Bill Gilmour
Full nameBill Gilmour Sr.
Country (sports) Australia
Born(1934-08-09)9 August 1934
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open2R (1954, 1955, 1956)
Wimbledon2R (1955)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
WimbledonQF (1955)

Bill Gilmour, OAM (born 9 August 1934) is an Australian former tennis player of the 1950s.

Biography

A native of Sydney, Gilmour attended Canterbury High School and excelled in swimming as a youth, breaking two of Olympian Bruce Bourke's school backstroke records.[1]

In 1953 he won Australia's junior tennis championships, beating Mal Anderson in the final.[2] Later in the year he took a set off an albeit injured Vic Seixas when they met at the Victorian championships.[3]

On his senior main draw debut at the Australian Championships in 1954, Gilmour won his first round match over Bill Talbert, who was at the time the U.S. Davis Cup captain.[4]

In 1955 he was a mixed doubles quarter-finalist at Wimbledon with Daphne Seeney.[5]

Gilmour began working as a tournament referee in the 1970s, featuring in the Davis Cup and Grand Prix tennis circuit.[6]

His son, Bill Jr, was a professional tennis player.[7]

References

  1. ^ "World Of Sport". The Advertiser (Adelaide). 30 November 1953. p. 7. Retrieved 2 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Rosewall and Hoad Champions". Cairns Post. No. 15, 868. Queensland, Australia. 17 January 1953. p. 2. Retrieved 2 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Beat Gilmour; happy about injured knee". Sunday Mail. 29 November 1953. p. 32. Retrieved 2 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "U.S. Cup Chief 'Threw' Match". The Daily News. 23 January 1954. p. 7 (Sports). Retrieved 2 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Bill Gilmour". wimbledon.com. Archived from the original on 1 January 2023.
  6. ^ Trembath, Murray (30 October 2017). "'Happy Gilmour' brings lots of smiles". St George & Sutherland Shire Leader.
  7. ^ "Top fields for ACT Open". The Canberra Times. 23 September 1981. p. 46. Retrieved 2 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.

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