Frank Hadow

Frank Hadow was an English tennis player who won the Wimbledon championship in 1878, the second edition of the tournament. He played while on holiday from his coffee plantation in Ceylon, defeated the volleyer Spencer Gore in the challenge round by lobbing, and never defended his title, which makes him the only male champion never to lose a set in singles there. He also played first-class cricket for Middlesex and the Marylebone Cricket Club and later hunted big game in Africa. He returned to Wimbledon nearly fifty years later to receive a commemorative medal as the oldest surviving champion, and died in 1946.