Dick Savitt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetDick Savitt
American tennis player
Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1927
Place of Birth: Bayonne, New Jersey, United States
Profession: tennis player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Dick Savitt
- Richard Savitt (born March 4, 1927) is a right-handed American former tennis player.In 1951, at the age of 24, he won both the Australian and Wimbledon men's singles championships.
- Savitt was mostly ranked World No.
- 2 the same year behind fellow amateur Frank Sedgman, though was declared World No.
- 1 by The New York Times following his Wimbledon victory.
- He retired the following year.
- Savitt is one of four American men who have won both the Australian and British Championships in one year, following Don Budge (1938) and preceding Jimmy Connors (1974) and Pete Sampras (1994 and 1997). He is enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Men's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame, the USTA Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
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