Jim Dear
James Dear (1910–1981) was an English racquets, court tennis, and squash player who effectively won world titles in three different sports during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
Rackets[]
Dear won the Rackets World Championships from 1947 to 1954, losing the title to .[1]
Real tennis[]
He also won the Real tennis world championship from 1955 to 1957.
Squash[]
Dear also won the most prestigious title in squash, the British Open, in 1939, at a time when there was no official world championship and the British Open champion was acknowledged as the world's best. Dear was also the runner-up at the competition three times in the 1930s and twice in the late-1940s.
Awards[]
He was among seven British world champions honored at the inaugural Sports Writers' Association - which later became the Sports Journalists' Association in 1949.[2]
See also[]
- Real tennis world champions
- British Open Squash Championships
References[]
- ^ "Our Special Correspondent. "Rackets." Times [London, England] 26 Apr. 1947". Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Triple champion Dear the first among equals". Sports Journalists' Association.
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- English racquets players
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