Frederick Plaskitt
Full name | Frederick James Wade Plaskitt |
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Country (sports) | ![]() |
Born | Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England | 24 December 1867
Died | 10 November 1926[1] Watford, Hertfordshire, England | (aged 58)
Turned pro | 1892 (amateur tour) |
Retired | 1905 |
Singles | |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
Wimbledon | QF (1900) |
Doubles | |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Wimbledon | SF (1903) |
Frederick Plaskitt (24 December 1867 - 10 November 1926) was a British tennis player who played around the turn of the 20th century. He reached the men's singles quarterfinals at Wimbledon in 1900 (he beat Oswald Milne and Robert Hough before losing to losing to Arthur Gore).[2] This was the only year he won a match in a Wimbledon singles career that lasted from 1896 to 1905. Plaskitt was author of the book Microscopic fresh water life. [3]
References[]
- ^ "FreeBMD Entry Info". www.freebmd.org.uk. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
- ^ "The Championships 1900 – Gentlemen's Singles" (PDF). Wimbledon. AELTC.
- ^ Plaskitt, F. J. W. (September 17, 2017). "Microscopic Fresh Water Life". Chapman And Hall Limited. Retrieved September 17, 2017 – via Internet Archive.
Categories:
- 1867 births
- 1926 deaths
- 19th-century male tennis players
- English male tennis players
- British male tennis players
- Tennis people from Lincolnshire
- British tennis biography stubs