John Sheldon Olliff (1 December 1908 – 29 June 1951) was an English tennis player, author and sports journalist.
Olliff won 24 tournaments in his career as a tennis player such as: the Manchester Open (1928, 1929, 1931), the Irish Championships (1930), the Queen's Club Championships (1931) and the Surrey Grass Court Championships (1938). In addition he won single titles at the Westgate-on-Sea Tournament (1938) on hard asphalt. After the Second World War, he played a match for the British Davis Cup team in the first round against France in 1946. With Henry Billington, he lost against Marcel Bernard and Bernard Destremau.
After his active career, he took a job as a sportsjournalist at the Daily Telegraph and succeeded A. Wallis Myers as tennis correspondent. He died of a heart attack on the way to a match at Wimbledon on 29 June 1951. His successor at the Telegraph became Lance Tingay.
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