2020/12/11 04:16
FILE - Alex Olmedo makes a return as he plays against Roy Emerson, of Australia, during a men's singles semifinal match at the all England Lawn Tennis...
FILE - Alex Olmedo makes a return as he plays against Roy Emerson, of Australia, during a men's singles semifinal match at the all England Lawn Tennis Championship at Wimbledon, London, in this July 1, 1959, file photo. Olmedo, who won the Wimbledon and Australian Championships singles titles in 1959 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, has died. He was 84. Citing Olmedo’s son, Alejandro Jr., the Hall of Fame said Thursday that Olmedo died of brain cancer on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Alejandro “Alex” Olmedo was born in Peru in 1936 and moved to the United States as a teenager. (AP Photo/Leslie Priest, File)