Pierre Henri Landry (14 June 1899 – 7 December 1990) was a Russian-born French international

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player. Landry competed once for the French team in the

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in 1926, defeating his opponent Colin Gregory in a dead rubber.Pierre Henri Landry
at daviscup.com In 1929, Landry beat Gregory (who won the Australian championships that year) at Wimbledon, before losing to Bill Tilden in the quarter finals. In 1932 he was ranked 14th in the French rankings. He married Nelly Adamson, a Belgian tennis player, on 8 February 1937 in

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1899 births French male tennis players 1990 deaths Tennis players from Moscow Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France Date of death missing 20th-century French sportsmen {{france-tennis-bio-stub