{{Short description|British tennis player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Gordon Crole-Rees | image = | fullname = | country_represented = {{GBR}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1883|11|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = Southend-on-Sea, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1954|6|9|1883|11|17|df=yes}} | death_place = Southend, England | plays = | highestsinglesranking = | currentsinglesranking = | AustralianOpenresult = | FrenchOpenresult =2R (1925) | Wimbledonresult = 3R (1925, 1927) | USOpenresult = | highestdoublesranking = | currentdoublesranking = | AustralianOpenDoublesresult = | FrenchOpenDoublesresult = SF (1925) | WimbledonDoublesresult = QF (1926, 1927, 1928) | USOpenDoublesresult = | Mixed = | mixedrecord = | AustralianOpenMixedresult = | FrenchOpenMixedresult = | WimbledonMixedresult = SF (1930) | USOpenMixedresult = }} '''Gordon Rhind Oak Crole-Rees''' (17 November 1883 – 9 June 1954) was a British tennis player.
==Career==
Crole-Rees was educated at Highgate School from September 1905 until April 1911.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Rodney C |title=Highgate School Register |date=1950 |page=107 |edition=5th}}</ref>
===Davis Cup=== Crole-Rees made his Davis Cup debut in 1925 when he was used by Great Britain for two singles rubbers against France at Devonshire Park.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31868528 |title=Lawn Tennis. |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth, WA |date=13 July 1925 |accessdate=17 December 2015 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2140600 |title=Davis Cup. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=16 July 1925 |accessdate=17 December 2015 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> For the rest of Davis Cup career, a further nine ties, he featured only in the doubles. Initially he partnered Charles Kingsley and then he played alongside Cyril Eames.
===Wimbledon=== Crole-Rees twice reached the third round at the Wimbledon Championships, but had more success at the tournament as a doubles player. He made the quarter-finals in the men's doubles in three successive years from 1926 to 1928. In the 1927 Wimbledon Championships, en route to the quarter-finals, Crole-Rees and his partner Cyril Eames managed to defeat second seeds Jean Borotra and Rene Lacoste.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1302&dat=19270706&id=do5VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MZYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3940,31692&hl=en|title=Current Topics|date=6 July 1927|work=The Sydney Mail|page=6|accessdate=17 December 2015}}</ref> He made semi-finals in the mixed doubles with Phyllis Mudford at the 1930 Wimbledon Championships.
===Singles titles=== *1925: Surrey Championships *1926: Kent Championships *1927: Surrey Championships *1927: Irish Lawn Tennis Championships
==See also== *List of Great Britain Davis Cup team representatives
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{ATP}} * {{Davis Cup player}} * {{ITF}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Crole Rees, Gordon}} Category:1883 births Category:1954 deaths Category:People educated at Highgate School Category:English male tennis players Category:British male tennis players Category:Tennis players from Essex Category:19th-century English sportsmen Category:20th-century English sportsmen Category:Sportspeople from Southend-on-Sea