Raymond D. Little
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Raymond D. Little, born January 5, 1880, in New York, was an outstanding tennis player in the early part of the 20th Century.
Little was ranked in the U.S. Top 10 eleven times between 1900 and 1912, his highest ranking coming 1907 when he was ranked No. 4. He played on the United States Davis Cup team, and also won the intercollegiate tennis title for Princeton University in 1900.
At the tournament now known as the Cincinnati Masters, the oldest tournament in the U.S. played in its original city, Little reached 12 finals in eight appearances between 1900 and 1907: 4 singles finals, six doubles finals and two mixed doubles finals.
In those 12 finals appearances, his only loss came in the singles final of 1903 when he lost to Kreigh Collins, an outstanding player out of Chicago.
His three singles titles came in 1900, 1901 and 1902, his six doubles titles were in 1900, 1901, 1904, 1905, 1906 & 1907, and his mixed doubles titles came in 1901 (with Marion Jones of Nevada) and 1905 (with May Sutton).
