They lost to future International Tennis Hall of Famers Fred Alexander and Harold Hackett in 1906, and Raymond D. Little and Beals Wright in 1908.
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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in October 1874 to Henry & Edith Emerson, he moved to Yakima, Washington by 1911, where he owned an apple orchard.
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Still holds the record for most round of 16 appearances all-time at the Cincinnati Masters with 12 (tied with his brother, H. Truxtun Emerson, and Michael Chang)
Nat King Cole | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Emerson | Keith Emerson | Nat Fleischer | Roy Emerson | Nat Turner | Emerson String Quartet | Emerson College | William Emerson (minister) | Harry Emerson Fosdick | Emerson Radio | Emerson Fittipaldi | Steven Emerson | Nat Turner's slave rebellion | Nat Pendleton | Nat Hentoff | Hunt Emerson | Emerson Hart | Emerson Electric | Emerson Drive | Nat Coombs | Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town | Emerson, New Jersey | Emerson Ferreira da Rosa | David Emerson | Walter Emerson Baum | Rob Emerson | Ralph Waldo Emerson House |
Its list of winners reads like a "Who's Who'" of tennis - Nat Emerson, Beals Wright, Bill Tilden, George Lott, Bobby Riggs, Frank Parker, Bill Talbert, Tony Trabert, Barry MacKay, May Sutton, Alice Marble, Pauline Betz, and Dorothy Bundy, to name but a few.
The Club has had a number of nationally ranked players, the first being Nat Emerson who won the Tri-State Tournament when it was first played in 1899, and was a finalist several times afterward.