Hal Burrows

Harold Melville Burrows Jr (December 24, 1924 — September 20, 2014) was an American tennis player.

[1] Burrows was raised in Charlottesville, Virginia and served in Europe during the war as a radio operator with the 81st Squadron of the 436th Troop Carrier Group.

After the war he captained University of Virginia in collegiate tennis and was a three-time state champion, before graduating in 1950.

[3] His doubles partnership with Straight Clark ranked amongst the top in the world, with their best win coming in the quarter-finals of the 1953 U.S. National Championships over Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, who were trying to complete the calendar grand slam.

In 1954 he became the first native of Virginia to play Davis Cup tennis and was part of a winning campaign.