Carl Earn

Earn grew up in Los Angeles, and was Jewish.^[2] He graduated from the Manual Arts High School in 1939.^[3] He played tennis at Compton Junior College.^[3] In 1940 he won the doubles at the Ojai Tennis Tournament with Walter Bugg.^[4] He joined the U.S. Navy at the start of World War II and served until 1945.^[3]

At the Pacific Southwest Championships in September 1945 he reached the semifinals, after a victory in the quarterfinal over U.S. Championships finalist Bill Talbert.^[5] Earn turned professional in early 1946, a year after being honorably discharged from the Navy, and joined Bill Tilden's Professional Players Association.^[3] He won his professional debut match against Bobby Riggs in Omaha. The left-hander reached as high as world No. 7 in the professional ranks (confirmed by Tilden) in 1946.^[1] He reached the quarter-finals of the 1950 U.S. Pro Championships, where he lost to Jack Kramer.^[6]

He was the head professional at the Beverly Hills' Hillcrest Country Club and the Beverly Hills Tennis Club.^[7][3]

Earn was inducted into the Southern California Tennis Hall of Fame in 2002, and the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.^[8] The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) established a grant in his name in 2007 for student-athletes on their tennis team.^[9] He died at his home in Los Angeles.^[3]

• Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame