fullname country australianopendoublesresult death_date death_place australianopenresult wimbledonresult usopenresult wimbledonmixedresult birth_date article_title name turnedpro wimbledondoublesresult
geoffrey edmund brown australia f -lrb- 1949 -rrb- may 2001 euroa vic sf -lrb- 1946 , 1948 , 1949 -rrb- f -lrb- 1946 -rrb- 4r -lrb- 1947 -rrb- f -lrb- 1946 , 1950 -rrb- april 1924 geoff brown -lrb- tennis -rrb-
 geoff brown 1945 f -lrb- 1946 , 1950 -rrb-
geoff brown -lrb- tennis -rrb-

geoffrey edmund `` geoff '' brown -lrb- born 4 april 1924 -rrb- is a former australian male tennis player , born in murrurundi , new south wales , australia .
he attended parramatta marist high school in 1938-9 before joining the r.a.a.f as a gunner .
he was demobilised at the end of the war and returned to playing tennis .
brown was runner-up in the 1946 wimbledon championships singles final , losing in five sets to yvon petra , and doubles final playing with dinny pails .
he also reached the doubles finals at the 1949 australian championships and 1950 wimbledon championships , in both he was partnered by compatriot bill sidwell and in both finals they lost to john bromwich and adrian quist .
he reached the quarterfinal at the 1949 wimbledon championships by defeating us champion pancho gonzales in the fourth round .
with his countryman dinny pails he won the doubles title at the irish tennis championships in july 1946 .
he won the singles title at the kent lawn tennis championships in 1948 and 1950 .
in april 1949 he reached the final of the south african championships in johannesburg but lost in four sets to eric sturgess .
in april 1950 brown won the surrey tennis tournament against paddy robert in the final .
in may he played in the british hard court championships in bournemouth and reached the final in which he lost to jaroslav drobný .
in june he defeated sumant misra in the singles final of the northern lawn tennis championships .
due to an illness and operation brown did not play tennis for more than a year and returned in october 1951 .
in october 1952 he won the sydney metropolitan grasscourt championships , deafeting lew hoad in the final in three sets .
in 1947 and 1948 brown played for the australian davis cup team and compiled a record of three wins and one loss .
