Bobby Wilson (tennis)

Robert Keith Wilson (22 November 1935 – 21 September 2020) was an English tennis player.

Wilson reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon four times, Forest Hills twice, and Roland Garros once during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

While still a junior Wilson won a senior level singles match at Wimbledon in 1952, then he lost to eventual runner-up Jaroslav Drobný in the second round; the following year, he reached the third round, where he lost to eventual quarterfinalist Sven Davidson in five sets.

4, reached the same stage the following summer but went out without much of a stir to Roy Emerson in straight sets.

8 seed, reach the quarterfinals at the U.S. Nationals in his fourth appearance at Forest Hills.

He barely survived his first round match versus Argentine Eduardo Soriano, coming back from two sets to one down to prevail, 6–2, 4–6, 5–7, 16–14, 6–3.

Two rounds later, Wilson scored perhaps the biggest match victory of his career, dispatching No.

1963 proved to be Wilson's best year as he reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and Forest Hills.

The most successful year was 1963 when the British team won the Europe Zone, defeating Sweden in the final, to reach the Inter-Zonal semifinal against the United States.

He was one of many signatories in a letter to The Times on 17 July 1958 opposing "the policy of apartheid" in international sport and defending "the principle of racial equality which is embodied in the Declaration of the Olympic Games".