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21 october 1999 sf -lrb- 1938 , 1939 , 1947 -rrb- qf -lrb- 1950 -rrb- '' -rrb- ` w '' ' -lrb- 1947 , 1948 '' ` w '' ' -lrb- 1938 -rrb- 14 november 1918 '' ` w '' ' -lrb- 1947 -rrb- geelong '' , 1950 -rrb- ` w '' ' -lrb- 1939 , 1949 '' -rrb- ` w '' ' -lrb- 1939 , 1946 john bromwich as a junior.jpg john bromwich bromwich in the 1930s john edward bromwich sydney f -lrb- 1948 -rrb- 1.78 0 '' , 1940 , 1946 , 1947 , 1948 , 1949 ` , 1950 -rrb- w '' ' -lrb- 1938 , 1939 john bromwich
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john bromwich

john edward bromwich -lrb- 14 november 1918 in sydney , new south wales -- 21 october 1999 in geelong , victoria -rrb- was a male tennis player from australia who , along with his countryman vivian mcgrath , was one of the first great players to use a two-handed backhand .
-lrb- he was a natural left-hander . -rrb-
bromwich twice won the australian championships singles title , in 1939 -lrb- over adrian quist in a straight sets final -rrb- and in 1946 -lrb- a thrilling 5-set final victory over dinny pails -rrb- .
he was ranked world no. 3 by a. wallis myers in 1938 and again by harry hopman in 1947 .
although a fine singles player , bromwich was primarily known as being a brilliant doubles player , winning 13 men 's doubles titles and 4 mixed doubles titles in the majors .
tennis great -lrb- and near contemporary -rrb- jack kramer writes in his 1979 autobiography that if `` earth were playing in the all-time universe davis cup , i 'd play budge and vines in my singles , and budge and bromwich in the doubles .
that 's what i think of johnny as a doubles player . ''
in the 1939 davis cup final , just as world war ii was starting , bromwich played arguably the match of his life in beating the american , frank parker , in straight sets , to clinch the cup for australia .
australia had trailed 0 -- 2 after the first day , and came back to win the tie , 3 -- 2 .
this remains the only time in davis cup history where the winning team has won a davis cup final after trailing 0 -- 2 .
in 1948 , bromwich played the american bob falkenburg in the wimbledon final , and had a championship point at 5 -- 3 in the fifth set .
he came to the net for a volley but decided that falkenburg 's ball would go long and let it go by .
it landed on the baseline and falkenburg fought his way back into the match .
bromwich later had another two championship points , but was unable to take those either , and falkenburg came back to win the championship , taking the last four games to win the fifth set , 7 -- 5 .
kramer later wrote that '' ... it never seemed to me that he was the same player after that .
he doubted himself .
he was a precision player to start with -- he used a terribly light racket weighing less than twelve ounces , and it was strung loosely .
he could put a ball on a dime , and i suppose after he misjudged that one shot , the most important in his life , he never possessed the confidence he needed . ''
also worth noting is that bromwich also missed a championship point in losing the 1947 australian championships final to dinny pails .
bromwich gained some revenge against falkenburg in the 1949 wimbledon quarter finals , coming back from two sets down to win in five sets .
bromwich then lost to jaroslav drobný in the semi finals .
writing about bromwich , kramer says , `` bromwich was like mcmillan today because as a kid john hit from both sides two-handed , and while he eventually had given up the two-handed forehand , he still hit backhand two-handed and could anything back from the baseline .
he had strokes very much like connors . ''
bromwich was inducted into the international tennis hall of fame in newport , rhode island in 1984 .
