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T OTO BRUGNON, French tennis champion, one of the world's greatest doubles players, who formed a part of the "Four Musketeers" (the others were Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, and René Lacoste) in the 1920s and early '30s.
Brugnon won the French singles championship in 1921, but he was most famous for his supremacy in doubles.
Brugnon's shy manner fit in well with the ebullience of Borotra, and they formed a popular tennis team, playing together until 1939; Brugnon played for the last time at Wimbledon in 1948.
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 Brugnon, Jacques --  Encyclopædia Britannica
byname Toto Brugnon French tennis champion, one of the world's greatest doubles players, who formed a part of the “ Four Musketeers” (the others were Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, and René Lacoste) in the 1920s and early '30s.
July 17, 1994, Arbonne), was one of the renowned "Four Musketeers"--Borotra, René Lacoste, Jacques Brugnon, and Henri...
The French composer Jacques Ibert is admired for his colorful, technically polished, and often witty neoclassical style.
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 History of Lawn Tennis, Articles
J ean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon, the two lesser know, but very valuable part of the foursome, also had important wins between them.
Brugnon, primarily a doubles specialist, was a chameleon, completing an effective team when any one of his compatriots were in need.
Just as it is today, a Grand Slam title was the mark of greatness, and the Frenchmen as a team, won a total of 51 singles and doubles crowns, 49 of them (except Cochet's 1922 French singles and 1945 doubles win) within the 12 years between 1924 and 1936.
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Voici les témoignages écrits qui justifient que Jacques Brugnon avait un grand coup droit.
Jacques Brugnon va attaquer la balle en donnant un maximum d'effet lifté.
La raquette de Brugnon est positionnée un peu après l'impact, il y a encore une parfaite répartition de l'effort avec participation du bras, de l'avant-bras et du poignet.
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 Dwight´s Little Pot - The Four Musketeers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
For Cochet, Brugnon and Borotra they joined Lacoste as perhaps the greatest Davis Cup quartet in history, over a period of eight years, they built on Dwight Davis´s ethos of a truly international competition where great duels would be fought.
Jacques "Toto" Brugnon was the elder of France's celebrated Four Musketeers.
and Jacques Brugnon in the origin of the Four Musketeers.
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 Jacques Brugnon Tennis Player
Jacques "Toto" Brugnon was known for his large repertoire of strokes, -
Little Mo - of the Four Musketeers (with Jean Borotra, Ren Lacoste, and Jacques Brugnon), helped establish the French domination of world tennis in the mid-1920s.
HickokSports.com - History - Tennis - Wimbledon Doubles Champions This document is a history of the Wimbledon doubles tennis championships, - 1926, Jacques Brugnon and Henri Cochet.
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 The Four Musketeers
They dominated the game of tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s, winning numerous Grand Slam titles and leading France to six straight Davis Cup wins, 1927 through 1932.
Brugnon was primarily a doubles specialist, but the other three, Borotra, Cochet, and Lacoste, won many singles titles.
Between them, they won 3 United States Championships at Forest Hills, 6 consecutive Wimbledon titles from 1924 through 1929, and 10 titles in 11 years at the French Championships, 1922 through 1932.
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 Jacques Brugnon, 1976 Enshrinee: International Tennis Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Jacques "Toto" Brugnon was the elder of France's celebrated Four Musketeers who won the Davis Cup in 1927 from the U.S., and kept it six years.
He preceded the other three-- Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, René Lacoste --as an Internationalist, playing first on the Cup team in 1921.
Wallis Myers, the connoisseur, wrote: "Brugnon is a player of rare stroke variety and touch." He was a quarterfinalist in 1927, and stands fourth among all male Wimbledonians with 129: 37-19 in singles, 69-16 in doubles, 23-16 in mixed.
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 Encyclopedia: Tennis
Other fine players of the pre-Open era include Maurice McLoughlin, "Little Bill" Johnston, the "Four Musketeers" ( Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet, and René Lacoste), Vinnie Richards, Jack Crawford, Vic Seixas, and Tony Trabert.
