Henri Cochet biography
Henri Cochet, (born Dec. 14, 1901, Lyon, Fr.—died April 1, 1987, Saint-Germain-en-Laye), French tennis participant who, as one of many Four Musketeers (with Jean Borotra, René Lacoste, and Jacques Brugnon), helped set up the French domination of world tennis within the mid-Twenties.
Cochet’s father was the secretary of an area tennis courtroom, and as a youth Cochet spent a lot time chasing balls and practising within the membership’s off-hours. In 1921 he moved to Paris, the place he gained the indoor courtroom championships and the 1922 French championships. With the opposite three “musketeers,” he helped safe the Davis Cup for France six consecutive instances (1927–32). In 1928 he turned one of many high world gamers. Cochet additionally gained the French championship 5 instances (1922, 1926, 1928, 1930, and 1932) and Wimbledon twice (1927 and 1929).
One of Cochet’s best-known matches was his defeat of Bill Tilden for the 1926 U.S. championship, stopping Tilden from successful the occasion for the seventh straight 12 months. Cochet additionally gained a number of doubles titles within the late Twenties. Although he turned skilled in 1933, he was reinstated as an novice in 1945. He and the opposite “musketeers” had been elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1976. Cochet revealed quite a few books about tennis and produced a movie on the historical past of tennis, and in his later years he operated a sporting-goods retailer.