Eric Peters | |
Fullname: | Eric Conrad Peters |
Birth Date: | 10 August 1903 |
Wimbledonresult: | 3R (1932) |
Wimbledondoublesresult: | 3R (1932) |
Wimbledonmixedresult: | QF (1930) |
Eric Conrad Peters (10 August 1903 – 28 December 1985) was a British tennis player.
An Oxford graduate, Peters played a patient, defensive brand of tennis and was active in the late 1920s to 1930s, featuring regularly at Wimbledon.[1] He made the mixed doubles quarter-finals of the 1930 Wimbledon Championships with Elsie Pittman. His most famous victory was over Bill Tilden at Cannes in 1930, becoming the first British amateur to defeat the American.[2] He also had a career win over Bunny Austin and once took Jean Borotra to five sets.[3]
Peters, who was involved in his family's brewery business, married tennis player Effie Hemmant in 1932.[4]