Vic Seixas
American tennis player
Died when: 100 years 310 days (1210 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Elias Victor Seixas Jr. (/'se???s/; pronounced SAY-shus; born August 30, 1923) is an American former tennis player.Seixas was ranked in the top ten in the US on 13 occasions between 1942 and 1956.
In 1951 Seixas was ranked No. 4 amateur in the world, two spots below Dick Savitt, while he was No. 1 in the U.S. ranking, one spot ahead of Savitt.
In 1953, Seixas was ranked No. 3 in the world by Lance Tingay.In 1954 Seixas was ranked amateur number one by Harry Hopman.
In his career, Seixas won 15 Major championships.He won both Wimbledon and the US Open in singles.He also won the Australian Open, French Open (twice), and US Open (twice) in doubles, and the French Open, Wimbledon (four times), and US Open (three times) in Mixed Doubles.
Seixas was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic Hall of Fame, the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame, and the Southern Conference Hall of Fame.
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