Gordon Lowe

Sir Francis Gordon Lowe, the 2nd Baronet, was a British tennis player, born on 21 June 1884 and died on 17 May 1972. He is best remembered for winning the Australasian Championships in 1915, where he beat the champion Horace Rice in the final, and for taking the World Covered Court Championships, an indoor event, in 1920. He also won at Queen's Club in 1912, 1913 and 1925, and won the singles title at Monte Carlo in 1920, 1921 and 1923. A. Wallis Myers ranked him world number eight in 1914. He competed at the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics, succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1929, and edited Lowe's Lawn Tennis Annual from 1932 to 1936. His brother Arthur Lowe also played tennis.