1368) Sergei Utochkin

Sergei Utochkin (1876 – 1916). Russian cyclist, sportsman and aviator. Utochkin had a nickname "the Man of all kind of sport" and "the Academician of sports" - swimming, diving, rowing and sailing, running, pistol shooting, ice skating, fencing, soccer, tennis, horse riding, wrestling, boxing.

He was the first man who rode down the famous Potemkin Stairs by cycle and car.

 

- "He was taller than average, stooped, long-armed, red-haired, with blue eyes and white eyelashes, all freckled." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Utochkin 

 

- "Perhaps only the most famous artists were so well known as that joyful fiery red-haired man, a brave and chivalrous noble - favorite of all of Odessa." https://persona.rin.ru/eng/view/f/0/18482/sergey-utochkin

 

- "The fiery red-haired man in a straw boater - a bold Russian aviator, Utochkin - was sitting in the box." https://kpi.ua/en/634-7

 

 

 

1169) Margaret Osborne duPont

Margaret Osborne duPont (born Margaret Evelyn Osborne; 1918 – 2012). World No. 1 American female tennis player.
DuPont won a total of 37 singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles, which places her fourth on the all-time list despite never entering the Australian Championships. She won 25 of her Grand Slam titles at the U.S. Championships, which is an all-time record.

- "... San Francisco's chubby, red-haired Margaret ("Ozzie") Osborne and blonde Louise Brough (rhymes with rough) of Beverly Hills."  https://www.tennisforum.com/…/23435-serve-volley-40s-tennis…

1168) Pauline Betz

Pauline Betz Addie (née Pauline May Betz, 1919 – 2011). American professional tennis player. She won five Grand Slam singles titles and was the runner-up on three other occasions. Jack Kramer has called her the second best female tennis player he ever saw, behind Helen Wills Moody.

- "He had Pauline Betz, a slender redhead who had won the national crown four times..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "But when red-haired Pauline gets out on the court, narrows her green eyes and sets her jaw, she is cool as a cucumber."  https://www.tennisforum.com/…/23435-serve-volley-40s-tennis…

- "Pauline Betz, 29, green-eyed, red-haired U.S. tennis queen (four-time winner of the U.S. Women's Singles..."  http://content.time.com/…/mag…/article/0,9171,794641,00.html

964) Don Budge

John Donald ("Don" or "Donnie") Budge (1915 – 2000). American tennis player. He was a World No. 1 player for five years, first as an amateur and then as a professional. He is most famous as the first player, male or female, and only American male to win in a single year the four tournaments that comprise the Grand Slam of tennis and second male player to win all four Grand Slam events in his career after Fred Perry, and is still the youngest to achieve that feat. He won 10 majors, of which six were Grand Slam events (consecutively, male record) and four Pro Slams, the latter achieved on three different surfaces. Budge was considered to have the best backhand in the history of tennis, at least until the emergence of Ken Rosewall in the 1950s and 1960s, although most observers rated Budge's backhand the stronger of the two.

- "Ruddy-faced, freckled, with a full head of bright red hair, Budge weighed only 155 pounds then, although he stood almost 6 feet 2 inches."  https://www.latimes.com/…/la-xpm-1988-05-29-sp-5609-story.h…

- "Supremely athletic and powerful, the red-haired Budge stood six-foot-one and weighed 160 pounds, giving him an imposing body, ideal for tennis players." 
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Don_Budge

- "... but the thing I remember the most was Don Budge's bright red hair."  https://books.google.it/books…

963) Maurice McLoughlin

Maurice Evans McLoughlin (1890 – 1957). American tennis player. Known for his powerful serve and overhead volley, McLoughlin was the first male tennis champion from the western United States.

- "To the surprise of the easteners in 1909, red-haired Maurice McLoughlin, the California Comet, suddenly appeared."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "It was Maurice McLoughlin, he of the red hair, gleaming smile and pulverizing punch in service and smash."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "McLoughlin, the red-haired Californian, broke the ice in 1912."  https://books.google.it/books…