Hector Fisher
Full name: Hector Cosmo Fisher
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| Bio | He was an English-Swiss-Thai tennis player and footballer. Cosmo Fisher was born in Burma in 1901 and baptised in Bassein, Bengal, British India in August 1902. He was the son of Henry Cosmo-Fisher (1874–1918) and Annie Fisher. His father was an Anglo-Indian born in Bangalore. He had a younger brother, Colin Cosmo-Fisher (1903-1964). He was described as a cosmopolitan "Burmese-Siamese-English-Swiss" athlete. Hector attended Oxford University, and played tennis there before representing Switzerland. He played several tournaments between 1923 and 1949. He played against the great champion Bill Tilden at the Wimbledon 1928 tournament. He represented Switzerland during his tennis career between 1931 and 1939, he reached the quarter-finals in 1934 and 1936. The 15 ties he has played take him to several European countries: Austria , Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Monaco. In singles, he has 19 wins for 10 losses and doubles 3 wins for 8 losses. In 1932 he beat Giorgio De Stefani, recent finalist of the French Open. He played the French Tennis Open in 1926, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936 and failed twice to reach the round of 16 by leading two sets to nothing in the sixteenths (1933, 1936). He participated in the Wimbledon tournament from 1923 to 1928 and from 1932 to 1939 in singles and doubles. He reached the quarterfinals in 1925, where he lost to Australian James Anderson. In doubles he reached the quarter-finals in 1928 with his Dutch partner Henk Timmer. They bow to the French pair composed of Jacques Brugnon and Henri Cochet. He won 4 times the Gstaad tournament in 1923, 1928, 1929 and 1931. Owner of the Cup of the first Gstaad tournament in 1915 which was handed over until the 1930s, he bequeathed it to the International Club of Switzerland which made it available for the tournament for the centenary edition in 2015. He also won tournaments in Wiesbaden (1929), in Bale (1930) and in Lugano (1940) as well as he was the finalist in Montreux in 1929. |
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