Billy Knight, the British tennis player, died on April 17, 2026, aged 90.
Born William Arthur Knight in Northampton, England, on 12 November 1935, he competed on the amateur tour from 1951 to 1968 and won 47 career singles titles. He was a clay-court specialist whose results also included titles on grass and indoor wood courts.
Knight reached the quarter-finals of the 1959 French Championships and won the mixed doubles there with Yola Ramírez. As a junior, he won the boys’ singles titles at Wimbledon in 1953 and the Australian Championships in 1954, and earlier won the English singles table tennis title in 1951.
Billy Knight, 90, British tennis player.