Henri Cochet was a French tennis player, born in Villeurbanne on 14 December 1901 and dead in Paris on 1 April 1987. One of the Four Musketeers who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he won 22 majors in all, including seven Grand Slam singles titles, five in doubles and three in mixed doubles. He won singles and doubles titles on clay, grass and wood, and the tennis writer A. Wallis Myers ranked him world number one for four straight years from 1928 to 1931. His father was a groundkeeper at a Lyon tennis club where Henri worked as a ball boy and got to practise for free. He turned professional in 1933 and was reinstated as an amateur in 1945. The Four Musketeers were inducted together into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1976.
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A month later he clinched his first non-francophone title in the 1926 Wimbledon Championships doubles playing with Jacques Brugnon.
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The French International Championships of that year marked the first instance of an all-Four Musketeers final in the doubles of the Championships where Brugnon and Lacoste were victorious against Cochet and Borotra.
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