Howard Kinsey

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|name = Howard Kinsey

|fullname = Howard Oreon Kinsey

|image = Howard_Kinsey_1926.jpg

|caption = Kinsey in Paris (1926)

|country = {{USA}}

|birth_date = {{birth date|1899|12|3}}

|birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri, United States

|death_date = {{death date and age|1966|7|26|1899|12|3}}

|death_place = San Francisco, California, United States

|turnedpro = 1927 (amateur from 1920)

|retired = 1931

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|plays = Right-handed (one-handed backhand)

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|highestsinglesranking = No. 7 (1924, A. Wallis Myers)United States Lawn Tennis Association (1972). Official Encyclopedia of Tennis (First Edition), p. 424.

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|FrenchOpenresult = QF (1926)

|Wimbledonresult = F (1926)

|USOpenresult = QF (1924, 1925)

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|USProresult = F (1927)

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|USOpenDoublesresult = W (1924)

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Howard Oreon Kinsey (December 3, 1899 – July 26, 1966) was an American tennis player in the 1920s. He was originally from California.{{cite news|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0C17FB3855117B93CAAB178CD85F428685F9|title=Howard Kinsey, 66, a tennis champion |work=New York Times|access-date=July 11, 2008| date=July 28, 1966}}

Playing record

His significant championships were the 1926 French National men's doubles championship, where he and Vincent Richards beat Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon (a pairing who went on to win three other French National doubles titles) in the final, and the 1924 U.S. National men's doubles championship with his brother Robert Kinsey.

Bill Tilden wrote of the pair that he had "seldom seen a team work together more smoothly than the Kinseys."{{cite book|last=Tilden|first=William T.|title=The Art of Lawn Tennis|year=1922|publisher=Garden City|location=New York|ol=24183166M|page=151}} In 1926, he reached the Wimbledon final, losing to Jean Borotra.{{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|pages=399, 418, 458, 477}}

Kinsey was ranked world No. 7 in 1924 by A. Wallis Myers in his amateur rankings for The Daily Telegraph. As a pro, American Lawn Tennis Magazine ranked Kinsey as world No. 6 in 1930.{{cite journal|editor=K. De Lang|url=http://resources2.kb.nl/010010000/pdf/DDD_010012690.pdf|volume=61|page=15|journal=Het Vaderland|date=January 14, 1930|title=Lawntennis|publisher=C.M. Schilt|language=nl|access-date=July 5, 2013}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Later in 1926, he was one of the early players signed by the promoter Charles C. Pyle to play in his professional tennis league. After a split with Pyle, he joined Richards in forming an association of professional tennis players.{{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=33}}

In 1936, he and Helen Wills Moody volleyed a tennis ball back and forth 2,001 times without missing. The feat took them 1 hour and 18 minutes. They only stopped the exchange so that Kinsey could go teach a lesson that he had scheduled.

Kinsey is a member of the USTA Northern California Hall of Fame.{{cite web|title=USTA Northern California Tennis Hall of Fame |url=https://www.usta.com/en/home/about-usta/usta-awards/northerncalifornia/HallofFame.html |publisher=USTA |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407180051/https://www.usta.com/en/home/about-usta/usta-awards/northerncalifornia/HallofFame.html |archive-date=April 7, 2020 |df=mdy-all }}

Grand Slam finals

= Singles: (1 runner-up) =

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1926

Wimbledon

Grass

{{flagicon|FRA}} Jean Borotra

6–8, 1–6, 3–6

= Doubles: (2 titles, 1 runner-up) =

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style="background:#ccf;" \| style="background:#98fb98;"\|Win	1924	U.S. National Championships	Grass	{{flagicon\|USA\|1912}} Robert Kinsey	{{flagicon\|AUS}} Pat O'Hara Wood {{flagicon\|AUS}} Gerald Patterson	7–5, 5–7, 7–9, 6–3, 6–4
style="background:#ebc2af;" \| style="background:#98fb98;"\|Win	1926	French Championships	Clay	{{flagicon\|USA}} Vincent Richards	{{flagicon\|FRA}} Jacques Brugnon {{flagicon\|FRA}} Henri Cochet	6–4, 6–1, 4–6, 6–4
style="background:#cfc;" \| style="background:#ffa07a;"\|Loss	1926	Wimbledon	Grass	{{flagicon\|USA}} Vincent Richards	{{flagicon\|FRA}} Jacques Brugnon {{flagicon\|FRA}} Henri Cochet	5–7, 6–4, 3–6, 2–6