Alexander, Frederik

Frederik Beasley Alexander
Born: August 14, 1880
Died: March 03, 1969
Hometown: Seabright, New Jersey, United States
Citizenship: United States
Handed: Right
Inducted: 1961

Grand Slam Record
Australian  Singles 1908
   Doubles 1908
U.S. Doubles finalist 1900, 1906, 1911, 1918
   Doubles 1907-10, 1917
   Mixed finalist  1918
 U.S. Indoor Doubles 1906-08, 1911-12, 1917
Tournament Record
Davis Cup Team Member 1908
 
 Intercollegiate  Singles 1901
    Doubles 1900

As the first foreigner to win the Australian titles, Frederick Beasley Alexander beat Alf Dunlop in 1908 and joined with native Dunlop to take the doubles, too. That year he and Beals Wright were the U.S. Davis Cup team in an unsuccessful attempt to pry the Cup away from Australia (Norman Brookes and Tony Wilding), 3-2 in Melbourne. He lost a tough opener to Brookes, 6-3 in the fifth, and the decisive match to Wilding in three. Right-handed, a New Yorker and Princeton man, he won the U.S. Intercollegiate singles (1901) and doubles (1900).

He ranked six times in the U.S. Top Ten between 1904 and 1918, the last, at 38, his highest, No. 3 in 1908. He was Harold Hackett’s partner in a standout doubles team, U.S. finalists a record seven straight times, beginning in 1905, winning in 1907, 1908, 1909 and 1910. In 1917, at 37, he won a fifth U.S. title, shepherding 19-year-old Harold Throckmorton to the doubles championship. Lean and lanky, a smooth stroker, he was born in New York August 14, 1880, and died in Beverly Hills, CA, March 3, 1969. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1961.

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