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Archibald Warden

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Full name: Archibald Adam Warden
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Bio Archibald Warden was Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery from the University of Glasgow in 1893, then Doctor of Medicine in 1898. He then officiated at the Western Infirmary under the orders of Hector Clare Cameron and Samson Gemmell. At the latter's invitation, he did his residency at the Hertford British Hospital in Levallois-Perret. He moved to Paris shortly after and obtained the French qualification of doctor of medicine in 1899. He then opened a practice in Cannes, villa Serpolette, where he practiced first only in winter and then full-time from the 1920s. and until his death in 1943. He was the seventh child and the fourth son of William Warden and Elizabeth Little Watt. Archibald had two daughters and two sons, one of whom, Kay, also played tennis.

As a tennis player, he won the French championship in doubles in 1896 and lost in the singles final the following year against Paul Aymé. He participated in the tennis events organized in Paris in 1900 as part of the Universal Exhibition. If he was eliminated in his first match in singles and doubles, he reached the semi-finals in mixed doubles with the Bohemian Hedwig Rosenbaum, a result which allows him to be credited with a bronze medal at the Olympic Games.
Subsequently, Warden played a few Parisian tournaments before evolving mainly on the Côte d'Azur where he participated in competitions until the 1930s. In 1936, at the age of 66, he put up a good resistance against to British champion Fred Perry who was returning from injury after a six-month absence from the Beau-Site courts in Cannes.

He was the member of the Olympique Club in Paris.
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