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Marcel Gustave Arsène Vacherot (11 February 1881 – 24 May 1975) was a
tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player. He competed for
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. His elder brother
André Vacherot André Pierre Aurèle Gaston Vacherot (5 June 1877 in Paris, France – 22 February 1924 in Rouen, France) was a French male tennis player. He is best remembered for having won the men's singles event of the French Championships on four occasi ...
was an even more successful tennis player, winning the French Championships six times (four singles and two doubles). The two brothers were grandsons of the french philosopher
Étienne Vacherot Étienne Vacherot (29 July 180928 July 1897) was a French philosophical writer. Life Vacherot was born of peasant parentage at Torcenay, near Langres in the Haute-Marne ''département'' of France. He was educated at the École Normale, and retu ...
.Family tree of Étienne Vacherot
Marcel is noticed as grandson (André is missing), published at the Geneanet website. Vacherot won the men's doubles final of the Amateur
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in 1898 along with
Xenophon Kasdaglis Xenophon Emmanuel Kasdaglis, or ''Xenophon Casdagli'', (Greek: Ξενοφών Εμμανουήλ Κάσδαγλης; 27 February 1880 – 2 May 1943) was an Egyptiote Greek – later a British citizen – tennis player.singles final over Max Decugis.


Grand Slam finals


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French male tennis players 1881 births 1975 deaths {{France-tennis-bio-stub