Arthur Gore

Arthur Gore was a British tennis player who competed from the late Victorian years into the 1920s and became one of the most durable champions the sport has known. Born in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, in 1868 and raised largely in France, he was best known for winning three singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships, and he was also runner-up a record five times, a mark he shares with Herbert Lawford. His 1909 victory at the age of 41 made him the oldest person to win a Grand Slam singles title. At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London he won gold in both the indoor singles and, with Herbert Barrett, the indoor doubles, and he returned for the 1912 Games in Stockholm. Gore entered the Wimbledon singles draw a record 30 times across 34 years, won 51 singles titles in all, and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006.