Tingay, Lance

Lance Tingay
Born: July 15, 1915
Hometown: London, United Kingdom
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Inducted: 1982

Contributions
Daily Telegraph     Lawn Tennis Correspondent     1952-80

History of Lawn Tennis in Pictures

One Hundred Years of Wimbledon

Royalty and Lawn Tennis

1968 Allison Danzig Award Recipient

As the dean of a sizeable platoon of British tennis writers of his time, Lance Tingay, friendly, erudite, helpful to colleagues, covered the game for a half-century, present as it evolved from amateur into the open and highly professional era. He covered his first Wimbledon in 1932 and was the thorough, informed and informative tennis correspondent for “The Daily Telegraph” of London from 1950 to 1980, writing his dispatches from across the world.

Ever good humored, even while pounding his typewriter on deadline, he was a leading historian of the game, the author of “History of Lawn Tennis in Pictures”, “One Hundred Years of Wimbledon”, and “Royalty and Lawn Tennis”, and he wrote for numerous tennis publications and yearbooks. Tingay was born in London July 15, 1915 and died there March 10, l990. He was named to the Hall of Fame in 1982.

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