René de Buzelet (24 May 1907 – 8 April 1995) was a French

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 who was active during the 1920s and 30s.

Career

De Buzelet was a runner-up at the men's doubles event at the 1928 French Championships. Partnering

Henri Cochet Henri Jean Cochet (; 14 December 1901 – 1 April 1987) was a French tennis player. He was a world No. 1 ranked player, and a member of the famous " Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Born in ...

they lost the final in five sets to

Jean Borotra Jean Laurent Robert Borotra (, ; 13 August 1898 – 17 July 1994) was a French tennis champion. He was one of the " Four Musketeers" from his country who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Borotra was imprisoned in Itter Castle ...

and

Jacques Brugnon Jacques Marie Stanislas Jean Brugnon (; 11 May 1895 – 20 March 1978), nicknamed "Toto", was a French tennis player, one of the famous "The Four Musketeers (tennis), Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early ...

. In 1928 De Buzelet won the singles title at the

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, played at the Tennis Club de Paris, after a five-sets victory in the final against

Pierre Henri Landry Pierre Henri Landry (14 June 1899 – 7 December 1990) was a Russian-born French international tennis player. Landry competed once for the French team in the Davis Cup in 1926, defeating his opponent Colin Gregory in a dead rubber.

. He was a runner-up to

at the same event in 1933. At the Coupe de Noël indoor tournament in January 1929 De Buzelet and Cochet defeated the brothers Jean and Édouard Borotra to win the doubles title. De Buzelet and compatriot

Christian Boussus Christian Boussus (5 March 1908 – 12 August 2003) was a left-handed French tennis player who found success in the 1920s and 1930s. Tennis career He started playing amateur tennis in the late 1920s by entering one of his first tournaments ...

were runners-up at the 1931 German Open Tennis Championships after losing the final in fives sets to Walter Dessart and Eberhard Nourney. He competed at the

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in 1928 and 1929. In 1928 he reached the fourth round in singles event which he lost in straight sets to Umberto de Morpurgo. In the doubles event that year he teamed up with Édouard Borotra and lost in a five-set encounter in the third round to Frank Hunter and

Bill Tilden William Tatem Tilden II (February 10, 1893 – June 5, 1953), nicknamed "Big Bill", was an American tennis player. He was the world No. 1 amateur for six consecutive years, from 1920 to 1925, and was ranked as the world No. 1 professional by Ra ...

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (1 runner-up)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Buzelet, Rene de French male tennis players 1907 births 1995 deaths 20th-century French sportsmen