Beals Coleman Wright (December 19, 1879 – August 23, 1961), was an American male tennis

Tennis

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 player.
Beals was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Cincinnati Red Stockings

Cincinnati Red Stockings

The Cincinnati Red Stockings of were baseball's first fully professional team, with ten salaried players. The Cincinnati Base Ball Club formed in 1866 and fielded competitive teams in the National Association of Base Ball Players 1867–1870, a time of a transition that ambitious Cincinnati,...

 great George Wright and nephew of Cincinnati Red Stockings team founder Harry Wright

Harry Wright

William Henry "Harry" Wright was an English-born American professional baseball player, manager, and developer. He assembled, managed, and played center field for baseball's first fully professional team, the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings...

. In 1890 Beals Wright travelled with his father George to California where he played at the Delmonte Tennis Championship in Monterey. George Wright managed the team the same year he coached at Harvard. Two Harvard University players participated in the DelMonte Torurnament-the first time east coast players took on California tennis champions. (Source:David Sentance, SCCA Cricket historian-research in progress.)

Wright played at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics and won two gold medals. He also won three consecutive singles titles (1904–1906) at the tournament now known as the Cincinnati Masters

Cincinnati Masters

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, and reached the doubles final (with Edgar Leonard) in 1904.

Wright was inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame

International Tennis Hall of Fame

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 in 1956. He died in Alton, Illinois

Alton, Illinois

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U.S. Championships

U.S. Open (tennis)

The US Open, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881...

• Singles champion: 1905
• Singles finalist: 1901, 1906, 1908
• Doubles champion: 1904, 1905, 1906
• Doubles finalist: 1901, 1908, 1918