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Sydney Montague Jacob
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Full name	Sydney Montague Jacob
Country (sports)	India
Born	(1879-10-28)28 October 1879 Dalhousie, British India
Died	14 February 1977(1977-02-14) (aged 97) Woldingham, Surrey, England
Turned pro	1907 (amateur tour)
Retired	1928
Career record	55–37^[1]
Career titles	15^[1]
Grand Slam singles results
French Open	SF (1925)
Wimbledon	QF (1925)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	QF (1924)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon	SF (1921)
Olympic Games	1R (1924)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	2R (1924, 1925, 1927)
Olympic Games	2R (1924)

Sydney Montague Jacob (28 October 1879 – 14 February 1977) was an Anglo-Indian tennis player who represented India at the Davis Cup and Olympic Games.^[2] He was active from 1907 to 1928 and won 15 career singles titles.^[1]

Career

He competed in the singles event at the 1924 Summer Olympics, reaching the quarterfinal in which he lost to Jean Borotra. With compatriot Mohammed Sleem he competed in the men's doubles event and reached the second round. He also competed in the mixed doubles event, with compatriot Nora Polley, but lost their first match in the second round after a bye in the first round.^[3]^[4] Jacob reached the semi-finals at the French championships in 1925, where he beat Jacques Brugnon and Andre Gobert, before losing to René Lacoste.^[5] He won the London Covered Court Championships two times in 1925 and 1927.

He published an autobiographical book titled Favour for Fools in a Decadent Empire: A Skeletal Autobiography.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Players: Jacob, Sydney Montague". The Tennis Base. Madrid: Tennismem SL. Archived from the original on 7 June 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
^ "Sydney Jacob". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 21 November 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
^ "Olympic Sports – Athletes – Sydney Jacob". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
^ Stan Rayan (14 July 2012). "When Polley made history in Paris". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
^ "French Open 1925". www.tennis.co.nf. Archived from the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^ Jacob, Sydney Montague (1986). Favour for Fools in a Decadent Empire. Archived from the original on 12 April 2024. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

External links

Sydney Jacob at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Sydney Jacob at the International Tennis Federation
Sydney Jacob at the Davis Cup
Sydney Jacob at Wimbledon
Sydney Jacob at tennisabstract.com
Website bio

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