Jack Lysaght

Jack Lysaght
Full name	John Frederick Gerald Lysaght
Country (sports)	Great Britain
Born	27 September 1906
Died	7 April 1954 (aged 47)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
French Open	2R (1934)
Wimbledon	3R (1933, 1934)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon	2R (1934, 1935, 1937, 1938)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	4R (1938)

John Frederick Gerald Lysaght (27 September 1906 – 7 April 1954) was a British tennis player.

Lysaght, an Oxford Blue, came from a wealthy Somerset family. His father Gerald was an industrialist and a significant donor to Ernest Shackleton, accompanying the explorer to Cape Verde as a helmsman on the 1921 Quest Expedition.^[1] The family occupied Chapel Cleeve Manor in Somerset. Active on tour in the 1930s, Lysaght was known for his considerable height and twice reached the singles third round of the Wimbledon Championships.^[2]

References

^ "Duty In Excess OF Estate". Evening Sentinel. 20 August 1954.
^ "Death Of Ex-Champion". Bristol Evening Post. 8 April 1954.

External links

Jack Lysaght at the Association of Tennis Professionals

[1] "Duty In Excess OF Estate". Evening Sentinel. 20 August 1954.

[2] "Death Of Ex-Champion". Bristol Evening Post. 8 April 1954.

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