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Home > Tennis > Tennis Players > Joseph Joe Hunt (1919 to 1944)
Joseph Joe Hunt (1919 to 1944)
Tennis is an outdoor sport which can be played between two players or four players. Players utilize a stringed racquet to hit a rubber ball, hollow inside covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. In some places tennis is referred to as lawn tennis. This game started in England and was the most popular amongst the upper class of society. Presently tennis is an Olympic sport, as well as, it is played in various tournaments including the four Grand Slams in many countries, by people of all ages and classes.
There are three different court surfaces it is played on namely, clay court, grass court and hard court. Depending on the surface, each one provides a different movement of speed and bounce for the ball, which in turn affects the level of play of individual players.
Joseph Joe Raphael Hunt was born on February 17, 1919 and died on February 2, 1945. He was a champion American tennis player of the early 1940s from Southern California. He became a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during World War II and, fifteen days short of his twenty-sixth birthday, was killed on a training mission off Daytona Beach, Florida, when his Grumman Hellcat crashed for still-unknown reasons.
In 1943, he won the United States singles championship at Forest Hills while lying on the ground. On match point Hunt collapsed with cramps while his opponent, Jack Kramer, hit a return that barely went long. Hunt was unable to obtain leave from the Navy in 1944 in order to defend his title. Hunt was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in 1966.
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