Ernie Parker

Ernie F. Parker was born in November 5, 1883 in Perth Australia. He was a former tennis player and is best remembered for winning the 1913 Australian Championships men’s singles title. He also won the 1909 partnering J. Keane and 1913 partnering Alf Hedeman in Australian Championship double titles.
In his sports career, during the Grand Slam singles finals, he got a score of 2–6, 6–1, 6–2, 6–3 with Harry Parker as the Final Opponent during the Australian Championship. During the finalist, with Tony Wilding as the opponent, he got a score of 1–6, 5–7, 2–6. He is also considered as the great tennis player in their place.

Aside from being a tennis player, he has been coaching and pitching lessons for about 30 years. Parker coached and worked with one team from California where he won 9 ASA National Championships at all level. And during that time, he also taught pitchers from other travel teams who has also won National Championships. Mr. Parker had gone to work also with Americans at many top universities and instructed pitchers in places such as Peru, Canada, Mainland China, Spain, Holland, Hawaii, Alaska, and Italy.