Gordon Crole-Rees | |
Birth Date: | 17 November 1883 |
Birth Place: | Southend-on-Sea, England |
Death Place: | Southend, England |
Frenchopenresult: | 2R (1925) |
Wimbledonresult: | 3R (1925, 1927) |
Frenchopendoublesresult: | SF (1925) |
Wimbledondoublesresult: | QF (1926, 1927, 1928) |
Wimbledonmixedresult: | SF (1930) |
Gordon Rhind Oak Crole-Rees (17 November 1883 – 9 June 1954) was a British tennis player.
Crole-Rees was educated at Highgate School from September 1905 until April 1911.[1]
Crole-Rees made his Davis Cup debut in 1925 when he was used by Great Britain for two singles rubbers against France at Devonshire Park.[2] [3] For the rest of Davis Cup career, a further nine ties, he featured only in the doubles. Initially he partnered Charles Kingsley and then he played alongside Cyril Eames.
Crole-Rees twice reached the third round at the Wimbledon Championships, but had more success at the tournament as a doubles player. He made the quarter-finals in the men's doubles in three successive years from 1926 to 1928. In the 1927 Wimbledon Championships, en route to the quarter-finals, Crole-Rees and his partner Cyril Eames managed to defeat second seeds Jean Borotra and Rene Lacoste.[4] He made semi-finals in the mixed doubles with Phyllis Mudford at the 1930 Wimbledon Championships.