J. F. Foulkes

J.F. Foulkes

1913 Davis Cup team with J. F. Foulkes to the right
Full name James F. Foulkes
Country (sports)  Canada
Born 1872
Singles
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon 3R (1908)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games 3R (1908)
Team competitions
Davis Cup F (1913)

James 'J.F.' Foulkes (born 1872, date of death unknown) was an early star of Canadian tennis. Foulkes may have been a three-time winner of the Canadian national championship, today known as the Rogers Cup. He was also a member of the only Canadian team to reach the finals of the Davis Cup.

A member of the Victoria Lawn Tennis Club, Foulkes may have captured the Canadian national championship in singles 1907, 1909, and 1910 - at least one source says otherwise however.[1] His 1907 win, if it did occur, broke a string of 13 consecutive wins by an American player and only the second for a Canadian in 18 years. The source that disputes that Foulkes won his titles claims he was, instead, runner-up in 1907 and again in 1908.

He competed in the men's singles and doubles events at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[2]

Foulkes along with fellow Victoria natives B. P. Schwengers, R. B. Powell and Victoria-based Henry Mayes reached the final of the 1913 Davis Cup in the country's first attempt. (All four players were members of the Victoria LTC.[3]) With the entire tournament played at Wimbledon in June–July, the upstart Canadians, with Powell and Schwengers playing each match, beat South Africa, 4 wins to 1 and then Belgium, 4-0, to reach the final. In the final, however, they were overwhelmed by the Americans losing each set of three matches they contested.

Foulkes was also a British Columbia, five-time Pacific Northwest champion, and two-time Washington State champion. He was ranked No. 1 singles in the USTA Pacific Northwest in 1914.[4]

Foulkes has been elected to both the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame and USTA Pacific Northwest Tennis Hall of Fame.

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ "J. F. Foulkes Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 January 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  4. ↑ Hall-of-Fame-and-Historical - | USTA Pacific Northwest

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