Trevor Fancutt (14 July 1934 – 23 December 2022) was a South African tennis player.
In 1960 Fancutt, partnering
Jan Lehane, won the mixed doubles title of the
Australian Championships, defeating
Christine Truman
Christine Clara Truman Janes (born 16 January 1941) is a former tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. She won a singles Grand Slam title at the French Championships in 1959 and was a finalist ...
and
Martin Mulligan in straight sets.
In 1957, he played in two ties for the South African
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries, making it the world's largest annual ...
team and compiled a match record of two wins and two losses.
In August 1957, he beat
Alex Olmedo in the final of the international tournament in
Kitzbühel
Kitzbühel (, also: ; ) is a town rights, medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol (state), Tyrol, Austria, about east of the state capital Innsbruck and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbüh ...
, Austria in three straight sets.
Fancutt married Australian singles semi finalist
Daphne Seeney. Two of their sons,
Charlie Fancutt and
Michael Fancutt, were professional tennis players who played on the main tour
(a third son Chris Fancutt played at challenger level).
Fancutt died on 23 December 2022, at the age of 88.
Grand Slam finals
Mixed doubles (1 title)
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1934 births
2022 deaths
South African emigrants to Australia
South African male tennis players
Australian Championships (tennis) champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
People from Kokstad
Tennis players from KwaZulu-Natal
20th-century South African sportsmen