A keen shot and sportsman, he played championship tennis at the Queen's Club, but it was at Oxford that he developed a passion for the arts.
During the fortnight of championship tennis that began at Wimbledon last week, thousands of spectators will chow down on the event's signature snack: strawberries and cream.
They deserved an entire evening of championship tennis dedicated to them, without the ponderous intrusion of old guys and an endless college football game.
Doherty was the shorter of the two brothers, at 1.78m, who played championship tennis in their native England and at Wimbledon at the turn of the century.
Now those matches are the hard-court covers to the seminal work on the endangered art of serve-and-volley championship tennis.
After the war he continued playing championship tennis.
Reid was forced to retire from championship tennis shortly after his 22nd birthday.
She has played championship tennis, and she has played a leading and courageous role in the emergence of women's professional tennis.
At the U.S. Open in Queens for the past two weeks, the sounds of championship tennis have filled the air.
Athletes in bold are considered to be still in championship tennis.