Rodney Heath

Rodney Heath was an Australian tennis player, born on 15 June 1884 and found dead in Melbourne on 26 October 1936. He was the men's singles champion at the inaugural Australasian Championships in 1905, beating Albert Curtis in four sets, and he won again five years later, in 1910, beating Horace Rice in three straight sets in the final. In 1911 he played in the Davis Cup challenge round in New Zealand against the United States and beat William Larned in four sets, and in 1919 he reached the Wimbledon men's doubles final with Randolph Lycett. He was the second son of the official timekeeper of the Victorian Racing Club. In 1915 he left Australia to join the Royal Flying Corps in England, was promoted to major in 1917 and was injured in a crash landing in a snowstorm in 1916.