Harry Austin Kitson (17 June 1874 – 30 November 1951) was a male

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

player from

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who won a gold medal at the men's doubles event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Tennis career

Kitson competed in the singles and doubles events at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. In the singles event he had a bye in the first round and lost in straight sets to

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in the second round. In the doubles he was partnered by Victor Gauntlett and reached the quarterfinals where

Clement Cazalet Clement Haughton Langston Cazalet (16 July 1869 – 23 March 1950) was a British tennis player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was the son among 10 children of businessman William Clement Cazalet (brother of Edward Cazalet) a ...

and Charles P. Dixon proved too strong. Kitson was more successful at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm winning two medals. He won the gold medal in the men's doubles event together with Charles Lindhurst Winslow, defeating the Austrian team Arthur Zborzil / Fritz Pipes in the final. In the men's singles tournament he won a silver medal after losing in the final to his doubles partner in four sets. Kitson won the South African Championships in 1905, 1908, 1911 and 1913 and was runner–up in 1909 and 1910 to respectively

Reginald Doherty Reginald "Reggie" or "R. F." Frank Doherty (14 October 1872 – 29 December 1910) was a British tennis player and the older brother of tennis player Laurence Doherty. He was known in the tennis world as "R.F." rather than "Reggie".

and

Anthony Wilding Anthony Frederick Wilding (31 October 1883 – 9 May 1915), also known as Tony Wilding, was a New Zealand world No. 1 tennis player and soldier who was killed in action during World War I. Considered the world's first tennis superstar, Wildin ...

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Olympics profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kitson, Harold 1874 births 1951 deaths South African male tennis players English emigrants to South Africa Olympic tennis players of South Africa Tennis players at the 1908 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for South Africa Olympic silver medalists for South Africa Olympic medalists in tennis Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics