1. Adrian Karl Quist was an Australian tennis player.
14 Facts About Adrian Quist
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Adrian Quist's father was Karl Quist, who had been a noted interstate cricketer, and owned a sporting goods store at the time of his son's birth.
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Adrian Quist was a three-time Australian Championships men's singles champion but is primarily remembered today as a great doubles player.
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Adrian Quist won 10 consecutive Australian doubles titles between 1936 and 1950, the last eight together with John Bromwich and he was one of the winners of a "Career Doubles Slam".
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Adrian Quist was ranked World No 3 in singles in 1939 and World No 4 in 1936.
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Adrian Quist's most famous singles win was a crucial singles match in the 1939 Davis Cup Challenge Round at Merion Cricket Club against the US, defeating world No 1 Bobby Riggs in a close five set match in the fourth rubber.
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Adrian Quist had a dink backhand that was better for doubles than singles, and a classic forehand drive with a natural sink.
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Adrian Quist was fine at the net, volley and forehand.
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Adrian Quist worked for Dunlop, where he designed the Dunlop Volley tennis shoe which is still in production.
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Adrian Quist was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1984.
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Adrian Quist held the most Davis Cup victories by any Australian until Lleyton Hewitt surpassed that record on 18 September 2010 in Cairns.
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Adrian Quist died in Sydney, New South Wales in 1991, aged 78.
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Adrian Quist is the uncle of fashion designer Neville Quist, founding director of Saville Row.
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Adrian and Sylvia Quist had two children but the marriage was not successful.