{{Short description|American tennis player (1865–1898)}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Rodmond Beach | fullname = Rodmond Vernon Beach | country = {{flagicon|USA}} United States | birth_date = {{birth date|1865|05|18}} | birth_place = New Haven, Connecticut, United States | death_date = {{death date and age|1898|09|28|1865|05|18}} | death_place = Ponce, Puerto Rico | doublesrecord = | doublestitles = |USOpenMixedresult = F (1892) }} '''Rodmond Vernon Beach''' (May 18, 1865 – September 28, 1898) was an American tennis player.
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Beach was the son of a lawyer and attended Yale Law School, which he graduated from in 1889. He had two brothers and one sister.<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/595073818 |work=The Morning Journal-Courier |date=September 30, 1898}}</ref>
Beach was active in tennis during his youth and won an unofficial mixed doubles title at the 1890 U.S. National Championships, partnering Mabel Cahill. In 1892, Beach and Elisabeth Moore were the losing mixed doubles finalists.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Collins |first1=Frank |title=Which Irish Tennis player won 5 US Open Titles? |url=https://www.irishpost.com/history/mabel_cahill_irelands-most-successful-tennis-player-of-all-time-215789 |work=The Irish Post |date=September 6, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
During the Spanish–American War, Beach was posted to Puerto Rico with the 1st United States Volunteer Engineers to serve as a First Lieutenant and Adjutant. He died of typhoid fever in Ponce at the age of 33.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lieut. R. V. Beach Dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/470016364 |work=New York Herald |date=September 30, 1898}}</ref>
==Grand Slam finals == ===Mixed doubles (1 runner-up) === {|class="sortable wikitable" !Result !Year !style="width:170px"|Championship !style="width:50px"|Surface !style="width:160px"|Partner !style="width:160px"|Opponents !style="width:120px" class="unsortable"|Score |- | style="background:#ffa07a;"| Loss || 1892 || style="background:#ccf;"|U.S. Championships || Grass || {{flagicon|USA}} Elisabeth Moore || {{flagicon|USA}} Clarence Hobart <br> {{flagicon|GBR}} Mabel Cahill || 1–6, 3–6 |}
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