General Walter Cecil
Crawley
Male
England
1880-03-29
Masham, Yorkshire, England
1940-10-11
Graffham, West Sussex, England


About

The son of a Church of England minister and grammar school headmaster, Yorkshire-born Walter Crawley was educated at Oxford. He won the lawn tennis championship of his native county in 1907, a year that saw him also win the Dieppe tournament, the West Sussex Challenge Cup at Chichester, and reach the final of the South of England championship where he lost to George Hillyard. The following year was equally memorable for Crawley as he won the Sussex championship and enjoyed his best year at Wimbledon, reaching the singles quarter-final, but lost to Josiah Ritchie. And it was Ritchie who beat him again in the final of the European Championship at Queen’s Club. At the 1908 Olympics Crawley and partner Kenneth Powell beat the Canadian pair Captain Foulkes and Bobby Powell before losing to fellow Britons George Hillyard and Reggie Doherty. In the singles, Walter reached the third round after receiving a bye in round two but was no match for Britain’s Josiah Ritchie, the eventual champion, who won in straight sets. Walter reached the semi-final of the men’s doubles at Wimbledon on two occasions – with Ireland’s Cecil Parke in 1910 and with Augustus Hendriks in 1913. He made his last appearance at Wimbledon in 1927 aged 47.

Walter’s older brother Alfred was a quarter-finalist at Wimbledon in 1902 and 1906 and in the 1913 Queen’s Club tournament the two brothers met in the last eight, with Walter winning.



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Archive statistics 1901 - 1927
8
223
155


Tournament wins 1923 - New Forest Tournament (Amateur)
1922 - New Forest Tournament (Amateur)
1922 - Roehampton Autumn Meeting (Amateur)
1908 - Sussex Championships (Amateur)
1908 - Epsom (Amateur)
1907 - Dieppe (Amateur)
1907 - Chichester (Open)
1907 - North of England Championships (Open)


Tournaments Wimbledon - 1927 Wimbledon - 1926 Wimbledon - 1924 Wimbledon - 1923 World Covered Court Championships - 1923 New Forest Tournament - 1923 Wimbledon - 1922 Isle of Wight Championships - 1922 British Covered Court Championships - 1922 Roehampton Autumn Meeting - 1922 New Forest Tournament - 1922 Wimbledon - 1921 World Hardcourt Championships - 1921 British Covered Court Championships - 1921 London Covered Court Championships - 1921 Welsh Covered Court Championships - 1921 Wimbledon - 1920 World Covered Court Championships - 1920 Wimbledon - 1919 Queens Club Tournament - 1919 Wimbledon - 1914 Queens Club Tournament - 1914 Wimbledon - 1913 Queens Club Tournament - 1913 South of England Championships - 1913 Wimbledon - 1910 Queens Club Tournament - 1910 Sussex Championships - 1910 European Championship - 1910 Midland Counties Championships - 1910 Nottingham - 1910 Wimbledon Plate (Consolation) - 1910 Northern Lawn Tennis Association Tournament - 1910 North of England Championships - 1909 Championships of Wales - 1909 Midland Counties Championships - 1909 Nottingham - 1909 Leicester - 1909 Warwickshire Championships - 1909 Southampton - 1909 Wimbledon - 1908 Olympics, Olympic Games - 1908 Queens Club Tournament - 1908 Sussex Championships - 1908 North of England Championships - 1908 European Championship - 1908 Nottingham - 1908 Leicester - 1908 Chichester - 1908 Epsom - 1908 Wimbledon - 1907 Austrian International Championships - 1907 Dieppe - 1907 North of England Championships - 1907 Nottingham - 1907 South of England Championships - 1907 British Covered Court Championships - 1907 Chichester - 1907 Tournoi du TC Flandres - 1907 Château-d'Œx - 1906 Les Avants - 1906 Northumberland Championships - 1905 Château-d'Œx - 1905 Crystal Palace - 1905 Wimbledon - 1904 Midland Counties Championships - 1904 Northumberland Championships - 1904 Berkshire Championships - 1904 Wimbledon - 1903 Midland Counties Championships - 1903 Northumberland Championships - 1903 Buxton - 1903 Berkshire Championships - 1903 Wimbledon - 1902 Midland Counties Championships - 1902 Wimbledon - 1901 Yorkshire Championships - 1901

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