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Robert "Bob" Duffield Wrenn (September 20, 1873– November 21, 1925) was a left-handed American tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player, four-time U.S. singles championship

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...

 winner, and one of the first "enshrinees" in the International Tennis Hall of Fame

International Tennis Hall of Fame

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Wrenn was born in Highland Park

Highland Park, Illinois

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, Illinois

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. He won his titles in 1893, 1894, 1896 and 1897 (losing out to Fred Hovey in 1895). In 1898, he was serving in Cuba

Cuba

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 with Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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's Rough Riders

Rough Riders

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 in the Spanish-American war

Spanish-American War

The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence...

. He contracted yellow fever

Yellow fever

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 while in Cuba.

He was arrested in 1914 when his car ran over and killed Herbert George Loveday, the choir director of St Mary's Church, in Tuxedo Park, New York

Tuxedo Park, New York

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Wrenn was president

President

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 of the United States Tennis Association

United States Tennis Association

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 from 1912 until 1915, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1955.

U.S. Championships

• Singles champion: 1893, 1894, 1896, 1897
• Singles finalist: 1895
• Doubles champion: 1895
• Doubles finalist: 1896

Wins (4)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1893	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...	Fred Hovey	6–4, 3–6, 6–4, 6–4
1894	U.S. Championships (2)	Manliff Goodbody Manliff Goodbody Manliff Goodbody was a tennis player from the United States. He finished runner-up to Robert Wrenn at the U.S. National Championships in 1894, and also lost the Queen's Club Championships in London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland the following year.-U.S. National championships:*...	6–8, 6–1, 6–4, 6–4
1896	U.S. Championships (3)	Fred Hovey	7–5, 3–6, 6–0 ,1–6, 6–1
1897	U.S. Championships (4)	Wilberforce Eaves Wilberforce Eaves Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves was a male tennis player from the United Kingdom. At the 1908 London Olympics he won a bronze medal in the men's singles tournament. He was also the first non-American to reach the final in the US National Singles Championships in 1897.-Runner-ups :...	4–6, 8–6, 6–3, 2–6, 6–2

Runner-ups (1)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1895	U.S. Championships	Fred Hovey	6–3, 6–2, 6–4