Leo Ware
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| Full name | Leonard Everett Ware |
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| Turned pro | 1893 (amateur tour) |
| Retired | 1902 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| College | Harvard University |
| Singles | |
| Highest ranking | No.2 (U.S. ranking) |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| US Open | SF (1897, 1898, 1899, 1901) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| US Open | W (1897, 1898) |
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Leonard Everett Ware (September 27, 1876 – December 28, 1914) was an American male tennis player of Canadian origin. He won two titles in the men's doubles competition at the U.S. National Championships played at the Newport Casino, and reached the semifinals of the singles four times.
Ware won the interscholastic championship held in Newport, representing Roxbury Latin School.[2] He graduated from Harvard University in 1899 and represented Harvard in the intercollegiate tennis tournament, winning in the men's doubles in 1896, 1897 and 1898 and in the singles in 1898.[3][4]
He won the Canadian Championships in 1897, beating Edwin P. Fischer in the final, and again in 1898, defeating Malcolm Whitman in the final. In March 1898 he won the inaugural edition of the U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships, held in Newton Centre, after defeating Holcombe Ward in the final in three straight sets.[5]
In 1896 he was ranked for the first time in the U.S. top 10 and in 1898 achieved his highest U.S. ranking of No.2 behind Malcolm Whitman.[2]
After his tennis career he became a banker and held several positions in the banking industry in Boston and New York where he worked at the firm Mann, Bill & Ware. Om April 19, 1904 he married Margaret Newcomb and the couple had three children.[6] He died of pneumonia after a brief illness on December 28, 1914.[1][6]
Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runners-up)
| Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| Win | 1897 | U.S. Championships | Grass | Template:Flagicon George Sheldon | Template:Flagicon Harold Mahony Template:Flagicon Harold Nisbet |
11–13, 6–2, 9–7, 1–6, 6–1 |
| Win | 1898 | U.S. Championships | Grass | Template:Flagicon George Sheldon | Template:Flagicon Holcombe Ward Template:Flagicon Dwight Davis |
1–6, 7–5, 6–4, 4–6, 7–5 |
| Loss | 1899 | U.S. Championships | Grass | Template:Flagicon George Sheldon | Template:Flagicon Holcombe Ward Template:Flagicon Dwight F. Davis |
4–6, 4–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 1901 | U.S. Championships | Grass | Template:Flagicon Beals Wright | Template:Flagicon Holcombe Ward Template:Flagicon Dwight F. Davis |
3–6, 7–9, 1–6 |
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Leonard E. Ware Dies" (PDF). The New York Times. December 29, 1914.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Varia". Lawn Tennis and Badminton. Vol. VIII, no. 15. February 11, 1915. p. 179.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."NCAA Championships (1883-1956)". Council of Ivy League Presidents. Archived from the original on October 30, 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Collins, Bud (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). [New York]: New Chapter Press. pp. 455, 456, 476. ISBN 978-0942257700.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Robertson, Max (1974). The Encyclopedia of Tennis. London: Allen & Unwin. p. 338. ISBN 9780047960420.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wright, Irving C., ed. (1915). Wright and Ditson's Official Lawn Tennis Guide. Boston: Wright & Ditson. p. 221.
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