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Vincent "Vinnie" Richards was born on March 20, 1903 in New York City, the son of Edward A. Richards, a building contractor, and of Mary McQuade. He grew up in Yonkers, New York, where he began to play tennis at the age of eight. At twelve he participated in his first tennis tournament, and shortly thereafter he became a member of a boys' tennis team that represented New York in amateur play around the country.
Richards graduated from Fordham Preparatory School in 1919, then studied for two years at Fordham University and for one year (1922) at the Columbia University School of Journalism.
Richards won twenty-seven national tennis titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles competition. He, William ("Big Bill") Tilden II, Richard Norris Williams II, and William M. Johnston were commonly recognized as the four outstanding players of the "golden era" of American amateur tennis - the period from 1920 to 1926, when the United States won seven consecutive Davis Cup championships. Richards first achieved prominence in 1917, when he won the National Boys Outdoor Singles Tournament at age fourteen.
He was then asked to play in a tournament against Tilden, who was his senior by ten years. Tilden won the contest, but was so impressed with Richards' quality of play that he asked him to be his partner in the adult competition for the national doubles championship. They took the doubles title in 1918. It was Tilden's first important national victory, and his fifteen-year-old partner captured the attention of the nation. Richards and Tilden won the doubles again in 1921 and 1922, but their relationship was strained because of their intense rivalry for the national singles title, which Tilden invariably won. The partnership could not survive, and in 1925 and 1926, Richards teamed with Williams to capture the national doubles championships. During this same period Richards had represented the United States on five winning Davis Cup teams, and had won the men's singles and doubles titles at the 1924 Olympic Games.
Since the tennis event was held only at the 1924 Olympics, Richards and Hunter were the only male Olympic gold medalists in the sport.
From 1924 to 1927 he reported on tennis for the King Features Syndicate. The contract (for $8, 000 per year) enabled Richards to devote most of his time to tennis, but he also wrote numerous articles on tennis and tennis players for national magazines and served (1925 - 1926) as an agent for the Equitable Life Assurance Society. A major turning point in Richards' tennis career came in 1926, when the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association ruled that players could no longer receive pay for reporting on tournaments in which they were competing.
The penalty for violation of the new rule was loss of amateur standing, and thus exclusion from championship competition. The ruling was undoubtedly a major factor in Richards' decision in October 1926 to turn professional, a move that stunned the sport and gave the original impetus to the development of professional tennis in the United States. Promoted by C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle, a three-month tour made by Richards and five colleagues (two women and three men) proved popular and profitable.
Richards' share of the purse was reported to have been $35, 000.
In September 1927 "big-time" professional tennis came into being when Richards and thirteen other top stars organized the Professional Lawn Tennis Association of the United States. Richards won the professional singles title in 1927, and successfully defended it in 1928. Karel Kozeluh took the singles title from Richards in 1929, then teamed up with Richards to capture the professional doubles title that same year. After recapturing the singles title in 1930, Richards announced his retirement.
Shortly after retiring, Richards became general manager of the sporting goods division of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Corporation.
He remained with the corporation for the rest of his life, eventually becoming vice-president of the division. But by 1933 he was back in competition, winning the professional singles and doubles titles (the latter with Charles Wood). A triple fracture of the right arm suffered in an automobile accident in 1935 threatened to end his tennis career, but he gradually recovered and won the professional doubles title in 1937 and (with Fred Perry) in 1938.
During World War II, Richards participated in exhibition tournaments to raise funds for government bond drives and for the Red Cross, and gave exhibitions to entertain American servicemen. Once more teaming up with Tilden, his former partner and adversary, he won the professional doubles championship in 1945. It was his last professional title. After competing in the 1946 tournaments, Richards finally retired. For a time he broadcast tennis matches for the CBS television network, and in 1947 he accepted a one-year, nonsalaried appointment as the first commissioner of the World Professional Tennis League.
He died in New York City.
He perfected a rifle-fire volley that contemporaries agreed made him one of the greatest volleyers of his era. His service was not first-class, and his ground strokes were markedly inferior to Tilden's, but in play at the net he was in a class by himself. One of the great players of the game, he was instrumental in making professional tennis a successful sport.
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Quotations: "The money made right after an amateur turns professional is the cream, and what he makes afterward comes hard in comparison. "
Richards was five feet, nine inches tall, rather short for a tennis player.
In January 1924, Richards married Claremont Gushee; they had three children.
