Dick Savitt

Richard Savitt (March 4, 1927 – January 6, 2023) was an

Dick Savitt
American tennis player.[2][3][4]

In 1951, at the age of 24, he won both the Australian and

Wimbledon men's singles championships. Savitt was mostly
ranked world No. 2 the same year behind fellow amateur
Frank Sedgman, but he was declared world No. 1 by The New
York Times following his Wimbledon victory.[4][1] He retired
the following year to concentrate on a career in business.
Savitt is one of four American men who have won both the
Australian and British Championships in one year, following
Don Budge (1938) and preceding Jimmy Connors (1974) and
Pete Sampras (1994 and 1997). He won gold medals in both
singles and men's doubles at the 1961 Maccabiah Games in
Israel.

Savitt is enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame,

Savitt holding the 1951 Wimbledon men's trophy
the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Men's Collegiate Tennis
Hall of Fame, the USTA Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame, the Full name Richard Savitt
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and the National Country (sports) United States
Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Born March 4, 1927
Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.
Died January 6, 2023 (aged 95)
Early life Manhattan, New York, U.S.

Savitt was born in Bayonne, New Jersey to a Jewish Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)

family.[2][5][6] He taught himself tennis at the age of 14 and Turned pro 1944 (amateur tour)
never took a tennis lesson in his life.[2][3][4] The self-taught Retired 1952 (played part-time
Savitt made the finals of the New Jersey Boys Championship, afterwards)
and for two years, the National Boys Tennis Tournament
Plays Right-handed (one-handed
before moving to the junior ranks.[2] He and his family moved backhand)
to El Paso, Texas, in 1944, as his mother had a bad skin
College Cornell University (57–2
condition and needed the warmer weather.[7][8]
record in singles)
His first love was basketball, and when his family moved to Int. Tennis HoF 1976 (member page (https://w
Texas, he was an All-State forward and a co-captain of the ww.tennisfame.com/hall-of-fa
basketball team at El Paso High School in 1944.[2][3] Despite mers/inductees/dick-savitt/))
considering tennis his "second" sport after basketball, he won Singles
the Texas University Interscholastic League boys singles
Career record 320-105
championship in 1944–1945.[9] Nationally he was the 8th-
Career titles 37
ranked junior tennis player, and the 17th-ranked amateur
overall.[2][10] Highest ranking No. 1 (July 1951, The New
York Times)[1]
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open W (1951)
In 1945, Savitt entered the Navy, stationed at the Naval Air French Open QF (1951, 1952)
Station in Memphis, Tennessee.[8][2] Wimbledon W (1951)
US Open SF (1950, 1951)
Doubles
College
Grand Slam doubles results
Beginning in 1946, Savitt attended Cornell University, where French Open F (1951, 1952)
he majored in economics, was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi
Medal record
fraternity, and he was elected a member of the Sphinx Head
Society.[11][12][13] However, two injuries, one to his knee, Maccabiah Games

curtailed his basketball career.[2][3] 1961 Israel Men's Singles

1961 Israel Men's Doubles
Savitt resumed playing tennis.[2] He became Cornell's tennis
team captain and its #1 singles and doubles player.[3][14][15] In
1947, he was ranked # 26 in the U.S., and two years later he was ranked # 17.[3] In 1949 and 1950, as a junior and a
senior, he won the Eastern Intercollegiate Tournament, and he won the doubles title with Leonard Steiner from
1948 to 1950.[13][15] He was 57–2 in singles for his college career, and he graduated in June 1950.[15]

Post-college tennis career

Savitt ranked in the world's top 10 four times between 1951 and 1957 (# 2 in 1951); and in the U.S. top 10 six
times between 1950 and 1959.[16] That was despite the fact that Savitt did not compete in 1953–55.[16] Among
Savitt's major victories were the 1951 Wimbledon singles championship and the 1951 Australian Open. He also
won the 1952, 1958, and 1961 USLTA National Indoor Championships, becoming the first player to win that crown
three times, and won the Italian doubles. He won the Canadian singles and doubles championships in 1952.

