[2] First playing tournament tennis while he was in the RAF, Walton won the Warwickshire county title four times and regularly featured at Wimbledon post war.

By the time of his last Wimbledon appearance in 1963 he was the only English player, along with Geoffrey Paish, to have not missed a main draw during this period.

His selection was aided by the fact he had a week prior beaten two of the Indian players when he won a tournament in Paddington.

[3] He featured in two singles rubbers for Great Britain and lost in both, to Dilip Bose and Sumant Misra.

Great Britain still won the tie and progressed to play Norway in Oslo, but Walton was replaced in the team by Headley Baxter.