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Jack Arkinstall
Jack Arkinstall (born in May 1920 in Australia) was an Australian tennis player.
Arkinstall came from a poor family, however his father laid a private tennis court on the property of the family farm. He was asked in 1959 by tennis promoter Jack Kramer to become a professional tennis player.〔http://2014.ausopen.com/en_AU/event_guide/history/players/532.html〕 He was about the same age as two other Australian players, Bill Sidwell and Dinny Pails.
==Amateur ==
Arkinstall had a lengthy amateur tennis player, and traveled the world. He won numerous matches and international tennis tournaments, however never reached the top of his country.〔http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42547274〕〔http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Ar/J/Jack-Arkinstall.aspx〕 At Wimbledon, he reached the fourth round in 1953 when he was in the fifth set against in his compatriot Ken Rosewall, whom he had lost against previously. At Wimbledon in 1954 Arkinstall lost in the first round against the eventual Wimbledon champion, Yugoslav Jaroslav Drobny.〔http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/draws/archive/players/9f3b2b66-9f4d-4c3b-8740-71965d6e75d3/index.html〕 Highlights from Arkinstall's time at Wimbledon in 1954 can be seen in a video published by British Pathé.〔http://www.britishpathe.com/video/wimbledon-opens/query/Drobny〕 He competed again in 1955 at Wimbledon, this time reaching the third round to fall back against Drobny. At Wimbledon in 1956, Arkinstall lost to the eventual semi-finalist, American Ham Richardson. In his last appearance at Wimbledon 1957, he lost in the first round in a large defeat against the Briton Mike Davies.〔http://www.tennisarchives.com/player.php?playerid=158〕
He never won the Australian Open Championships or any other Grand Slam tournament. Once he played against Rosewall in his professional career and lost narrowly in the final, fifth set. Arkinstall broke through late into international tennis. In 1950, when he was thirty years old, he played his first international tennis tournament. In 1954 Arkinstall won in the finals against the number one player from India: Ramanathan Krishnan. The Yugoslavian Championships he won that year by the strong Yugoslav and number one in his country Jaroslav Drobny. In an indoor tournament India Krishnan revenged himself by winning the final against Arkinstall. In 1956 played Arkinstall the Nation Cup for his country - he lost the men's doubles match with Lew Hoad against his Italian opponents Guiseppo Merlo and Orlando Sirola (numbers two).
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