Victor Reginald
Gauntlett
Male
South Africa
1884-01-30
London, England
1949-02-12
Witbank, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Victor Gauntlett competed for South Africa in the tennis events at the 1908 Summer Olympics, where he took part in the men’s singles and men’s doubles. In the singles competition he was beaten by the Englishman Major Ritchie in straight sets in the first round. In the men’s doubles event he paired with his compatriot Harold Kitson; they reached the quarter-finals, where they lost in five sets to the English pair of Clement Cazalet and Charles Dixon. Gauntlett reached the finals of the 1908 men’s singles event at the South African Championships but was defeated by Harold Kitson in five sets. Also in 1908, he was runner-up in the All England Plate event, a competition held during the Wimbledon Championships which was open to players who had been defeated in the first or second round of the men’s singles event.
His best performance at a major tournament came in 1913 when he reached the third round of the men’s singles event at the Wimbledon Championships, where Kenneth Powell proved too strong for him. Victor Gauntlett was a member of the 1913 South African Davis Cup team, when that country took part in the competition for the first time. South Africa were eliminated by four rubbers to one in a first-round tie played against Canada on the grass courts of the Queen’s Club in London. Gauntlett won the only point for South Africa in his first singles match. He and Reginald Le Sueur lost the doubles match and Gauntlett conceded his second singles match.
1903 - 1914
0
49
31
Round 1
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
R.A. Barry
6-0
6-1
6-2
Round 2
Captain Edward Aubrey Persse 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
5-7
2-6
6-3
6-3
8-6
Poule
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Bernard Schwengers
11-9
6-3
6-0
Poule
Robert Powell 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
w.o.
Round 1
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Arthur Wallis Myers
6-2
6-0
6-0
Round 2
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Ludwig von Salm
3-6
6-4
6-3
6-3
Round 3
Kenneth Powell 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
4-6
6-1
6-3
7-5
Round 1
George Stoddart 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
6-4
ret.
Round 1
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
S.M. Page
6-0
6-0
6-0
Round 2
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Kappel Jones
6-2
6-2
6-3
Quarterfinals
Harold Kitson 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
8-6
9-7
6-2
Round 3
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
D.I. Fraser
6-2
6-2
6-0
Quarterfinals
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
George Melville
6-0
6-1
6-0
Semifinals
Harold Kitson 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
6-2
4-6
6-4
4-6
8-6
Round 2
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
F.M. Cowan
6-2
6-3
6-1
Round 3
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
C.A. Fairlie
6-3
6-1
6-1
Round 4
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Charles Winslow
2-6
6-3
6-2
2-6
6-3
Quarterfinals
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Harold William Sevenoaks
9-7
6-1
6-4
Semifinals
Harold Kitson 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
6-3
6-4
6-4
Round 2
Major Josiah George Ritchie 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
6-3
1-6
6-2
6-4
Round 2
Major Josiah George Ritchie 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
6-1
6-4
6-1
Round 2
Lionel Escombe 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
9-11
6-2
6-4
7-9
7-5
Quarterfinals
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Percy Hugh Robbs
6-1
6-1
6-3
Semifinals
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Cecil Edward Howard Tripp
6-1
6-4
6-1
Final
Harold Kitson 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
6-2
7-5
2-6
7-9
6-2
Round 1
Herbert Roper Barrett 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
6-1
6-3
Round 3
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
C.G. Kennedy
6-2
6-2
6-3
Quarterfinals
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Percy Hugh Robbs
7-9
6-3
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Harold Kitson 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
4-6
9-7
4-6
9-7
6-1
Round 1
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Herbert Bird Routledge
6-2
6-1
8-6
Round 2
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
John Flavelle
9-11
5-7
6-4
7-5
6-1
Quarterfinals
Walter Cecil Crawley 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
6-1
2-6
2-6
6-1
6-4
Round 1
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Sirdar Nihal Singh
6-3
6-2
Round 2
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Charles Pritchett
7-9
6-3
6-4
Round 3
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Harold Kitson
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Percival Davson
9-7
6-2
Semifinals
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Alfred Beamish
6-2
6-4
Final
Oscar Kreuzer 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Walter Charles Howard Tripp
6-3
3-6
6-4
2-6
6-1
Round 2
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
E. Grayham
6-2
6-4
6-3
Round 3
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
G.R. Carpenter
6-4
6-1
6-3
Quarterfinals
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Captain Faulkes
3-6
4-6
6-4
6-4
6-4
Semifinals
Harold Kitson 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
6-1
6-1
7-5
Round 1
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
W.E. Bielski
6-2
6-2
6-2
Round 2
Walter Charles Howard Tripp 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
7-5
2-6
6-1
6-4
Round 1
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
G. Barker
w.o.
Round 2
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
E.L.C. Platt
6-2
6-2
6-2
Round 3
Victor Gauntlett 1 *
Percy William Sherwell
6-1
6-4
3-6
7-5
Quarterfinals
George Churton Collins 1 *
Victor Gauntlett
6-1
6-4
6-3