British sports journalist and historian (1915?1990)
Lance Tingay
(15 July 1915 ? 10 March 1990) was a British sports journalist, historian, and author of several
tennis
books. For many years his annual ranking of top tennis players was "the only one that counted" before
ATP rankings
were introduced in 1973.
[1]
Career
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Journalism
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Tingay began his journalism career with the
Exchange Telegraph
news agency. Tingay claimed that he had watched every Wimbledon Championship beginning since 1932.
[2]
During World War II, he served in the
Royal Air Force
.
[3]
Tingay was the tennis correspondent for
The Daily Telegraph
from 1952 until his retirement in 1981.
Books
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He wrote several books on tennis, including
One Hundred Years of Wimbledon
, the official volume marking the centenary of the
Wimbledon Championships
, and
Royalty and Lawn Tennis
. As a tennis historian, he compiled the data for the tennis yearbook
World of Tennis
from 1970 until his death in 1990.
Rankings and assessments of players
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During several decades, before the introduction of official computerized rankings, Tingay published his annual
World Rankings
of the top 10 players.
In The Encyclopedia of Tennis (1973) Tingay listed his personal choices of the greatest players in tennis history. He ranked them in order as Tilden, Budge, Laver, Gonzales and Hoad.
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In 1979, he stated that Hoad was "the most virtuoso tennis player I have ever seen, for sure...Hoad could do anything."
[5]
Honours
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In 1982, he was inducted into the
International Tennis Hall of Fame
.
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In 1985, he self-published an anthology of the works of English novelist
Anthony Trollope
.
[3]
He received the
Allison Danzig
award for distinguished tennis writing in 1968 and was an honorary member of the
All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
.
[3]
[6]
Bibliography
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- History of Lawn Tennis in Pictures
(1973)
- Tennis: A Pictorial History
(1977)
- One Hundred Years of Wimbledon
(1977)
- Royalty and Lawn Tennis
(1977)
- The Guinness Book of Tennis Facts and Feats
(1983)
- The Trollope collector : a record of writings by and books about Anthony Trollope
(1985)
References
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"The Rankings That Changed Tennis (Part I)"
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Mike Lupica, Daily News, 3 July 1979.
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a
b
c
John Barrett, ed. (1991).
World of Tennis 1991
. London: Collins Willow. p. 342.
ISBN
978-0002184038
.
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Robertson, Max (1974). The Encyclopedia of Tennis. London: Allen & Unwin. p. 175. ISBN 9780047960420.
- ^
Mike Lupica, Daily News, 3 July 1979.
- ^
a
b
"Lance Tingay"
. International Tennis Hall of Fame
. Retrieved
17 June
2017
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