Edgar Moon

Edgar Moon

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Full name	Edgar Forest Moon
Country (sports)	Australia
Born	(1904-12-03)3 December 1904 Forest Hill, NSW Australia
Died	Greenslopes, Brisbane, Australia
Turned pro	1925 (amateur tour)
Retired	1940
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Singles
Career record	{{#property:P564}}
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	W (1930)
French Open	QF (1930)
Wimbledon	4R (1928)
US Open	1R (1928)
Doubles
Career record	{{#property:P555}}
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	W (1932)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	W (1929, 1934)
US Open	F (1928)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	SFEu (1930)

Edgar "Gar" Moon (3 December 1904 – 26 May 1976) was a tennis player from Australia who was best known for winning the 1930 Australian Championships Men's Singles title. He also won the 1932 Men's Doubles title with Jack Crawford. He won all three Men's titles at the Australian Championships.

Moon was introduced to tennis by his parents at an early age. He went to the Brisbane Grammar School where he was encouraged to play cricket but he preferred to play tennis on his parents' clay court. Moon was largely self-taught and practised his skills playing against family in Cabooltura where his father had a dairy farm.

Moon won his first national title at the 1929 Open when he teamed up with Daphne Akhurst to win the Mixed Doubles championship. In 1934, he won the Mixed Doubles title for a second time with partner Joan Hartigan.

In 1930, Moon won the Australian Open Men's Singles championship defeating Harry Hopman in the final 6–3, 6–1, 6–3. In 1932 the native of Queensland completed the triple, capturing the Men's Doubles title with partner Jack Crawford.

He played in two Davis Cup ties for the Australia Davis Cup team in 1930, against Switzerland and Ireland, and won all four of his singles matches.

Moon enlisted in the Australian Army on 17 March 1942 and reached the rank of corporal. He was discharged on 12 November 1945.

Grand Slam finals

Singles

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1930	Australian Championships	Harry Hopman	6–3, 6–1, 6–3

Doubles

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1932	Australian Championships	Jack Crawford	Harry Hopman Gerald Patterson	12–10, 6–3, 4–6, 6–4

Runner-ups (3)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1928	Australian Championships	Jim Willard	Jean Borotra Jacques Brugnon	2–6, 6–4, 4–6, 4–6
1929	Australian Championships	Jack Cummings	Jack Crawford Harry Hopman	1–6, 8–6, 6–4, 1–6, 3–6
1933	Australian Championships	Jack Crawford	Keith Gledhill Ellsworth Vines	4–6, 8–10, 2–6

External links

• Davis Cup – Player profile
• ITF – Player profile