Inducted in 1958. Dave Freeman is recognized as the greatest badminton player of all time. He played the world’s best for fourteen years (1938-1949, 1953-1954) and never lost a match.
Other national champions from San Diego played him frequently and seldom, if ever, won even a game.
Freeman won eight U.S. Singles Championships from 1939-1942, from 1947-1949, and in 1953; the last after a four year hiatus from competition while he completed medical school.
A fierce and indefatigable competitor, he won the All-England Singles, the unofficial World Championship in 1949. He was a superb tennis player as well; winner of the 1938 National Junior Championship.
He retired from competition in 1954 to pursue his career as a neurosurgeon in San Diego.
