Vines, aged 15, reached the quarter-finals of the Pacific Northwest Championships in Tacoma in July, where he lost to Dick Stevens.

[6] Vines reached the quarter-finals of the Pacific Southwest tournament in October, where he lost to Christian Boussus.

The young Pasadenan's service was far better than that of Boussus, but the Frenchman's marvelous placements and his steadiness brought him through victoriously.

He usually was content to hit the ball back, without trying fancy shots, and forced Vines into errors in long rallies.

[14] Vines won his first title of the year in February, beating Stoefen in five sets to win the Los Angeles championships.

[15] Vines won the River Oaks tournament in Houston in April beating Bruce Barnes in the final.

"The flashiness of Vines's playing is shown in the fact that he scored forty placement aces to Herrington's three during the four sets.

Employing his powerful backhand stroke, the Pasadena youngster pulled the match out of the fire by winning the next four points to take the game.

[23] Vines was still 19 when he won his first Grand Slam singles title, the U.S. Championships, beating George Lott in the final in four sets.

[28] In April, Vines beat Allison in the final of the Mason-Dixon tournament at The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs.

1 amateur by A. Wallis Myers,[35] Bernard Brown,[36] Pierre Gillou,[37] F. Gordon Lowe[38] and Jean Borotra.

[41] Vines reached the final of Wimbledon, but lost a classic five set battle to Jack Crawford.

Vines played his first professional tennis match on January 10, 1934, and then became the leading pro player until 1938 (and the World No.

Then Vines lost in the semi-finals at Detroit to Karel Kozeluh and didn't play in the remaining events of the tour at Milwaukee and St. Louis.

At Wembley, Vines won the title in a round robin that also featured Nusslein, Tilden, Martin Plaa, Bruce Barnes and Dan Maskell.

Touring UK and Ireland, Perry won a short series against Vines, including winning two of the three matches at Wembley, where they played for the King George VI Coronation Cup.

After coming back from four match points down to win at Richmond on 8 May, Vines said "I've got a good lead over that guy (Perry) and I'm going to keep it just to prove once and for all who's No 1 man" and "if Budge turns pro next year I want to be the one to play against him because that's where the money will be.

In June, Vines won the Brussels Professional Spring Championships, defeating Budge and Tilden in close matches.

At the knock-out event at Southport, Vines lost in the semi-finals to Nusslein, who then defeated Tilden in the final.

[66] His physical problems, his desire to enjoy family life, his loss of the world crown, and above all his increasing passion for golf drove him to retire from tennis.

When he was on, no one could beat him.”[61] In 1983, Fred Perry ranked the greatest male players of all time and put them in to two categories, before World War 2 and after.

Perry's pre-WWII nominees all below Tilden and excluding himself "Budge, Cochet, Ellsworth Vines 'so powerful!

', Gottfried von Cramm, Jack Crawford, Jari Sato, Jean Borotra, Bunny Austin, Roderick Menzel, Baron Umberto de Morpurgo".

[73] Tall and thin, Vines possessed a game with no noticeable weaknesses, except, according to Kramer, because of his great natural athletic ability, laziness.

Playing in the white flannel trousers that were standard dress for the time, he greatly impressed the youthful Kramer in a 1935 match in Southern California: And here is Ellsworth Vines, 6'2½" tall, 155 pounds, dressed like Fred Astaire and hitting shots like Babe Ruth.Kramer made up his mind on the spot to concentrate on tennis.

(NOTE: The school's official all-time roster does not list him; however, this does not mean that Vines did not earn a basketball scholarship.)

[74]After becoming bored with tennis while only in his late twenties, Vines became a professional golfer in 1942 and over the years had a number of high finishes in tournaments, including at least two professional victories (1946 Massachusetts Open, 1955 Utah Open) and a semifinal position in the prestigious 1951 PGA Championship when it was a match play tournament.

Writes Kramer, He was twice in the top ten of golf money winnings, and he was surely the best athlete ever in the two sports.Kramer compared Vines to another great tennis player, Lew Hoad: Both were very strong guys.

Unfortunately, the latter was largely true because both had physical problems.Vines was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in 1962.

[75] Vines was banned from competing in the amateur Grand Slams when he joined the professional tennis circuit in 1934.