| George Stewart | |
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| Plays: | Left-handed |
| Usopenresult: | 2R (1953, 1954, 1957) |
| Medaltemplates-Expand: | yes |
George Stewart was a Panama-born tennis player.
Stewart, a black player, was dominant in the American Tennis Association (ATA) during the 1940s and 1950s, along with Althea Gibson from the women's bracket.[1] A seven-time singles champion, he won his first ATA title in 1947.[2] In 1952 he and Reginald Weir were the first blacks to compete at the U.S. national championships (modern day US Open).[3]
A left-handed player, Stewart was a doubles silver medalist for Panama at the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mexico City and also represented his birth country at the Bolivarian Games.[4]
Stewart played collegiate tennis for South Carolina State University (then known as South Carolina State Agricultural and Mechanical Institute).[4]