Jean Borotra
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Jean Robert Borotra (born on August 13, 1898 in Domaine du Pouy, near Biarritz – died 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.
The Four Musketeers were inducted simultaneously into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1976.
[edit] Grand Slam record
| Olympic medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's Tennis | |||
| Bronze | 1924 Paris | Doubles | |
- Singles champion: 1928
- Doubles champion: 1928
- Singles champion: 1924, 1931
- Singles finalist: 1925, 1929
- Doubles champion: 1925, 1928, 1929, 1934, 1936
- Doubles finalist: 1927
- Mixed Doubles champion: 1927, 1934
- Singles champion: 1924, 1926
- Singles finalist 1925, 27, 29.
- Doubles champion: 1925, 1932, 1933
- Mixed Doubles champion: 1925
- Singles finalist: 1926
- Mixed Doubles champion: 1926
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