Dinny Pails

Dennis Dinny Pails was a tennis player who was born in England on 4 March 1921, moved to Australia with his family in 1922 at the age of one, and died on 22 November 1986. He won the men's singles championship at the Australian Championships in 1947, beating John Bromwich in a five set final after saving a match point. Pails played eight Davis Cup matches for Australia between 1946 and 1947, winning three and losing five, and turned professional at the end of 1947. He reached world number six in the 1947 amateur rankings, and Bud Collins ranked him fourth among the professionals in 1948. In late 1950 he won a four man tour of New Zealand that included Pancho Gonzales, Don Budge and Frank Parker.