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Perry was a table tennis world champion before taking up tennis at the relatively late age of 18. He had exceptional quickness from his table tennis days and played with the Continental grip, attacking the ball low and on the rise. He was the first player to win all four Grand Slam singles titles, though not in same year. He was also the first player to win those four titles consecutively, although once again not in the same year. He is the last English-born player to win the Wimbledon title, winning it three times in a row, thereby turning himself into an English icon.

In 1933 Perry helped lead his team to victory over France in the Davis Cup that gave Great BritainGreat Britain (often abbreviated as Britain is an island lying off the western coast of Europe, comprising the main territory of the United Kingdom. Great Britain is also used as a political term describing the combination of England, Scotland, and Wales, the Davis Cup for the first time in 21 years.

He is considered one of the greatest male players to have ever played the game. Kings of the Court, a video-tape documentary made in 1997 in conjunction with the International Tennis Hall of FameThe International Tennis Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit tennis museum in Newport, Rhode Island that also has a Hall of Fame for prominent personalities and players from the tennis world. It was founded in 1954 by James Van Alen and is now the largest te, named Perry one of the 10 greatest players of all time. But this documentary only considered those players who played before the Open era of tennis that began in 1968, with the exception of Rod LaverRod Laver (born August 9, 1938) is a professional tennis player. Born Rodney George Laver at Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia, he is considered by most as the greatest player to ever play the game of tennis. He was a young boy when he left school to p, who spanned both eras, so that all of the more recent great players are missing. It is quite possible, though, that Perry was one of the 20 greatest players in history.

Just inside the Church Road gate at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, a statue of Fred Perry was erected in 1984 to mark the 50th anniversary of his first singles championship. In his birthplace, a special 14 mile (23 km) walking route, Fred Perry Way, was built by the city of Stockport and officially opened in September of 2002.

Clothing of the brand named for him became popular with skinheadSkinheads named after their shaven heads, are members of a subculture that originated in Britain in the 1960s. Skinheads were closely tied to the Rude boy of the West Indies and the Mods of the UK. Skinheads may be categorized into three main factions: Ras, modMod or MOD may refer to any of the following: Mod (or, to use its full name, Modernism) was a lifestyle based around fashion and music that developed in London, England in the late 1950s. They show an affinity for scooters, such as the Italian Vespas.s, and other youth sub-cultures. It is best known for the laurelThe name Laurel is widely used in English, once being a moderately common name typically for girls; also as Laurie''. Following are other uses of Laurel Many trees and shrubs are called Laurel . Bay laurel, botanically Laurus nobilis the original True lau logo on the left breast of polo-style shirts. It was, however, popular with non-skinhead types long before that word was ever invented. In the mid-1950's and through the early 60's the best tennis shirts on the market, for male players at least, were the Fred Perry brand. The laurel logo on the shirt was stitched into the fabric, rather than being merely being ironed on, as the Cochet crocodile was on competing shirts.

Perry was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of FameThe International Tennis Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit tennis museum in Newport, Rhode Island that also has a Hall of Fame for prominent personalities and players from the tennis world. It was founded in 1954 by James Van Alen and is now the largest te in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1975.

Fred Perry died in Melbourne, Australia