Frank Hadow

Patrick Francis Hadow was born in January 24, 1855 in Regent's Park, England and died on June 29 1946 in Bridgewater, Somerset, England. Patrick is commonly known as “Frank” or “Frank Hadow” in the tennis industry at the height o his career.

He is a renowned English tennis player that garnered several victories in his many matches and tournaments against other great tennis players. In 1878, Frank had his win in the Wimbledon championship. He was also considered as one of the toughest Wimbledon champion that first presented the first ever “lob-to-thwart-bring-down-volleyer” and also a remarkable tennis player Spencer Gore. His match against Gore was in the Wimbledon Men's Final in 1878 that then dropped Gore in the second place.

Frank also played tennis matches while on a holiday at his coffee farm at Ceylon and then went ahead to face his opponents at the Wimbledon whilst. However, he failed to keep his title and later on went back to Wimbledon almost half a century to take a hold of his commemorative medal due to his being one of the oldest and surviving champion which was given by the Queen Mary.

Franks father was Patrick Douglas Hadow who went to Harrow School and Balliol College Oxford University for his education. Also, Frank went to the Harrow School together with six of his brothers, out of the seven. The seven Hadow boys were also called “Harrow Hadows”. Even Frank’s brothers were known to be great cricketers and Frank himself introduced the Harrow at rackets.

Aside from being a famed tennis enthusiast, Frank was also known for his hunter instincts on his big games. By “big games”, this means the real life big game hunter hunting in the wilds of Africa in the 20th century. Also, Frank has had his own listings in the several categories of the Rowland Ward “Records of Big Game” in 1928. This recognition also includes his sable antelope ranking trophies, Cape buffalo, eland categories, and Uganda kob.