Pierre Henri Landry

Pierre Landry
Full namePierre Henri Landry
Country (sports) France
Born(1899-06-14)14 June 1899
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died7 December 1990(1990-12-07) (aged 91)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
French Open4R (1926)
WimbledonQF (1929)
US Open1R (1928)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
WimbledonQF (1931)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon4R (1930)

Pierre Henri Landry (14 June 1899 – 7 December 1990)[1] 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.[2] In 1929, Landry beat Gregory (who won the Australian championships that year) at Wimbledon, before losing to Bill Tilden in the quarter finals.[3] In 1932 he was ranked 14th in the French rankings.[4]

He married Nelly Adamson, a Belgian tennis player, on 8 February 1937 in Bruges.[5]

  1. ^ "matchID – Pierre Henri Landry". Fichier des décès (in French). Retrieved 17 December 2022.
  2. ^ Pierre Henri Landry at daviscup.com
  3. ^ "Draws Archive". Wimbledon.com. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Archiefbankbrugge > Akten burgerlijke stand > 1_Brugge > Huwelijken > 1937 > Akte 54". Archiefbank Brugge (in Dutch).