Jean Borotra, the Bounding Basque

Borotra (right), with Jacques Brugnon a great doubles player

Jean Robert Borotra (born on August 13, 1898 in Domaine du Pouy, near Biarritz Рdied on June 17, 1994 in Arbonne) was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Known as "the Bounding Basque", he won four Grand Slam singles titles in the French, Australian, and British championships, failing to win only in the American championships. His first appearance was in the French Davis Cup team of 1921. Image File history File links Borotra. ... Image File history File links Borotra. ... Image File history File links Brugnon_and_Borotra. ... Image File history File links Brugnon_and_Borotra. ... Jacques Toto Brugnon (May 11, 1895 - March 20, 1978) was a champion tennis player, one of the famous Four Musketeers from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. ... August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining. ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Tourist Office Hotel du Palais or Eugenie Palace La Grande Plage, the towns largest beach Biarritz is a town and commune which lies on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast, in southwestern France. ... June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Arbonne (Basque: Arbona) is a village and commune of the Pyr̩n̩es-Atlantiques d̩partement, in southwestern France. ... A tennis net Tennis is a game played between either two players (singles) or two teams of two players (doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponents court. ... The Four Musketeers were four tennis players from France, given their name from the Alexandre Dumas story The Three Musketeers. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A Grand Slam is a term in tennis used to denote winning all four of the following championship titles in the same year: Australian Open French Open Wimbledon U.S. Open These tournaments are therefore also known as the Grand Slam tournaments, and rank as the most important tennis tournaments... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

The Four Musketeers were inducted simultaneously into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1976. The International Tennis Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit tennis museum at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It maintains a Hall of Fame for prominent personalities and players from the tennis world. ... Newport as seen from the International Space Station. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...

Grand Slam record

Borotra and Henri Cochet, another great singles player

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• Singles champion: 1928
• Doubles champion: 1928

French Championships The French Open, officially the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (English: Roland Garros Tournament), is a tennis event held over two weeks between mid May and early June in Paris, France, and is the second of the Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar. ...

• Singles champion: 1924, 1931
• Singles finalist: 1925, 1929
• Doubles champion: 1925, 1928, 1929, 1934, 1936
• Doubles finalist: 1927
• Mixed Doubles champion: 1927, 1934

Borotra, Cochet, and Lacoste, the 3 greatest of the Musketeers in French cigarette caricatures

Wimbledon Championships Image File history File links 3_Musketeers_cropped. ... Image File history File links 3_Musketeers_cropped. ... Wimbledon logo The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly referred to as simply Wimbledon, is the oldest and arguably most prestigious event in the sport of tennis. ...

• Singles champion: 1924, 1926
• Singles finalist 1925, 27, 29.
• Doubles champion: 1925, 1932, 1933
• Mixed Doubles champion: 1925

U.S. Championship Recently, (as of September 2006) the worlds #1 Roger Federer won his third straight U.S. Open Championship. ...

• Singles finalist: 1926
• Mixed Doubles champion: 1926

External links

• International Tennis Hall of Fame profile