news|url=http://epa.oszk.hu/02100/02127/00046/pdf/EPA02127_tennis_es_golf_1931_3_011_12.pdf|volume=III|issue=11–12|page=219|journal=Tennisz és Golf|date=June 6, 1931|publisher=Egyesült Kő-, Könyvnyomda. Könyv- és Lapkiadó Rt.|location=Budapest, Hungary|language=Hungarian|accessdate=November 18, 2012}} was a British tennis player active in the late 19th century and early 20th century.{{cite news |title=Captain E.G. Black Dies at V. G. Hospital |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/776917027/?article=8a89bb9f-5004-4e24-9001-67ef3b3d5c6c&focus=0.4922748,0.3619761,0.6100409,0.55063385&xid=3355 |access-date=11 May 2024 |work=Halifax Mail |date=16 February 1931 |location=Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · Monday |page=4}}
Tennis career
Black reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. National Championships in 1900, losing to the only other competing British player, future three-time Wimbledon champion Arthur Gore. He competed in the very first edition of the Davis Cup (then known as the International Lawn Tennis Challenge) in 1900.Gillmeister, Heiner (1990). [https://books.google.com/books?id=44Vu3DdHFvsC&dq=edmund+d.+black+tennis&pg=PA215 Tennis: A Cultural History], p. 215.
Later life
Black, the son of Scottish parents, worked as an engineer. He served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. In 1917, he married Mary Agnes Cayzer, daughter of Sir Charles Cayzer, 1st Baronet and sister of Herbert Cayzer, 1st Baron Rotherwick. He died in 1931 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
References
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External links
- {{Tennis Archives|id=334}}
- {{Davis Cup player}}
- {{ITF profile}}
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Category:Scottish male tennis players
Category:British male tennis players
Category:British emigrants to Canada
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