Happy 100th Birthday, Vic Seixas!

Vic Seixas, one of the most decorated and successful players in University of North Carolina men's tennis history and the oldest living Grand Slam champion, turned 100 years old on Wednesday August 30.

"It's a big one," Seixas joked to Tennis.com about his birthday. "It helps to keep yourself in shape."

More about Vic Seixas:
• One of the outstanding players in American tennis history
• Named an All-America in 1948 at Carolina
• Won the Wimbledon singles championship in 1953 and won the U.S. Open championship in 1954
• Went 63-3 at Carolina and won the Patterson Medal, the highest athletic honor awarded by UNC
• While at Carolina, Seixas, who played for coach John Kenfield from 1947-49, won the Southern Conference singles title in 1948 and finished as the runner-up in 1947 and 1949. He teamed with Clark Taylor to capture the league doubles crown in 1949. In 1948, he entered the NCAA Tournament as the top seed and won five matches in the tournament before dropping the championship match to the No. 1-ranked player in the U.S.
• That same year, Seixas was the seventh-ranked men's singles player in the U.S. amateur ranks. By 1952, he had attained the No. 1 singles ranking among American players.
• He played in 55 Davis Cup singles matches, the most of any American player in history when he retired from active play
• His 75 U.S. Open singles victories were a record that stood until broken by Jimmy Connors in 1985.

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