Henry Wilfred "Bunny" Austin (August 26, 1906 – August 26, 2000) was a British tennis player. As of 2005 he was the last male British tennis player to reach the final of Wimbledon, achieving that in 1932 and 1938. He was also a finalist at the 1938 French Open. Along with Fred Perry, he was a vital part of the British team that won the Davis Cup three times from 1933-35. He is also remembered as the first tennis player to wear shorts. August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Tennis balls This article is about the sport, tennis. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wimbledon logo Wimbledon is the oldest and most prestigious event in the sport of tennis. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The French Open, officially the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (English: Roland Garros Tournament), is a tennis event held from the middle of May to the beginning of June in Paris, France, and is the second of the worlds Grand Slam tournaments. ... Frederick John Perry (May 18, 1909 - February 2, 1995) was an English tennis player and three-time Wimbledon champion. ... Davis Cup logo The Davis Cup is the international team event in mens tennis. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Austin was brought up in South Norwood, London. The nickname Bunny came from a comic strip, Wilfred. Encouraged by his father, who was determined that he become a sportsman, he joined Norhurst Tennis Club aged six. South Norwood is an area of South London, in the London Borough of Croydon. ... The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...

Tennis career

While still an undergraduate at Cambridge University he reached the semi-finals of the men's doubles at Wimbledon in 1926. By the 1930s he was ranked in the world's top ten players. In his first Wimbledon men's singles final in 1932 he was beaten by Ellsworth Vines of the United States in three sets. REDIRECT [1] ... Wimbledon logo Wimbledon is the oldest and most prestigious event in the sport of tennis. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Ellsworth Vines was a champion tennis player of the 1930s, in the opinion of Jack Kramer the greatest player who ever lived. ...

In 1933 he decided that the traditional tennis attire, cricket flannels, weighed him down too much. Instead he asked his tailor to create some prototype shorts. The same year he and Fred Perry helped win the Davis Cup for Britain. 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Frederick John Perry (May 18, 1909 - February 2, 1995) was an English tennis player and three-time Wimbledon champion. ... Davis Cup logo The Davis Cup is the international team event in mens tennis. ...

In his Wimbledon career Austin reached the quarter-finals or better ten times. In 1938 he played Don Budge in the final, but won only four games. The next year he was seeded first but lost in an early round. It was the last time he played at Wimbledon. 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... John Donald Budge (June 13, 1915 - January 26, 2000) was a champion tennis player who became famous as the first man to win in a single year the four tournaments that the Grand Slam of tennis comprises. ...

Personal

He married actress Phyllis Konstam in 1931, and together they were one of the celebrity couples of the age. Austin played tennis with Charlie Chaplin, was a friend of Daphne du Maurier, and met both Queen Mary and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Chaplin in his costume as The Tramp Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was the most famous actor in early to mid Hollywood cinema, and later also a notable director. ... Dame Daphne du Maurier DBE (May 13, 1907 – April 19, 1989) was one of the most successful Cornish novelists of all time. ... HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945), 32nd President of the United States, the longest-serving holder of the office and the only man to be elected President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. ...

Austin and his wife worked for the cause of the Oxford Group throughout the 1930s, promoting it in the United States during World War II. According to Austin's friend Peter Ustinov, Austin was "disgracefully ostracised by the All-England Club because he was a conscientious objector". His membership of the club was "lapsed" until being restored in 1984. Moral Re-Armament (MRA, or sometimes Buchmanism) is an international movement that was founded as the Oxford Group by Frank N. D. Buchman (a prominent Christian Evangelist from the United States), and a group of Oxford students in the 1920s. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe... Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov (born Peter Alexander von Ustinov) (April 16, 1921 – March 28, 2004) was a British-born and raised actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur. ... A conscientious objector is an individual whose personal beliefs are incompatible with military service, perhaps with any role in the armed forces or just with a particular war. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Austin's autobiography, A Mixed Double, was published in 1969. 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ...

After a serious fall in 1995 Austin moved to a nursing home at Coulsdon, Surrey. He died in 2000 on his 94th birthday. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Grid reference: TQ298596 Coulsdon is a place in the London Borough of Croydon on the Brighton Road (A23). ... Surrey is a county in southern England, one of the Home Counties. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...