Clarence Hobart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetClarence Hobart
US tennis player
Date of Birth: 27-Jun-1870
Place of Birth: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 02-Aug-1930
Profession: tennis player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Clarence Hobart
- Clarence Hobart (June 27, 1870 – August 2, 1930) was a tennis player from the United States.
- He was a six-time champion at the U.S.
- National Championships, winning three titles in men's doubles in 1890, 1893 and 1894 and three others in mixed doubles in 1892, 1893 and 1905.
- Hobart also reached the Challenge Round in the Gentlemen's Singles in 1891, finishing runner-up. In 1905 he won the mixed doubles title at the U.S.
- National Championship with Augusta Schultz whom he married in 1895.In 1899 he won the Championship of Germany, played in Homburg, by defeating A.W.
- Gore in the final in three straight sets and subsequently winning against Irishman Harold Mahony in the challenge round in five sets.
- At the same venue he reached the final of the Homburg Cup but lost in five sets to Wimbledon champion Reggie Doherty after leading 2–0 in sets.
- During a 1903 tour in Europe he reached the finals of the Kent Championships and the Ostend International tournament in Belgium but was defeated by A.W.
- Gore and Paul de Borman respectively. In 1907 Hobart competed in the Longwood tournament, at the time the most important tournament in the U.S.
- next to the national championship, and won the All-Comers tournament.
- This entitled him to play for the tournament title in the Challenge Round against Larned, the winner of the previous title, but he refused to play explaining "For many years I have opposed the practice of permitting the holders to stand out in our tournaments,...
- on the obvious ground that it is unjust to pit a tired man against a fresh one, and equally unjust to give the holder only one chance for defeat while the challenger must necessarily have several.".
- His refusal contributed to the abandonment in 1912 of the Challenge Round system at the U.S.
- National Championships.Clarence Hobart died on August 2, 1930 as a result of an accident at a swimming pool in Asheville, NC.
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