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Post by JuliusHMarx Tue 23 Oct 2012, 7:26 pm

Sidney Wood is the only player to have won a slam by a walkover in the final - Wimbledon 1931.


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Post by bogbrush Tue 23 Oct 2012, 7:40 pm

Weak era.
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Post by JuliusHMarx Tue 23 Oct 2012, 7:44 pm

No, it was a deliberate ploy (allegedly) by the US Davis Cup captain, to rest his two Wimbledon finalists by having the other one, Frank Shields, withdraw from the final with an 'injury'.
But they still lost the ensuing Davis Cup tie to GB!

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Post by bogbrush Tue 23 Oct 2012, 8:18 pm

Should we really start threads about people controversially pulling out of Grand Slam matches?

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Post by JuliusHMarx Tue 23 Oct 2012, 8:27 pm

Fortunately this thread is limited to finals.

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Post by socal1976 Tue 23 Oct 2012, 10:22 pm

Amazing that Davis cup was seen to be more valuable than a slam by that Davis cup captain. Sounds like a counterproductive starategy I didn't know fitness was such an issue.

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Post by JuliusHMarx Tue 23 Oct 2012, 10:39 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/sports/tennis/14sidneywood.html

Wiki states it was an ankle injury to Shields. It would appear both Wood and Shields wanted to play the final, but Shields deferred to US tennis officials, who seem to have been desperate to win back the Davis Cup.

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