Top 5 British Tennis players of all time

Day Thirteen: The Championships - Wimbledon 2016
Day Thirteen: The Championships - Wimbledon 2016

2. Fred Perry

Fred Perry
Fred Perry

Fred Perry is a former World No. 1 tennis player from England. He has 8 Grand Slam titles, 2 Pro Slam Titles and 6 Major doubles titles to his credit.

Perry won the Wimbledon Championships 3 consecutive times between 1934 and 1936, to reign as the World Amateur Number 1. He was the last male British player to have won Wimbledon, until Andy Murray came along to win it in 2013. Perry was also the last British player to win the US Open Championships in 1936, until Murray took over in 2012.

Perry was the first player to win a Career Grand Slam, winning all the four singles titles at the age of 26, in the year 1935, when he won the French Open. He was also the World Champion in Table Tennis in 1929.

Perry was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1975.

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