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Bunny Austin (Henry Wilfred Austin) was born on 26 August, 1906 in London, England, is an English tennis player. Discover Bunny Austin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?
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Henry Wilfred Austin |
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94 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Virgo |
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26 August 1906 |
Birthday |
26 August |
Birthplace |
London, England |
Date of death |
26 August, 2000 |
Died Place |
Coulsdon, London, England |
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London, England
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Bunny Austin Height, Weight & Measurements
At 94 years old, Bunny Austin height is 1.76 m .
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Bunny Austin Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Bunny Austin worth at the age of 94 years old? Bunny Austin’s income source is mostly from being a successful player. He is from London, England. We have estimated Bunny Austin's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Under Review |
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Henry Wilfred "Bunny" Austin (26 August 1906 – 26 August 2000 ) was an English tennis player.
While still an undergraduate at Cambridge University, he reached the semi-finals of the men's doubles at Wimbledon in 1926.
In 1931, A. Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph ranked Austin as the World No. 2. In his first Wimbledon men's singles final in 1932, he was beaten by Ellsworth Vines of the United States in three sets.
He married actress Phyllis Konstam in 1931, after meeting her in 1929 on a transatlantic liner while travelling for the US Open, 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, Ronald Colman, and Harold Lloyd, and met both Queen Mary and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
In 1932 he decided that the traditional tennis attire, cricket flannels, weighed him down too much.
He bought a pair of shorts to use at Forest Hills and subsequently became the first player to wear them at Wimbledon.
Austin reached the quarter finals or better at Wimbledon 10 times.
Along with Fred Perry, he was a vital part of the British team that won the Davis Cup in three consecutive years (1933–35).
He is also remembered as the first tennis player to wear shorts.
The son of stockjobber Wilfred Austin and his wife Kate, Austin was brought up in South Norwood, London.
Austin concluded that the nickname "Bunny", bestowed on him by school friends, came from the Daily Mirror comic strip Pip, Squeak and Wilfred (Wilfred was a rabbit, or bunny).
Encouraged by his father, who was determined that he become a sportsman, he joined Norhurst Tennis Club aged six.
Austin was educated at Repton School, and studied history at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
In the years 1933–1936 he and Fred Perry helped to win the Davis Cup for Britain.
In 1933, concerned by increasing threats of a renewal of European, and indeed wider, war, Austin became involved in the Oxford Group, later Moral Re-Armament, speaking on public platforms and writing press articles.
He and Fred Perry were the only players to raise their voice, in a letter to The Times, against the Nazi ban on Jews joining the German team for the Davis Cup.
According to Austin's friend Peter Ustinov, Austin was "disgracefully ostracised by the All-England Club because he was a conscientious objector".
In fact, soon after British declaration of the Second World War, before the question whether he might register as an objector arose, he accepted an invitation from Frank Buchman, Oxford Group founder, for a speaking tour of the US, and went, with the apparently overt approval of the British government.
Austin also popularized modern tennis racquet design by using and endorsing the 'Streamline' – a racquet invented by F.W. (Frank Wordsworth) Donisthorpe (patented in Great Britain in 1934) with a shaft that splits into three segments – allowing for aerodynamic movement.
The design was manufactured by Hazells and at the time was mocked in the press for looking like a snow shoe.
He was also a finalist at the 1937 French Championships and a championship winner at Queen's Club.
At Wimbledon 1938 Austin beat Henkel but won just four games in the final against Don Budge, who was at the peak of his form and went on to win the Grand Slam.
At Wimbledon 1939 Austin was top seed, but lost early.
It was his last appearance at Wimbledon.
In 1943, with the extension of US conscription to Allied resident citizens, he was drafted into the US Army Air Force, but a diagnosis of Gilbert's Syndrome (periodic malfunction of the liver) precluded him from combat service, and he was discharged in 1945.
The syndrome explained his occasional and sudden fatigue on the court.
After Austin's retirement, the design was virtually forgotten until the reintroduction of the split shaft in the late 1960s.
When he returned to Britain in 1961, a voting member of the Membership Committee of the All-England Club who had been removed from the Cambridge tennis team during Austin's captaincy used Austin's alleged proselytism for the Oxford Group as an excuse for denying him reinstatement in the All-England Club after a lapse of dues payment.
Austin's autobiography, written with his wife, A Mixed Double, was published in 1969.
His membership of the club was restored in 1984, the year the obstructing member died.
After a serious fall in 1995, Austin moved to a nursing home in Coulsdon, London.
Austin was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1997.
He died in 2000 on his 94th birthday.
His grave is in the village churchyard of Stoke St Gregory in Somerset.
Just 56 days before his death, Austin had joined other past Wimbledon champions and finalists on Wimbledon's Centre Court for a pre-millennium parade of champions.
For 74 years he was the last Briton to reach the final of the men's singles at Wimbledon, until Andy Murray did so in 2012.
He would be the last British man to reach the final of Wimbledon until Andy Murray in 2012.