1950–1953
In 1950, he won the Eastern Clay Court Championships defeating Don McNeill in the final in four sets and the
New York State Championships defeating McNeill in a five-set final.[3]

Still without any coaching, in 1950 Savitt reached the U. S. Tennis Championship semifinals at Forest Hills, losing
to Art Larsen.[2][3]

In 1951, at the age of 24, Savitt won the Wimbledon Singles Championship. Along the way he beat Larsen, the No.
1 U.S. player, in straight sets, and Herbert Flam, the No. 2 U.S. player.[13] He won the Australian Open Singles
title, winning in straight sets in the 61-minute final against Ken McGregor.[13][17] He became the first American
since Don Budge, 13 years earlier, to win both Wimbledon and the Australian Open in one season.[15]

Savitt became the first Jewish male player to win either tournament.[2][3][6][18] In the Jewish parts of North London,
Savitt said "Nobody knew tennis there, but after I won people started picking up rackets".[6] In addition, he became
the first Jewish athlete to appear on the cover of Time magazine.[5][19] The significance of a Jewish tennis player
succeeding was rooted in the fact that tennis was still at the time primarily a country club sport, and many country
clubs often did not allow Jews in as members and did not allow them to use their courts.[3][20] This, in turn, kept
many Jewish tennis players from obtaining the training they needed to compete at the highest levels.[3]
Savitt was ranked second in the world in 1951.[4] He was ranked the No. 1 player on the United States Davis Cup
Team.[4][19] He made it to the semifinals of the Australian Open in January 1952.[21] In February 1952, he beat Bill
Talbert to win the U.S. National Indoor championship.[22] He won the Canadian singles and doubles championships
in 1952, defeating Kurt Nielsen in the singles final in three straight sets.[15] In September 1952, he beat Art Larsen
to win the Pacific Coast men's singles tennis championship.[5][23]

Davis Cup snub and retirement

Savitt had played and won his three early 1951
In those days, to be Jewish in the top ranks of tennis was
matches in an exhibition against the Australian
to encounter a certain amount of prejudice. ... when Dick
Davis Cup team, winning 9 of 10 sets as the
Savitt won Wimbledon, his right to a place on the Davis
American team beat Australia in the event. Allison
Cup team was challenged in some circles because he was
Danzig, the senior American tennis writer, called
Jewish.[24]
him America's best hope for victory.[2] He had
defeated Frank Sedgman, Australia's best player, in
— Arthur Ashe
the 1951 Australian Open.[2][3] Ted Schroeder,
who had lost all three of his Davis Cup matches
while losing 9 out of 10 sets in the process the year before and who was in semi-retirement, was chosen by non-
playing captain Frank Shields.[2] Five of the top 10 players in the U.S. publicly accused Shields of "obvious
prejudice" in his choosing the team.[25] Without Savitt playing singles, and with Schroeder losing two of his three
matches, the United States lost the 1951 Davis Cup to Australia.[2]

The controversy spilled over into the next year when the 1951 nationally ranked players were bitterly debated at the
January 1952 U.S. Lawn Tennis Association annual meeting.[26] Members of the Association's Eastern, New
England, Southern, Florida, and Texas delegations, whose chief spokesman was Gardnar Mulloy, were in favor of
Savitt being named the No. 1 tennis player in the U.S.[27] However, Shields attacked Savitt in a "biting",
"unprecedented" speech, which observers said swung the vote against Savitt.[27][28] As it was reported by Time
magazine, "the loudest talker was Frank Shields, non-playing captain of the losing U.S. Davis Cup team. Shields
had ignored Savitt in the Davis Cup matches, had put his confidence in aging (30) Ted Schroeder ... who turned out
to be the goat of the series. Shields was intent on keeping Savitt ranked ... at No. 3. Cried Shields: 'Never once in
the past three months has Savitt looked like a champion.' " Don McNeill, the 1940 U.S. champion, answered
Shields' outburst by pointing out that players are ranked on their tennis ability, that personal prejudice should have
nothing to do with ranking, and that Shields' remarks were "uncalled for".[26] That met with "resounding applause"
from the delegates.[29] Australian Davis Cup team Harry Hopman called his arguments as to why Savitt should not
be ranked No. 1 "weak".[2] (https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m-8pAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ryMEAAAAIBAJ&
pg=3346,2423655&dq=frank-shields+davis-cup+savitt&hl=en) Still, a never-before-required proxy vote was
needed to decide the No. 1 spot.[27][28] Savitt was ranked the No. 2 player in the U.S. by the U.S. Lawn Tennis
Association, behind Vic Seixas and directly ahead of Tony Trabert.[27]

