Fred Perry

Frederick Towersey Perry, born on 18 May 1909 and died on 2 February 1995, was a British tennis and table tennis player and former world number one. He won ten Majors, including eight Grand Slam singles titles and two Pro Slams, plus six Major doubles titles, and was the first player to win a Career Grand Slam of all four singles titles, completed at the 1935 French Championships. He won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships from 1934 to 1936 and was table tennis world champion in 1929. He led Great Britain to four consecutive Davis Cup victories from 1933 to 1936, turned professional at the end of 1936 and moved to the United States, where he became a naturalised citizen in 1939. After retiring he founded the Fred Perry clothing label in 1952 and worked as a BBC Radio tennis commentator from 1959 to 1994.