John Doeg

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Template other John Thomas Godfray Hope Doeg (December 7, 1908 – April 27, 1978) was a male tennis player from the United States.

In August 1929 Doeg won the singles title at the Seabright Invitational defeating Richard Norris Williams in three straight sets. About a year later, he fulfilled his promise and won his first and only major singles tournament, the 1930 U.S. National Championships at Forest Hills, defeating Frank Hunter in the quarterfinals, Bill Tilden in the semifinals and Frank Shields in the final in four sets. He proceeded to reach a career-high singles world ranking of No. 4 in the same year.

In 1962, he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Doeg was the son of tennis player Violet Sutton and the nephew of Wimbledon and U.S. National singles tennis champion May Sutton. Born in Mexico, he became a U.S. citizen in 1933.

Playing style

Although his name is not well known today, Doeg in his heyday often was considered among the premier servers in tennis history:

Don Budge in his book Budge on Tennis later stated the same sentiment:

Budge, however, was careful to note the shortcomings of the rest of Doeg's game. In his 1969 memoir Budge observes "John never achieved the greatest stature in the sport because many facets of his game, his ground strokes, for instance, were somewhat lacking," then proclaimed Doeg "one of the most effective servers of all time":

Grand Slam finals

Singles (1 title)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1930	U.S. Nationals Championships	Grass	Template:Flagicon Frank Shields	10–8, 1–6, 6–4, 16–14

Doubles (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1929	U.S. National Championships	Grass	Template:Flagicon George Lott	Template:Flagicon Berkeley Bell Template:Flagicon Lewis White	10–8, 16–14, 6–1
Loss	1930	Wimbledon Championships	Grass	Template:Flagicon George Lott	Template:Flagicon Wilmer Allison Template:Flagicon John Van Ryn	3–6, 3–6, 2–6
Win	1930	U.S. National Championships	Grass	Template:Flagicon George Lott	Template:Flagicon John Van Ryn Template:Flagicon Wilmer Allison	8–6, 6–3, 4–6, 13–15, 6–4

Publication

In 1931, he wrote an educational tennis book titled "Elements of Lawn Tennis", with sportswriter Allison Danzig.

External links

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