Career

Hobart also reached the Challenge Round in the Gentlemen"s Singles in 1891, finishing runner-up. During a 1903 tour in Europe he reached the finals of the Kent Championships and the Ostend International tournament in Belgium but was defeated by A.W. Gore and Paul de Borman respectively. His refusal contributed to the abandonment in 1912 of the Challenge Round system at the United States. National Championships.

Clarence Hobart died on August 2, 1930 as a result of an accident at a swimming pool in Asheville, North Carolina.

United States. National championships

Singles finalist: 1891Ch, 1905

Doubles finalist: 1888, 1891, 1895

Singles

= Runners-up (1) Doubles

= Titles (3) = Runners-up (5) Mixed doubles

= Titles (3) =.

Achievements

• He was a six-time champion at the United States. National Championships, winning three titles in men"s doubles in 1890, 1893 and 1894 and three others in mixed doubles in 1892, 1893 and 1905. In 1905 he won the mixed doubles title at the United States. National Championship with Augusta Schultz whom he married in 1895. In 1899 he won the Championship of Germany, played in Homburg, by defeating A.W. Gore in the final in three straight sets and subsequently winning against Irishman Harold Mahony in the challenge round in five sets. At the same venue he reached the final of the Homburg Cup but lost in five sets to Wimbledon champion Reggie Doherty after leading 2–0 in sets. In 1907 Hobart competed in the Longwood tournament, at the time the most important tournament in the United States. next to the national championship, and won the All-Comers tournament. This entitled him to play for the tournament title in the Challenge Round against Larned, the winner of the previous title, but he refused to play explaining "Foreign many years I have opposed the practice of permitting the holders to stand out in our tournaments.. on the obvious ground that it is unjust to pit a tired man against a fresh one, and equally unjust to give the holder only one chance for defeat while the challenger must necessarily have several.". Doubles champion: 1890, 1893, 1894 Mixed doubles champion: 1892, 1893, 1905.