J.F.Foulkes

Full name: John Fortescue Foulkes
Nickname: Captain, JF
Alias: Capt. Foulkes
Captain Foulkes

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Bio	He was an early star of Canadian tennis. Foulkes may have been a three-time winner of the Canadian national championship, which is known as the Rogers Cup/National Bank Open. He was also a member of the Canadian team which reached the finals of the Davis Cup. Foulkes was born in Middlesex, England, the second of six children born to Rev. Augustine Lempriere Foulkes and Francesca Forster (née Godfrey). His father, who had been a cricket player, earned a doctorate at Queen's College, Oxford and was the vicar of Steventon. He had three brothers (Godfrey, Louis and Leonard) and two sisters (Francesca and Catherine). He moved to Canada as a teenager in 1891, and quickly began winning tournaments. A member of the Victoria Lawn Tennis Club, Foulkes may have captured the Canadian national championship in singles 1907, 1909, and 1910 - at least one source says otherwise however. His 1907 win, if it did occur, broke a string of 13 consecutive wins by an American player and only the second for a Canadian in 18 years. The source that disputes that Foulkes won his titles claims he was, instead, runner-up in 1907 and again in 1908. He competed in the men's singles and doubles events at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Foulkes along with fellow Victoria natives B. P. Schwengers, R. B. Powell and Victoria-based Henry Mayes reached the final of the 1913 Davis Cup in the country's first attempt. (All four players were members of the Victoria LTC.) With the entire tournament played at Wimbledon in June–July, the upstart Canadians, with Powell and Schwengers playing each match, beat South Africa, 4 wins to 1 and then Belgium, 4-0, to reach the final. In the final, however, they were overwhelmed by the Americans losing each set of three matches they contested. Foulkes was also an eight-time British Columbia, five-time Pacific Northwest champion (in Tacoma), and two-time Washington State champion (in Seattle). He was ranked No. 1 singles in the USTA Pacific Northwest in 1914. Foulkes has been elected to both the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame as a member of the 1913 Davis Cup team. He was also elected to USTA Pacific Northwest Tennis Hall of Fame in 2008.
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Tournament	AO	RG	W	US	Win-Loss
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3	GS Appearances Representing The Same Nation
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6	Years Between The First And Last GS Appearance
7	Decades Between The First And Last GS Appearance
8	GS Final Appearances
9	GS Final Appearances Representing The Same Nation
10	Represented different nations in the GS Finals
11	Years Between 2 GS Final Appearances
12	Years Between The First And Last GS Final Appearance
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14	GS Titles