Henry Mayes

Henry George Mayes, MBE (14 February 1880 – 1928 ) was a British-Canadian tennis player, military figure and businessman. He was a quarter finalist at the 1920 World Covered Court Championships, and the 1921 Wimbledon Championships. He was active from 1906 to 1928 and won 51 career singles titles. There he founded a tanning company with business associates.

Mayes was on the 1913 Canadian Davis Cup team along with J. F. Foulkes, Robert Powell and Bernie Schwengers. It was Canada's first entry into the Davis Cup and they reached the final of the Cup only to be defeated by the United States in the summer of 1913 at Wimbledon where the Cup was being held.

His career singles highlights include winning the Manitoba Championships in 1910 and again in 1912. In 1926 he won the North London Championships at the Gipsy Lawn Tennis Club, Stamford Hill, London, England against Gordon Lowe. He won the London Championships in 1922, 1926 and 1927, defeating Donald Greig in four sets, Arthur Lowe in straight sets and D.M. Evans in straight sets respectively. He was also a competitor at the Wimbledon Championships. Mayes also won the Côte d'Azur Championships at Cannes, France two times (1923. 1927), and the Monaco Championships (1927). Winning his last championship at the age of 47, when most modern players have long since been retired, he died just a year after his last win in London in 1928 of blood poisoning, aged 48. According to the United States Lawn Tennis Association, Mayes was reported to have still been in peak physical shape before his death, "approaching a half century".