Laurence Doherty

✶October 8, 1875

†August 21, 1919

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About their life

Hugh Laurence Doherty was a British tennis player and the younger brother of tennis player Reginald Doherty. He was a six-time Grand Slam champion and a double Olympic Gold medalist at the 1900 Summer Olympics in singles and doubles. In 1903 he became the first non-American player to win the U.S. National Championships.

English tennis player

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Biography from the article Laurence Doherty on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.