Herbert Marmaduke Tilden

Career

Tilden reached the final of the mixed doubles competition at the United States. National Championships three times, in 1907, 1910 and 1911. In 1907 he partnered with Natalie Wildey and lost the final against May Sayers and Californian Wallace Johnson in two straight sets. In 1910 he teamed up with Natalie"s sister Edna and lost in two sets to Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman and Joseph Carpenter, Junior.

His last mixed doubles came a year later, in 1911, again with Edna Wildey and again they lost in two sets, this time to Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman and Wallace Johnson.

The final required eight sets, the match was postponed at 6–6 in the fifth set due to darkness and was subsequently replayed 6–2, 5–7, 8–6, 5–7, 6–6—unfinished, 6–4, 6–3, 6–4. Herbert Tilden died on September 22, 1915 from pneumonia.

Mixed doubles

= Runners-up (3) =.

Achievements

• Tilden won the National Collegiate Athletic Association Collegiate doubles tennis title in 1908 with Alexander Thayer playing for Penn State University. Tilden won the Delaware State doubles title in 1913 together with Alexander Thayer, beating George Church and Master of Arts Kidder in the final of the All-Comers tournament and F.C. Inman and A. Holmes in the challenge round. Herbert Tilden was the older brother of multiple Grand Slam tournament winner Bill Tilden.