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TENNIS PLAYER

Richard Sears

1861 - 1943

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Richard Dudley Sears (October 26, 1861 – April 8, 1943) was an American tennis player, who won the US National Championships singles in its first seven years, from 1881 to 1887, and the doubles for six years from 1882 to 1887, after which he retired from tennis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Sears has received more than 15,404 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Richard Sears is the 83rd most popular tennis player (down from 69th in 2019), the 4,615th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,238th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Tennis Player.

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  • 21

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  • 4.17

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  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Richard Sears ranks 83 out of 1,148Before him are André Prévost, Jack Crawford, André Gobert, Gustavo Kuerten, Thomas Muster, and Maureen Connolly. After him are Carlos Moyá, Juan Martín del Potro, Adriano Panatta, Vincent Richards, Gaël Monfils, and Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Richard Sears ranks 91Before him are Paul Ranson, Ludwig Thuille, József Rippl-Rónai, Saovabha Phongsri, Lucien Simon, and Fanny Brate. After him are Shirase Nobu, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Hannes Hafstein, Makino Nobuaki, Frederic Remington, and Ernest Renshaw. Among people deceased in 1943, Richard Sears ranks 121Before him are Erich Bey, A. Merritt, W. S. Van Dyke, René de Saussure, Charley Paddock, and Azim Azimzade. After him are Rutka Laskier, Gyula Peidl, Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, Radclyffe Hall, Eugeniusz Bodo, and Curt Haase.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Sears ranks 4,615 out of 18,182Before him are Carl Bernstein (1944), Robert H. Dicke (1916), Michael Kahn (1935), Elizabeth Perkins (1960), Richard Kiley (1922), and Gary Hart (1936). After him are Herman Wouk (1915), Melinda Culea (1955), Joseph Grew (1880), Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Alice Neel (1900), and Perry King (1948).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United States

Among tennis players born in United States, Richard Sears ranks 19Before him are Darlene Hard (1936), Bobby Riggs (1918), Doris Hart (1925), Vitas Gerulaitis (1954), Michael Chang (1972), and Maureen Connolly (1934). After him are Vincent Richards (1903), Jack Kramer (1921), Roscoe Tanner (1951), Jim Courier (1970), Shirley Fry (1927), and Helen Wills (1905).