Jean Borotra

Jean Borotra was a French Basque tennis champion, born in Biarritz in 1898 and known as the Bounding Basque for his athletic, net-rushing style. He was one of the Four Musketeers of French tennis who dominated the game in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Borotra won four Grand Slam singles titles, at the French, Australian and All England championships, and his 1924 Wimbledon victory made him the first player from outside the English-speaking world to win that tournament. He failed to complete a career Grand Slam only because René Lacoste beat him in the U.S. Championships final. Imprisoned in Itter Castle during the later years of the Second World War, he took part in the Battle for Castle Itter. He later founded the International Committee for Fair Play, which now gives a trophy in his name, and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1976 alongside the other three Musketeers.