Quist, Adrian

Adrian Karl Quist
Born: August 04, 1913
Died: November 17, 1991
Hometown: Medindia, S. Australia, Australia
Citizenship: Australia
Inducted: 1984

Grand Slam Record
GRAND SLAM RECORD
Australian     Singles     1936, 40, 48
Singles finalist     1939
Doubles     1936-40, 46-50
Doubles finalist     1934, 51

French     Doubles     1935
Doubles finalist     1933
Mixed finalist     1934

Wimbledon     Doubles     1935, 50

U.S.     Doubles     1939
Doubles finalist     1938

Tournament Record
TOURNAMENT RECORD
Italian     Mixed     1950

Davis Cup     Team Member     1933-39, 46, 48

Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1984 as the left-court half of the great Australian doubles team of Bromwich and Quist, Adrian Karl Quist also won three major singles, the Australian, 1936, 1940 and 1948. Quist was the only man to win a major before and after World War II, in which he served in the Australian army.

He was also the only man to win a Wimbledon title before and after, doubles with Jack Crawford in 1935, and with Brom in 1950. It seemed fitting that the two old comrades who wreaked so much damage together should meet in the last Aussie singles final with a pre-war flavor, 1948, before the kids led by Frank Sedgman took over. And that it should go to the wire on a sweltering afternoon at Kooyong. Quisty scraped and scraped to hold onto serve to 3-3 in the fifth then won the last three games from Brom.

His 13 Australian titles are high for that tournament, and he holds major doubles records: most titles, 10, and most with one partner, eight, alongside Jack Bromwich. They won those eight successively, also a record, between 1938 a 1950. Quist also won in 1936 and 1937 with Don Turnbull for a personal 10-straight, also a record.

He and Brom registered a unique triumph in lifting the Davis Cup from the U.S. in 1939. Losing their singles the first day in Philadelphia (Quist to Frank Parker, 7-5 in the fifth), they began the unparalleled comeback by beating Jack Kramer and Joe Hunt in a four-set doubles, even though they lost the first set and trailed 1-3 in third. Hunt led 3-2, 30-15 on serve in the third when the turnabout began. Quist, a short (5-foot-61/2), bouncy right-hander with an all-court game and telling volleys, then hung on after losing the third and fourth sets to beat Wimbledon champ Bobby Riggs, 6-1, 6-4, 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, even though Riggs saved a match point at 5-2 and reached 4-5. Bromwich beat Frank Parker in a groundstroking duel to ice it in the fifth match.

Quist and Bromwich won the U.S. doubles too, in 1939, and, well beyond expectations, took their lone Wimbledon crown together in 1950, beating Billy Sidwell and Geoff Brown, 6-2 in the fifth. Quisty was within a month of his 37th birthday, Brom 31. Having won the French title with Jack Crawford in 1935, Quist–holder of 17 majors altogether–was one of 11 to win all four in doubles. Quist first appeared in the World Top Ten in 1936 at No. 4, No. 6 in 1938 and No. 3 in 1939. He was born August 4, 1913, in Medindia, South Australia, and died November 17, 1991, in Sydney.

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