Dan Maskell

Daniel Maskell CBE (11 April 1908 – 10 December 1992) was an English tennis professional who later became a radio and television commentator on the game.

Maskell soon decided to concentrate on tennis, and left school in 1923 to become a full-time ballboy at Queen's Club.

Maskell arranged the first World Professional Championships, played at Queen's Club in October 1927, which he won by defeating Charles Read.

Maskell began commentating on the Wimbledon Championships in 1949 as an expert summariser for BBC Radio alongside Max Robertson, before switching to television in 1951 with Freddie Grisewood.

The last Wimbledon match that he commentated on was the 1991 Men's Singles final in which Michael Stich defeated Boris Becker.

The last tennis match he commentated on for BBC Television was the 1991 Grand Slam Cup final between David Wheaton and Michael Chang.

His son, an accountant who qualified as a private pilot, was killed when his small aircraft crashed in The Bahamas in 1970.

On 10 December 1992, he died in his sleep, of heart failure, at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, survived by his second wife and daughter.