{{Short description|British tennis player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Cyril Eames | image = | fullname = Cyril Gladstone Eames | country_represented = {{Flagu|Great Britain}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1890|10|20|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1974|08|01|1890|10|20|df=yes}} | death_place = | height = | plays = Right-handed | careerprizemoney = | singlesrecord = | singlestitles = | highestsinglesranking = | FrenchOpenresult = 2R (1925) | Wimbledonresult = 2R (1925, 1926, 1927, 1928) | doublesrecord = | doublestitles = | highestdoublesranking = | WimbledonDoublesresult = QF (1926, 1927, 1928) | FrenchOpenDoublesresult = SF (1925) | FrenchOpenMixedresult = 2R (1925) | WimbledonMixedresult = QF (1925) }} '''Cyril Gladstone Eames''' (20 October 1890 – 1 August 1974) was a British tennis player.
The son of Charles Gladstone Eames who was also a tennis player, he was most active in the 1920s and made the Wimbledon singles second round four times.<ref>{{cite news |title=Eame's Tennis Trophies |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003221/19291110/210/0015 |work=Civil and Military Gazette |date=10 November 1929}}</ref>
It was his doubles partnership with Gordon Crole-Rees that he was most known for. The pair won the British Covered Court Championships, twice made the Wimbledon doubles quarter-finals and were doubles semi-finalists at the 1925 French Championships, where they lost in five sets to Jean Borotra and René Lacoste.<ref>{{cite news |title=MLLE. Lenglen's Lawn Tennis Triumph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/895810126 |work=Birmingham Post |date=8 June 1925}}</ref> They featured together in the 1928 and 1929 International Lawn Tennis Challenge (Davis Cup) campaigns, winning four of their five doubles rubbers.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Draw – Player's Chances |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003341/19260626/097/0022 |work=The Gentlewoman |date=26 June 1926}}</ref> In their only loss, to Italy in the 1928 Europe Zone semi-final, they had held match points<ref>{{cite news |title=Britain Beaten |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003213/19280622/256/0014 |work=Daily News (London) |date=22 June 1928}}</ref>
In 1931 he announced his intention to retire from the tour.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cyril Eames, Noted English Net Star, Plans to Retire |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/499322198 |work=The Province |date=5 April 1931}}</ref>
==See also== *List of Great Britain Davis Cup team representatives
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{ATP|e951}} * {{Davis Cup player|800168863}} * {{ITF profile|cyril-eames/800168863/gbr}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Eames, Cyril}} Category:1890 births Category:1974 deaths Category:British male tennis players Category:Artists' Rifles soldiers Category:20th-century British sportsmen