Lewis Seymour Deane (12 March 1882 – 18 December 1934) was an Anglo-Indian tennis player.
Born in
Meerut, Deane was the second son of
British Indian Army
The British Indian Army, commonly referred to as the Indian Army, was the main military of the British Raj before its dissolution in 1947. It was responsible for the defence of the British Indian Empire, including the princely states, which co ...
captain George Deane of the
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Individual units
* 1st Bengal Lancers
* 2nd Bengal Lancers
* 4th Bengal Lancers
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.
Deane, a champion of
Bengal and
Punjab, played in India's first ever
Davis Cup
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team in 1921, with the side going through to the semi-finals. He twice reached the
Wimbledon
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* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
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men's doubles semi-finals (with
Sydney Jacob in 1921 &
Hassan Ali Fyzee
Hassan-Ali Fyzee (9 October 1879 – 1 January 1962) was an Indian tennis, badminton, and table tennis player.
Table tennis
Hassan-Ali Fyzee took part in the first 1926 World Table Tennis Championships in London. Here he won the bronze medal ...
in 1923) and was a mixed doubles finalist at the
1923 Wimbledon Championships
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Grand Slam finals
Mixed doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
See also
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List of India Davis Cup team representatives
References
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1882 births
1934 deaths
Indian male tennis players
Sportspeople from Meerut
British people in colonial India