Eric Peters (tennis)

Eric Conrad Peters (10 August 1903 – 28 December 1985) was a British tennis player.

An Oxford graduate, Peters played a patient, defensive brand of tennis. He was active in the late 1920s to 1930s, and was featured regularly at Wimbledon.^[1] He made the mixed doubles quarter-finals of the 1930 Wimbledon Championships with Elsie Pittman. His most famous victory was over Bill Tilden at Cannes in 1930, becoming the first British amateur to defeat the American.^[2] He also had a career win over Bunny Austin and once took Jean Borotra to five sets.^[3]

Peters, who was involved in his family's brewery business, married tennis player Effie Hemmant in 1932.^[4]