Don Hyde (1926 – 1998)

As a team, Don Hyde and Bob Brown won eight Senior titles
As a team, Don Hyde and Bob Brown won eight Senior titles

Just 118 days earlier, Don had won the Men’s 70+ Nationals.

The “Hyde Cup” was anonymously gifted to the APTA in his memory.

He had been battling cancer for many years, but always found a way to bounce back after various operations to win nine Senior National titles in the 60+, 65+, and 70+ between 1988 and 1999.

He had been an outstanding athlete at Lawrenceville School and Princeton, and excelled at tennis.

He had been awarded the Bronze Star for heroism in the Battle of the Bulge in WW II.

Source: Platform Tennis News, Summer & Fall 1998