103565 | GREAT BRITAIN & AUSTRALIA. Wimbledon/Harry Hopman silver Award Medal.

103565  |  GREAT BRITAIN & AUSTRALIA. Wimbledon/Harry Hopman silver Award Medal. Engraved and awarded in 1935 for the mixed doubles runners-up at the Wimbledon Championships (38mm, 25.66 gms, 12h). By Fattorini & Sons.

 

Athena, representing the virtues of athletic competition, kneeling left before tennis net, holding crowning Nike on globus and wrapping laurel wreath around the earth // THE LAWN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS, "• 1935 • / MIXED DOUBLES / RUNNERS–UP / H. C. HOPMAN, / MRS H. C. HOPMAN" engraved in five lines. Edge: Plain.

 

PCGS MS-64. Matte gray surfaces, with some darker highlights around the devices. An incredibly attractive and interesting medal from one of Australia's greatest tennis players and coaches.

 

Born in a suburb of Sydney, Australia in 1906, Henry Christian Hopman began playing tennis at the age of 13, and would go on to be the men's finalist at the Australasian Championship (now Australian Open) in 1930, 1931, and 1932. Though he would never garner a Grand Slam singles title, he did so in doubles, winning the Australasian in 1929 and 1930, and the mixed doubles title there in 1930, 1936, 1937, and 1939, as well as the mixed doubles at the US Open in 1939. The medal offered here was earned for his runners-up finish—along with his then-wife, Nell Hall—for their mixed doubles loss in the Wimbledon Finals in 1935. Following World War II, his focus turned more toward journalism and coaching, eventually serving as the captain-coach of some 22 Australian Davis Cup teams from 1939 to 1967. In this role, his Davis Cup coaching coincided with Australia's golden era in tennis, alongside such greats as Ken Rosewall and Rod Laver, among others. At the end of the '60's, he relocated to the United States, coaching a young future star, John McEnroe, at the Port Washington Tennis Academy on Long Island, and then at his own academy founded in Bardmoor, Florida in 1976. Hopman passed away from a heart attack in 1985 at the age of 79, having been predeceased by his first wife Nell in 1968.

 

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