Charles Raymond Davys Tuckey (15 June 1910 – 15 October 2005) was an

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player. Raymond Tuckey and Pat Hughes won the doubles in

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in 1936, defeating Charles Hare and

Frank Wilde Frank Herbert David Wilde (1 March 1911 – 6 February 1982) was a British tennis and table tennis player who played in the Davis Cup. He reached the final of the Wimbledon Championships on three occasions, twice in the men's doubles and once i ...

in five sets. In 1937 he again reached the men's doubles finals at Wimbledon but this time lost with Pat Hughes against American team of

Don Budge John Donald Budge (June 13, 1915 – January 26, 2000) was an American tennis player. He is most famous as the first tennis player — male or female — to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in one year and complete the Grand Slam. Budge was ...

and

Gene Mako Constantine "Gene" Mako ( ; January 24, 1916 – June 14, 2013) was an American tennis player and art gallery owner. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He won four Grand Slam doubles titles in the 1930s. Mako was inducted into the International T ...

in four sets. He was part of the winning British

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team in 1935 (against the US) and 1936 (against Australia) and of the 1937 team that lost the final to the US. His mother,

Agnes Tuckey Agnes Katherine Raymond Tuckey (née Daniell; 8 July 1877 – 13 May 1972) was an English tennis player. With Hope Crisp, she was the winner of the first Wimbledon mixed doubles in 1913. In 1906 she married Charles Orpen Tuckey who taught Ma ...

, was, with

Hope Crisp Hope Crisp (6 February 1884 – 25 March 1950), was an English tennis player. With Agnes Tuckey he was the first winner of the Wimbledon mixed doubles in 1913. Education Educated at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet, he went up to St Catharine' ...

, the first winner of the Wimbledon

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in 1913. Agnes, when in her fifties, partnered Raymond in the mixed doubles in 1931 and 1932, the only instance of a parent and child teaming up at the championships. His sister,

Kay Tuckey Katherine "Kay" Tuckey, also known by her married name Kay Maule, (1921/1922 – 14 May 2016) was an English female tennis player who was active from the second half of the 1940s until the early 1950s. Early life Tuckey was born in Godalming, ...

, was also a tennis player.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

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* * * 1910 births 2005 deaths English male tennis players British male tennis players Sportspeople from Godalming Wimbledon champions (pre-Open Era) Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles Tennis players from Surrey 20th-century English sportsmen {{England-tennis-bio-stub