Bob Falkenburg

Robert Falkenburg was a Brazilian-American tennis player and entrepreneur, born in New York City on 29 January 1926 and dead in Santa Ynez, California on 6 January 2022. He grew up in Los Angeles in a tennis-playing family and won the NCAA singles and doubles titles at the University of Southern California in 1946. In 1947 he won the Wimbledon doubles title with Jack Kramer, and in 1948 he won the men's singles championship, beating Australia's John Bromwich after saving three match points in the fifth set. He played for Brazil in the Davis Cup in 1954 and 1955. After turning down a professional contract he opened an ice cream shop near Copacabana in 1952 that grew into Bob's, the first fast food chain in South America. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1974.