Arthur Diemer Kool (30 January 1896 – 3 October 1959) was a Dutch
tennis
Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
player.
He won the singles title at the Dutch Tennis Championships in 1912 aged 16 and won the title again in 1915, 1916 and 1917. With
Gerard Scheurleer he became doubles champion in 1914, 1915 and with
Christiaan van Lennep in 1916 and 1923.
Diemer Kool won the national mixed doubles title in 1914, 1916 and 1917.
He played in 15 ties for the
Dutch Davis Cup team between 1920 and 1933 and compiled a 25–13 win-loss record.
Diemer Kool participated in the
1921 Wimbledon Championships
The 1921 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom
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where he reached the third round in the singles event in which he lost to
André Gobert
André Henri Gobert (30 September 1890 – 6 December 1951) was a tennis player from France. Gobert is a double Olympic tennis champion of 1912. At the 1912 Summer Olympics, Stockholm Games, he won both the men's singles and doubles indoor gold ...
in four sets. In the doubles event he partnered Christiaan van Lennep and also reached the third round, losing to
Alfred Beamish
Alfred Ernest Beamish (6 August 1879 – 28 February 1944) was a British tennis player born in Richmond, Surrey, England
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and
Frank Fisher.
Personal life
On 18 July 1918 he married tennis player Marie Bernardien de Bloeme in The Hague and they had five daughters.
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1896 births
1959 deaths
Dutch male tennis players
Sportspeople from Paramaribo