Kenneth Wagg

Kenneth Arthur Wagg was an English rackets player, banker, and theatrical producer. Wagg became a noted player of rackets while at Eton. Wagg formed a doubles partnership with Ian Akers-Douglas. He and Akers-Douglas won the Public Schools championship of 1927 and the Noel Bruce Cup in 1932. The pair were victorious in the national Amateur Doubles championship of 1932, 1933 and 1935. Wagg was part of the inaugural British rackets tour of the United States following the Second World War. He was victorious in the Army rackets tournament with Cosmo Crawley. Wagg reached the semi-finals of the British rackets championship in 1952, also winning the US doubles title that year. Wagg and Geoffrey Atkins lost the final of the US doubles in 1953. In 1958 Wagg won the US doubles title with Atkins. The New York Times described the match as "one of the most remarkable feats recorded on a rackets court" as Wagg and Atkins came back from 7–0 in the first game with "the greatest single hand of rackets within memory" as their opponents, the American players Robert Grant and Clarence Pell, "found themselves helpless against the absolute perfection, cleverness and finality of the British pair". Wagg and Atkins won the US doubles championship again in 1961 and won the individual Canadian title in 1960.