Full name | Pierre Henri Landry |
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Country (sports) | France |
Born | (1899-06-14)14 June 1899 Moscow, Russian Empire |
Died | 7 December 1990(1990-12-07) (aged 91) |
Singles | |
Grand Slam singles results | |
French Open | 4R (1926) |
Wimbledon | QF (1929) |
US Open | 1R (1928) |
Doubles | |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Wimbledon | QF (1931) |
Mixed doubles | |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
Wimbledon | 4R (1930) |
Pierre Henri Landry (14 June 1899 – 7 December 1990) was a Russian-born French international tennis player.
Landry competed once for the French team in the Davis Cup in 1926, defeating his opponent Colin Gregory in a dead rubber. In 1929, Landry beat Gregory (who won the Australian championships that year) at Wimbledon, before losing to Bill Tilden in the quarter finals. In 1932 he was ranked 14th in the French rankings.
He married Nelly Adamson, a Belgian tennis player, on 8 February 1937 in Bruges.
References
- "matchID – Pierre Henri Landry". Fichier des décès (in French). Retrieved 17 December 2022.
- Pierre Henri Landry at daviscup.com
- "Draws Archive". Wimbledon.com. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
- Béla Kehrling, ed. (29 February 1932). "Külföldi hírek" [International news] (PDF). Tennisz és Golf (in Hungarian). IV (2). Budapest, Hungary: Egyesült Kő-, Könyvnyomda, Könyv- és Lapkiadó Rt: 29. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
- "Archiefbankbrugge > Akten burgerlijke stand > 1_Brugge > Huwelijken > 1937 > Akte 54". Archiefbank Brugge (in Dutch).
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