Open Era Grand Slam TennisBudge Patty
This page provides a comprehensive overview of Budge Patty’s Grand Slam career. It combines key background information and career-level statistics with a complete, filterable list of his tournament results, showing how far he progressed in each Grand Slam event across his career.
Insights
Two titles came in the same 1950 season
Patty’s only championship results are both in 1950: he won Wimbledon and the French Open at age 26. No other year in the table shows a title, making 1950 his clear peak season.
French Open was his most productive major
Across the listed results, the French Open produced his best spread: two titles, one final, and one semifinal. That is more deep runs than any other tournament in the data.
Wimbledon shows a sharp rise, then a drop
At Wimbledon, Patty reached the semifinals in 1947 and 1954-1955, won in 1950, and had a quarterfinal in 1948. The sequence shows repeated late-stage success, with the title sitting between earlier and later semifinal runs.
His Grand Slam peak stretched from age 23 to 31
Patty’s deepest results span a long window: semifinal at 23 in 1947, final at 25 in 1949, titles at 26 in 1950, and semifinals again at 30-31 in 1954-1955. That is a sustained top-level stretch rather than a brief spike.
He finished with a late-career quarterfinal at 33
His final listed Grand Slam result is a US Open quarterfinal in 1957 at age 33. That came after a two-year gap from 1955, showing he was still reaching the last eight late in his career.
Basics
| Born | 11 February 1924 |
| Gender | Male |
| AKA | J.E. Patty |
| Nation | United States |
| Era | Amateur Era |
| Grand Slam careerCareer | 1946-1955, 1957 |
Grand Slam statistics
| Best results Amateur Era | 2 x champion 1 x finalist 5 x semifinalist |
| Total matches | 86 |
During the Amateur Era, only top results (quarterfinals or better) from 1945 onwards are listed on this site. Therefore, the list below may not include all Amateur Era results.
| Year | Tournament | Era | Result | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | US Open | Amateur Era | Q | 33 |
| 1955 | Wimbledon | Amateur Era | S | 31 |
| 1955 | French Open | Amateur Era | Q | 31 |
| 1954 | Wimbledon | Amateur Era | S | 30 |
| 1954 | French Open | Amateur Era | S | 30 |
| 1953 | US Open | Amateur Era | Q | 29 |
| 1952 | French Open | Amateur Era | Q | 28 |
| 1951 | US Open | Amateur Era | Q | 27 |
| 1950 | Wimbledon | Amateur Era | W | 26 |
| 1950 | French Open | Amateur Era | W | 26 |
| 1949 | French Open | Amateur Era | F | 25 |
| 1948 | Wimbledon | Amateur Era | Q | 24 |
| 1948 | French Open | Amateur Era | S | 24 |
| 1947 | Wimbledon | Amateur Era | S | 23 |
| 1946 | French Open | Amateur Era | Q | 22 |