--- title: U.S. Open: Remembering Fred Perry's Reign of Dominance description: The English star won three U.S. Open championships in four years to cement his status amongst tennis' all-time greats canonical: https://time.com/3270764/fred-perry-us-open/ author: Eric Dodds article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-08T11:00:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:01:13.487Z article:section: History og:title: U.S. Open: Remembering Fred Perry's Reign of Dominance og:description: The English star won three U.S. Open championships in four years to cement his status amongst tennis' all-time greats og:url: https://time.com/3270764/fred-perry-us-open/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltee1367a2252608b3/6986a22ef983e78c0604f81d/1101340903_400.jpg?branch=production&width=400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 400 og:image:height: 225 og:image:alt: Fred Perry: Sept. 3, 1934 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: U.S. Open: Remembering Fred Perry's Reign of Dominance twitter:description: The English star won three U.S. Open championships in four years to cement his status amongst tennis' all-time greats twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltee1367a2252608b3/6986a22ef983e78c0604f81d/1101340903_400.jpg?branch=production&width=400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Remembering Fred Perry's Reign of Dominance at the U.S. Open > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Eric Dodds](https://time.com/author/eric-dodds/) ## Eric Dodds Sep 8, 2014 11:00 AM UTC  Fred Perry on the Sept. 3, 1934, cover of TIME Fred Perry on the Sept. 3, 1934, cover of TIME Keystone / TIME by [Eric Dodds](https://time.com/author/eric-dodds/) ## Eric Dodds Sep 8, 2014 11:00 AM UTC In 2012, Andy Murray became just the third British man in history to win the U.S. Open title. The first was Lawrence Doherty in 1903\. Neither repeated as champion and neither was the greatest British tennis player of all time. That distinction belongs to Fred Perry, who captured the U.S. championship three times in four years (1933, 1934 and 1936) to go along with three Wimbledon titles and one each at the Australian and French Opens. Each British star to gain some degree of prominence in that last 80 years has lived in his shadow — one that somehow seems to grow with each successive year. But in 1933, Perry was no legend. When the 24-year-old arrived in Forest Hills, N.Y. — then the site of the National Singles Championship, as the event now called the U.S. Open was known until the 1960s — he had no Grand Slam titles to his name. He was simply trying to do what no British man had done in 30 years: win a U.S. title. He had come close in previous years, reaching the fourth round twice and the semifinals once, but had yet to make so much as a major final. That changed in September 1933, when he defeated Australian Jack Crawford, who had already completed three legs of the Grand Slam that year. It was no easy task for Perry, who had to come back from being down two sets to one to claim the championship. Here’s how TIME [described the action](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,746084,00.html) after the third set was completed: --- > “” --- Perry did win that championship, claiming the final two sets — ensuring that, though Crawford had been the tennis star to make TIME’s cover on the occasion of the 1933 Open, Perry was cover material in 1934\. He lost just one more match at Forest Hills (in the 1935 semifinals) over the course of his amateur career. His five-set victory over Don Budge in 1936 was his last major victory before turning pro near the end of that year. Though a Brit will not be winning this year’s U.S. Open (Murray was eliminated by top-seeded Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals), there’s still ample hope that the finals live up to some of Perry’s more epic matches on America’s grandest tennis stage. **_Read TIME’s 1934 cover story about Fred Perry here, in TIME’s archives:_** [Tennists to Forest Hills](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,747857,00.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3270764/fred-perry-us-open/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3270764/fred-perry-us-open/"},"headline":"Remembering Fred Perry's Reign of Dominance at the U.S. Open","datePublished":"2014-09-08T11:00:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:01:13.487Z","description":"The English star won three U.S. Open championships in four years to cement his status amongst tennis' all-time greats","url":"https://time.com/3270764/fred-perry-us-open/","keywords":["Sports topic","History","tennis","U.S. Open"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltee1367a2252608b3/6986a22ef983e78c0604f81d/1101340903_400.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eric Dodds","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eric-dodds/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltee1367a2252608b3/6986a22ef983e78c0604f81d/1101340903_400.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fred Perry: Sept. 3, 1934","caption":"Fred Perry: Sept. 3, 1934","creditText":"Keystone / TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3270764/fred-perry-us-open/","name":"Remembering Fred Perry's Reign of Dominance at the U.S. Open"}}]}] ```