Fred Perry

See also: Perry

Frederick John Perry (May 18th 1909 - February 2nd 1995 with Melbourne, Australia) was a player of Tennis English. It was born with Stockport, in the county of the Cheshire, in England. It gained three times Wimbledon and was the first player to gain the four tournaments of the Grand Slam consecutively, although not in the same year. The great champion Jack Kramer wrote in his autobiography (1979) that Perry was one of the six best players of all times, just after Ellsworth Vines and Don Budge, and of the same level of Bill Tilden, Bobby Riggs, and Pancho Gonzales. And better, notably, than Rod Laver.

At the end of the Forties, Fred Perry joins Tibby Wegner (Australian football player) to create a mark of clothing to the glory of the tennis player. The first product will be the invention of the handle sponges conceived in the same matter as the bath towels. The mark Fred Perry is launched. It will manufacture the other clothing intended for tennis. The mark will be identifiable by the presence of a laurel wreath embroidered side heart on each product. It will launch the famous sports shirt to bands of colors contrasting on the collar and the handles which will become very popular in England.

Fred Perry will equip more than 90% with the tennis players in the years 50-60. The great champions of the time raised the white tunic of the mark with the initial ones of the names of the players embroidered under the bay-tree.

The mark will become famous in the world. The sports shirt Fred Perry will be even one of the preferred articles of the guard of dress of John F. Kennedy and much of other celebrities of the time (actors, actors, kings, etc…)

This sports shirt will be the element emblematic of the Mods, the skinheads English, and various other youth movements.

The mark will suffer much from the counterfeit in the Seventies.

The mark will pass between the hands of several investors (Australian, American). As from 1996, it will become partner of a group of Japanese textile (which also works for the Puma mark). This partnership becomes paying because the mark finds a second breath thanks to the Japanese market and Asian.

Today, the mark is always also active and multiplies the experiments " fashion" by giving freehand with its collection " Blank Canvas" with creators more for moment. It also joins mysterious but talented the creative Japanese woman Rei Kawakubo and her mark of high-seam to create collections.

Fred Perry makes a return noticed as an equipment supplier of professional tennis, with the Scottish player Andy Murray. Fred Perry was also equipment supplier clothing of the stable of F1 Williams-Renault of 1992 to 1994 with the championship of the world for a British: Nigel Mansell.

It should be noted that before practicing Tennis, he was also world champion of Table tennis into simple in 1929.

Titles

Simple

World champion of Table tennis: 1929
Open of Australia: 1934
Roland Garros: Winner in 1935: Finalist in 1936: Quarterfinal in 1932,1933,1934: eighth of finale in 1931
Tournament of Wimbledon: 1934,1935, 1936
US Open: 1933, 1934 1936
US Pro Victorious Championship

- 1938 & 1941
Finalist - 1939 & 1940

Double

of Australia: 1934
Roland Garros: 1936

Mixed doubles

Roland Garros: 1932
Wimbledon: 1935,1936
: 1932

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