Brame Hillyard (23 August 1876 – 18 June 1959) was a British

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player. He was a three time quarter finalist at the

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in singles in 1903 and in doubles in 1900 and 1904. He also competed at the 1923 World Hard Court Championships where he lost in the fourth round to

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. He was active from 1897 to 1938 and won 11 career singles titles.

Career

Brame was born in

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, in 1876. Hillyard is notable for being the first tennis player to appear at Wimbledon wearing shorts rather than trousers.Wimbledon - A potted history
/ref> He did so in 1930 on Court 10. Bunny Austin, three years later, was the first male player to do so on Centre Court. Hillyard reached the quarter-finals of the event in

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. He competed at the 1923 World Hard Court Championships where he lost in the fourth round to

. He played his first tournament in 1897 at the Gipsy Championships where he reached the semi finals. He won his first title in 1901 at the Bournemouth Open Tournament against Edward Yatman. His other career singles highlights included winning the Sheffield and Hallamshire Championships (1922), the Marseille International (1922), Bexhill-on-Sea Open (1923), the Hampshire Lawn Tennis Championships (1923). He also won the Cannes Métropole Hotel Championship (1923), the Beausoleil Championships in

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(1923), East Grinstead Open (1924), the

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(1925) in Newport, the Aix-Les-Bains International (1927). His final title was at the Cannes Beau Site New Year Meeting in 1929. and his final singles event was the Cannes Championships in 1938. He died in

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, England, in 1959.

References

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