Career
He was originally from California. Bill Tilden wrote of the pair that he had "seldom seen a team work together more smoothly than the Kinseys." In 1926, he reached the Wimbledon final losing to Jean Borotra. Kinsey was ranked World Number.
7 in 1924 by A. Wallis Myers in his amateur rankings for The Daily Telegraph.
As a pro, American Lawn Tennis Magazine ranked Kinsey as World Number. 6 in 1930. Later in 1926, he went on to be one of the first players signed up by the promoter Charles C. Pyle to play in his professional tennis league.
After a split with Pyle, he joined Richards in forming an association of professional tennis players. In 1936, he and Helen Wills Moody volleyed a tennis ball back and forth 2,001 times without missing.
The feat took them 1 hour and 18 minutes.
They only broke off the exchange so that Kinsey could go teach a lesson that he had scheduled.