In February 1952, Savitt announced that he would play only one more tournament, the National Indoor
Championships, and then retire from tournament tennis—at age 25.[3] He later explained that there was insufficient
money in the amateur game to support his needs, requiring him to pursue his business career.[30] Savitt did not
believe that anti-Semitism was the cause of his problems with Shields.[30] Savitt had beaten Shields badly in the
quarterfinals of the New Jersey State Championships in 1948. Also, Shields had been excluded from the 1933 U.S.
Davis Cup team despite being ranked U.S. No. 1 for that year by the USLTA.[31][32]

Part-time comeback
Savitt returned to the competitive tennis scene part-time in 1954. In April 1954 he won the clay court River Oaks
Championshipsin Houston, Texas defeating Sven Davidson, Gardnar Mulloy, Vic Seixas, and Ham Richardson in
the final, the latter three members of the U.S. Davis Cup team.
In August 1957 he won the Eastern Grass Court Championships at South Orange, New Jersey defeating U.S. Davis
Cup players Ham Richardson and Vic Seixas in the final two rounds in best-of-five set matches.

In 1958, Savitt moved back to New York for business reasons and launched a part-time comeback in tennis. That
year, he won his second National Indoors title, defeating Grant Golden, Kurt Nielsen, and Budge Patty in the final
three rounds. In 1961, he captured his third—while remaining a weekend player, defeating Pierre Darmon, Chris
Crawford, and U.S. No. 1 Whitney Reed in the final.[2] In 1981, he and his son, Robert, won the U.S. Father-Son
doubles title.[15]

Maccabiah Games; Israel

In 1961, he won gold medals in both singles (defeating American Mike Franks in the final), and doubles (with
Franks, defeating South Africans Rod Mandelstam and Julie Mayers), at the 1961 Maccabiah Games in Israel, the
third-largest sporting event in the world.[33][2][34] He was also very active in the Maccabi movement.[2]

Savitt in addition helped develop the Israel Tennis Centers, beginning in 1973.[2][15] In 1998, he was the ITA
overseas tennis director.[35] In his 2007 book The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes: An Illustrated Compendium of
Sports History and The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars, author Peter S. Horvitz ranked Savitt the 9th-greatest
Jewish athlete of all time.[36]

Halls of fame
Savitt was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1976.[3] Savitt was inducted into the International
Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1979.[3][37] He was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Men's
Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 1986.[38] Savitt was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in
1998,[39] and into the USTA Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999.[40]

After tennis
Following his competitive tennis career, Savitt entered the oil business in Louisiana.[2] He then worked for Lehman
Brothers, and in 1985, he joined Schroders.[41] Savitt died on January 6, 2023, at the age of 95.[42]

Grand Slam finals

Singles (two titles)

Result Year Championship Surface Opponent Score

Win 1951 Australian Championships Grass Ken McGregor 6–3, 2–6, 6–3, 6–1

Wimbledon
Win 1951 Grass Ken McGregor 6–4, 6–4, 6–4
Championships

Doubles (two runner-ups)

Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score

Ken McGregor
Gardnar
Loss 1951 French Championships Clay Frank 2–6, 6–2, 7–9, 5–7
Mulloy
Sedgman
 Ken McGregor
Gardnar
Loss 1952 French Championships Clay Frank 3–6, 4–6, 4–6
Mulloy
Sedgman

Grand Slam performance timeline

Key
W F SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#)
qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed);
(W–L) win–loss record.

1953-
Tournament 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1956 1957 1958 1959
1955

Australian A A A A A A A W SF A A A A A

French A A A A A A A QF QF A A A A A
Wimbledon A A A A A A A W QF A A A A A

U.S. 1R A 3R 2R 3R 1R SF SF QF A QF 4R QF 3R

See also
List of select Jewish tennis players

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