About Cyril Eames
Lived 1890 – 1974 (aged 83). Cyril Eames was a tennis player.
Cyril Gladstone Eames (20 October 1890 – 1 August 1974) was a British tennis player.
The son of Charles Gladstone Eames who was also a tennis player, he was most active in the 1920s and made the Wimbledon singles second round four times.
It was his doubles partnership with Gordon Crole-Rees that he was most known for. The pair won the British Covered Court Championships, twice made the Wimbledon doubles quarter-finals and were doubles semi-finalists at the 1925 French Championships, where they lost in five sets to Jean Borotra and René Lacoste. They featured together in the 1928 and 1929 International Lawn Tennis Challenge (Davis Cup) campaigns, winning four of their five doubles rubbers. In their only loss, to Italy in the 1928 Europe Zone semi-final, they had held match points
In 1931 he announced his intention to retire from the tour.
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Who was Cyril Eames?
British tennis player
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Cyril Eames was born on 20 October 1890.
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Cyril Eames died on 1 August 1974.
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Cyril Eames was a tennis player.
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