Bill Tilden Signed 1945 National Tennis Championships Club House Pass - PSA Slab

Description

Famed American tennis player (1893-1953) whose major tournament victories number in the dozens (including six consecutive years as U.S. Singles Champion). Though his reputation was tainted by a pedophilic scandal and a jail term in the 1940s, a 1950 Associated Press poll named him the greatest tennis player of the first half of the twentieth century.
RARE "The West Side Tennis Club / Club House Pass" for the 1945 National Tennis Championships boldly signed on verso "
Wm. T. Tilden".
One small piece of tape at bottom of front.
Only such US Open Tennis "ticket" signed by Tilden that we have ever encountered.
Encapsulated by PSA/DNA who grades the Tilden signature a "9".
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