Adrian Quist

Adrian Quist was an Australian tennis player, born in Medindie, South Australia, on 23 January 1913, who died in Sydney in 1991. He won the Australian Championships men's singles title three times, yet he is remembered above all as a great doubles player: he took ten consecutive Australian doubles titles between 1936 and 1950, the last eight alongside John Bromwich, and was one of the winners of a career doubles slam. He was ranked world number three in singles in 1939 and number four in 1936. His best known singles win came in the 1939 Davis Cup Challenge Round against the United States, when he beat the world number one Bobby Riggs in five sets as Australia took the Cup. After retiring he worked as a journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald and designed the Dunlop Volley shoe, and he entered the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1984.