Louis Paul Lebreton (October 19, 1875 in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

– March 31, 1960 in Paris) was a French tennis player. He was born

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...

and died in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

. He was three-time a runner-up in the singles event of the Amateur

French Championships The French Open (), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam tennis events eve ...

, losing in 1898 and 1899 to

Paul Aymé Paul Aymé (29 July 1869 in Marseille – 25 July 1962 in Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan are ...

, and in 1901 to

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 The French ...

. He also competed in the men's singles and doubles events at the

1900 Summer Olympics The 1900 Summer Olympics (), today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad () and also known as Paris 1900, were an international multi-sport event that took place in Paris, France, from 14 May to 28 October 1900. No opening or closin ...

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 3 (0-3)

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* 19th-century male tennis players French Championships (tennis) champions French male tennis players Olympic tennis players for France Tennis players at the 1900 Summer Olympics Tennis players from Paris 1875 births 1960 deaths {{France-tennis-bio-stub