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Fleming gewann außerdem mit dem US-Team dreimal den Davis Cup (1979, 1981 und 1982) und zweimal den World Team Cup (1984, 1985). Seine höchste Platzierung in der Weltrangliste im Einzel erreichte er im Jahr 1980 mit Platz 8, 1984 übernahm er die Spitze im Doppel-Ranking.
- 1974
- 196 cm
- 21. Januar 1955
- Vereinigte Staaten
Peter Blair Fleming (born January 21, 1955, in Chatham Borough, New Jersey) is an American former professional tennis player. In his doubles partnership with John McEnroe, he won 52 titles, of which seven were at Grand Slams (four at Wimbledon, three at the US Open).
ResultNo.DateTournamentLoss1.1976Loss2.1977Loss3.1977Laguna Niguel, U.S.Loss4.1977Johannesburg WCT, South Africa- 6 ft 5 (1.96 m)
- 1988
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
- 1976
- Early Life
- Travels
- Second World War
- Later Life and Death
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Peter Fleming was one of four sons of the barrister and Member of Parliament (MP) Valentine Fleming, who was killed in action during World War I in 1917, having served as MP for Henley from 1910. Fleming was educated at Durnford School and at Eton, where he edited the Eton College Chronicle. The Peter Fleming Owl (the English meaning of "Strix", th...
In Brazil
In April 1932 Fleming replied to an advertisement in the personal columns of The Times: "Exploring and sporting expedition, under experienced guidance, leaving England June to explore rivers central Brazil, if possible ascertain fate Colonel Percy Fawcett; abundant game, big and small; exceptional fishing; room two more guns; highest references expected and given." He then joined the expedition, organised by Robert Churchward, to São Paulo, then overland to the rivers Araguaia and Tapirapé, h...
In Asia
Fleming travelled from Moscow to Peking via the Caucasus, the Caspian, Samarkand, Tashkent, the Turksib Railway and the Trans-Siberian Railway to Peking as a special correspondent of The Times. His experiences were written up in One's Company (1934). He then went overland in company of Ella Maillart from China via Tunganistan to India on a journey written up in News from Tartary (1936). These two books were combined as Travels in Tartary: One's Company and News from Tartary(1941). All three v...
Just before war was declared, Peter Fleming, then a reserve officer in the Grenadier Guards, was recruited by the War Office research section investigating the potential of irregular warfare (MIR). His initial task was to develop ideas to assist the Chinese guerrillas fighting the Japanese. He served in the Norwegian campaign with the prototype com...
After the war Peter Fleming retired to squiredom at Nettlebed, Oxfordshire and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenantfor Oxfordshire on 31 July 1970. Fleming died on 18 August 1971 from a heart attack while on a shooting expedition near Glen Coe in Scotland. His body was buried in the graveyard of St Bartholomew’s Church in Nettlebed, where a stained gl...
After the death of his brother Ian in 1964, Peter Fleming served on the board of Glidrose, Ltd, the company purchased by Ian to hold the literary rights to his professional writing, particularly the James Bondnovels and short stories. Peter also tried to become a substitute father for Ian's surviving son, Caspar, who overdosed on narcotics in his t...
The Peter Fleming Award, worth £9,000, is given by the Royal Geographical Societyfor a "research project that seeks to advance geographical science". Fleming's book about the British military expedition to Tibet in 1903 to 1904 is credited in the Chinese film Red River Valley(1997).
"São Paulo is like Reading, only much farther away." – Brazilian Adventure"Public opinion in England is sharply divided on the subject of Russia. On the one hand you have the crusty majority, who believe it to be a hell on earth; on the other you have the half-baked mino...The recorded history of Chinese civilisation covers a period of four thousand years.Fleming was a special correspondent for The Times and often wrote under the pen-name "Strix" (Latin for "screech owl") as an essayist for The Spectator.
- St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, Nettlebed
- 3, including Lucy
Peter Fleming (* 31. Mai 1907 in London; † 18. August 1971 in Argyll) war ein britischer Schriftsteller. Der Sohn des britischen Unterhausabgeordneten Valentine Fleming wurde insbesondere durch seine Reiseliteratur bekannt, in der Südamerika und Asien den Schwerpunkt bildeten. Nach ihm ist der Peter Fleming Award benannt.
- 31. Mai 1907
- Fleming, Peter
- britischer Schriftsteller
- London
Blond-haired and blue-eyed Peter Fleming, known on tour as "Flam", won 66 doubles titles including four at Wimbledon in 1979, 1981, 1983-84 and three at the US Open 1979, 1981 and 1983 with John McEnroe, a contrasting personality, who he nicknamed "Junior", to become one of the greatest teams in tennis history.
Fleming is best known for partnering with John McEnroe for seven Grand Slam doubles titles.
Peter Fleming ist der Name folgender Personen: Peter Fleming (Schriftsteller) (1907–1971), britischer Schriftsteller. Peter Fleming (Tennisspieler) (* 1955), US-amerikanischer Tennisspieler.
