Fred Alexander

Frederick Beasley Alexander was an American tennis player of the early twentieth century, born on 14 August 1880 and died on 3 March 1969. In 1908 he became the first foreigner to win the singles title at the Australasian Championships, the amateur precursor of the Australian Open, and he then teamed with Alfred Dunlop, the man he beat in the final, to take the doubles. He won six doubles titles at Grand Slam events, including the United States doubles every year from 1907 to 1910 with Harold Hackett and again in 1917 with Harold Throckmorton. He was a United States top ten player six times, played on the American Davis Cup team in 1908, wrote How to Play Lawn Tennis in 1915 and entered the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1961.