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Only three players have previously won the same grand slam six times or more in succession: Richard Sears was the US Open champion for seven years in row from 1881 to 1887, William Renshaw went on a six-year winning sequence at Wimbledon, from 1881 to 1886, and then there was Tilden, whose six-year run at the US Open came between 1920 and 1925.
It should be said that Sears and Renshaw were winning their titles at the time when the ‘challenge round’ was in place, which meant that the defending champion went straight through to the final.
Tilden is also remembered for what he did off the court, for what were called “immoral offences”. He was sent to prison twice, the first time for having sex with a male teenage prostitute and the second time for groping a young male hitchhiker. When Tilden died, alone in a hotel room, he had just $100 to his name.