Welby Van Horn

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Welby Van Horn
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Sidney Welby Van Horn (September 8, 1920 - September 17, 2014)

tennis player
and tennis coach.

As a 19-year-old player, Van Horn reached the finals of the

United States Pro Championship in 1945. He was ranked as high as World No. 5 in the professional ranks (the Professional Players Association, instated by Bill Tilden) in 1946. Gordon Lowe ranked Van Horn as World No. 9 for 1939 in his amateur rankings.[3]

He lived briefly in Atlanta, Ga., where he had been hired as Head Tennis Professional at the Piedmont Driving Club. In 1951, he moved to Puerto Rico as a coach at the Caribe Hilton Swim and Tennis Club, where he worked with many promising juniors, the most notable being Charlie Pasarell who was ranked No.1 in the U.S. in 1967 who he continued to coach on the main tour, another notable junior was Manuel Diaz, later to become a star on the University of Georgia tennis team and UGA coach.

His career as a coach spawned institutions such as the Welby Van Horn Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, Florida, and Welby Van Horn Tennis programs in a number of locations.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Sidney VAN HORN Obituary (1920 - 2014) - West Palm Beach, FL - The Palm Beach Post". Legacy.com.
  2. OCLC 172306
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  3. ^ United States Lawn Tennis Association (1972). Official Encyclopedia of Tennis (First Edition), p. 425.
  4. ^ Sports Illustrated article
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