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Wylie Cameron Grant
American tennis player

Wylie Cameron Grant

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American tennis player
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Wylie Grant
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Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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88 years
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Wylie Cameron Grant (November 24, 1879 – November 16, 1968) was an American tennis champion.

In 1902 and 1904 he won the U.S. National Championships mixed doubles title together with Elisabeth Moore. He was the singles runner-up at the Irish Championships in 1908.

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Grant was born on November 24, 1879. In 1894, Grant first entered the singles at the U. S. championships aged 14 years 8 months and is the youngest men's singles competitor in the tournament's history. He lost in round one to N. Lord.

In 1905 Grant and Edward Dewhurst made it to the final round of the lawn tennis doubles championship at the St. Nicholas Rink.

Grant won the singles title at the U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships, played on wooden courts at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York, on five occasions (1903, 1904, 1906, 1908 and 1912).

In 1914 Grant and George C. Shafer took the title from Gustave F. Touchard and William Cragin, in the championship round of the U. S. men's indoor doubles in New York City.

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