Nat Thornton
American tennis player
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Nathaniel Thornton was an American tennis player for the Atlanta Athletic Club.[1][2][3][4][5] He also played basketball, selected All-Southern in 1910.[6] He was elected to the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2024.[7] He won second place in doubles at the 1907 US Open, along with Brian Grant, Bitsy Grant's father. Thornton's picture hangs in Atlanta's largest tennis center, the Bitsy Grant Tennis Center.
