National Championships

Men's National Championship 1938, Fox Meadow Tennis Club, Scarsdale, NY
Men's National Championship 1938, Fox Meadow Tennis Club, Scarsdale, NY
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1938

Singles now had been discontinued. Blanchard had always maintained doubles suited the game of platform tennis best. The APTA confirmed this and found a low level of interest in both men’s and women’s singles and decided to discontinue these events in 1938. Men’s singles was reinstated in 1980.

Fox Meadow teams swept the remaining three National events and Charley and Virginia O’Hearn won their third straight Mixed title and the fourth in a row for Charley. Only two other team have won more than three consecutive Mixed Nationals – Ronald and Elfie Carroll (1949-1952) and Hilary Hilton Marold and Doug Russell (1979-1982).

Source: Fessenden S. Blanchard, Paddle Tennis, 1944