Welby Van Horn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American tennis player
Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1920
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Death: 17-Sep-2014
Profession: tennis player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Welby Van Horn
- Sidney Welby Van Horn (September 8, 1920 - September 17, 2014) was a retired American professional tennis player who later went on to have a career as a major tennis coach. As a 19-year-old player, Van Horn reached the finals of the 1939 U.S.
- Nationals beating John Bromwich only to lose to Bobby Riggs in just 56 minutes (6–4, 6–2, 6–4).
- One of the high points of his career was a crushing defeat (6–0, 6–2, 6–1) of the great Bill Tilden at a match between U.S.
- and British Empire service teams at Wimbledon in July 1945, supposedly the worst drubbing of Tilden's career — Tilden, however, was 52 years old at the time while Van Horn was 25.
- Van Horn also won the United States Pro Championship in 1945.
- He was ranked as high as World No.
- 5 in the professional ranks (the Professional Players Association, instated by Bill Tilden) in 1946.
- Gordon Lowe ranked Van Horn as World No.
- 9 for 1939 in his amateur rankings.He lived briefly in Atlanta, Ga., where he had been hired as Head Tennis Professional at the Piedmont Driving Club.
- In 1951, he moved to Puerto Rico as a coach at the Caribe Hilton Swim and Tennis Club, where he worked with many promising juniors, the most notable being Charlie Pasarell who was ranked No.1 in the U.S.
- in 1967 who he continued to coach on the main tour, another notable junior was Manuel Diaz, later to become a star on the University of Georgia tennis team and UGA coach. His career as a coach spawned institutions such as the Welby Van Horn Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, Florida, and Welby Van Horn Tennis programs in a number of locations.
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