23 Facts About Vic Seixas

In 1953, Vic Seixas was ranked No 3 in the world by Lance Tingay.

In 1954 Vic Seixas was ranked amateur number one by Harry Hopman.

Vic Seixas won both Wimbledon and the US Open in singles.

Vic Seixas won the Australian Open, French Open, and US Open in doubles, and the French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open in mixed doubles.

Vic Seixas was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic Hall of Fame, the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame, and the Southern Conference Hall of Fame.

Vic Seixas is reported to be Jewish by a number of sources, but was raised Presbyterian.

Vic Seixas attended and graduated from the William Penn Charter School, where he was a tennis star.

Vic Seixas served as a pilot in the United States Army Air Corps in World War II for three years, which interrupted his tennis career.

Vic Seixas then attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of Alpha Sigma of the Chi Psi fraternity.

Vic Seixas graduated in 1949, the same year that UNC awarded him the Patterson Medal, the school's top medal in athletics.

Vic Seixas entered the US Championships men's singles a record 28 times between 1940 and 1969.

Vic Seixas was ranked in the top ten in the US 13 times from 1942 to 1956.

In 1953, Vic Seixas was ranked No 3 in the world by Lance Tingay and was cited as being the World No 1 in the Reading Eagle the same year.

Vic Seixas won four consecutive mixed doubles crowns at Wimbledon from 1953 to 1956, the first three with Doris Hart and the fourth with Shirley Fry; the US National mixed doubles from 1953 to 1955, all with Doris Hart; and the French Championships mixed doubles in 1953 with Doris Hart.

Vic Seixas is rated fifth in the category of most Davis Cup Singles matches, just behind Bill Tilden and Arthur Ashe.

Vic Seixas served three times as Captain of the US Davis Cup team.

Vic Seixas was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971.

Vic Seixas was inducted into the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic Hall of Fame.

Vic Seixas was inducted into Class II of the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.

Vic Seixas was inducted into the Southern Conference Hall of Fame in 2011.

Vic Seixas was a stockbroker from the late 1950s until the early 1970s.

Vic Seixas moved to California in 1989, where he lived in Mill Valley and established a tennis program at the Harbor Point Racquet and Beach Club in Mill Valley, now known as The Club at Harbor Point.

Vic Seixas is currently the oldest living Grand Slam singles champion in the world, and the oldest living member of the Tennis Hall of Fame.