Perry beat the Czech Roderick Menzel in the quarter-final, Jack Crawford in the semi-final, and the German Baron Gottfried Von Cramm in straight sets in the final to retain his title as Men's Singles Champion for the second consecutive year. "To a man like Perry, who had a real Champion's make-up, once the goal had been achieved it should and would be reached again. He was the Champion, he looked the Champion, and he made every opponent feel that he was going to stay the Champion. He dropped a set here and there in 1935, one in the semis to Crawford who has wrested his Australian title from him, but there was no sense of danger ... In Paris he had beaten von Cramm on the slow surface of Roland Garros. He was quite certain he would beat him on the Centre Court and told Duncan Macaulay before the match, 'I shall beat him 6/2, 6/3, 6/4.' The score was actually 6/2, 6/4, 6/4" (Max Robertson Wimbledon, 1987, p. 96).