Jean Borotra (1898-1994) was a champion tennis player, one of the famous Four Musketeers from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Henri Cochet (1901-1987) was a champion tennis player, one of the famous Four Musketeers from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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 Four Musketeers Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The "Four Musketeers" were four French tennis players who, along with Bill Tilden dominated tennis of the late 1920s and early 1930s.
They were Jean Borotra (1898-1994), Jacques Brugnon (1895-1978), Henri Cochet (1901-1987), and René Lacoste (1904-1996).
Related Topics: Tennis, Bill Tilden, Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet, Ellsworth Vines, Fred Perry, Don Budge, International Tennis Hall of Fame, 1976, List of male tennis players,
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 The History of Tennis, Part 2
Four tennis champions, known as the "Musketeers", were virtually unbeatable: Jean Borotra, René Lacoste, Henri Cochet, and Jacques Brugnon.
The Four Musketeers with tournament director Pierre Gillan (from left): Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet, Gillan, René Lacoste and Jean Borotra.
Jacques "Toto" Brugnon was known for his large repertoire of strokes, as well as an extraordinary sense of feel and touch in his shots, which produced a brilliant artistic style.
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 1978 - Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre et gratuite
3 avril  : Jacques Chaban-Delmas président de l'Assemblée nationale.
6 décembre  : Appel de Cochin  : Jacques Chirac dénonce la politique européenne de Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
20 mars  : Jacques Brugnon, joueur de tennis
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 Four Musketeers --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
They were Jean Borotra (1898–1994), Jacques Brugnon (1895–1978), Henri Cochet (1901–87), and René Lacoste (1904–96).
Between 1922 and 1932 ten of the French Championships were won by Cochet, Lacoste, or Borotra.
A novel by French author Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers relates the adventures of four swashbuckling heroes who lived during the reigns of the French kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV.
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 Jacques Brugnon - Result for Jacques Brugnon - Meaning of Jacques Brugnon - Definition of Jacques Brugnon - Dictionary ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
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{{tennis stub}} * List of male tennis players Category:1895 births Brugnon, Jacques Category:1987 deaths Brugnon, Jacques Category:French tennis players Brugnon, Jacques de:Jacques Brugnon pl:Jacques Brugnon
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 Earl Fischer Database of St. Louisans
Theodora Frederica Eliza BRUHL was christened on 4 Mar 1837 in St Louis King Fr, St Louis, St Louis Co, MO. Parents: John BRUHL and Christina JACOBI.
Parents: Jacques B BRUNEL LaSablonniere and Helene BEAUGENOUX.
He was married to Helene BEAUGENOUX on 4 May 1771 in,, St Louis Distr.
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 BBC SPORT | TENNIS  | The history of the Davis Cup
Australasia then got in on the act before the USA again came to dominate, winning the trophy for seven straight years.
'The Four Musketeers', as the French team of Rene Lacoste, Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon were known, took over in the 1920s until the Great Britain team led by Fred Perry wrested the trophy from them by winning at Roland Garros.
Overall, the USA have won the tournament more times than any other country at 31, but no nation has dominated the competition for one period longer than Australia who won it 15 times in 18 years from 1950.
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 French Open Venue - Roland Garros   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Fittingly, the Roland Garros stadium was built as the direct result of a French tennis success.
In 1927,the four muskateers Jacques Brugnon, Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and Rene Lacoste beat the Americans on their home soil and brought home the Davis Cup.
However, there were no venues in France that could hold the crowds of spectators that were expected to turn-up for the Challenge Round the following year.
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 Australian Open notebook
For the French combination, it was a first major win and also their first doubles success together.
The last French team to win the men's doubles at the Australian Open was Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon.
Llodra and Santoro are only the second all-French pair to win a Grand Slam title in the Open Era of tennis, which started in 1968.
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 BBC SPORT | Tennis | French Open history
Suzanne Lenglen, who had won the title as a pre-war 15-year-old, took the tennis world by storm when she added six of the seven championships between 1920 and 1926.
The Davis Cup success of the French Musketeers, Jacques Brugnon, Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and René Lacoste, over America in 1927 required a new stadium to be built to host the following year's return tie.
So, having alternated between the Racing Club at Croix-Catelan and Stade Francais' courts at the Faisanderie in St Cloud's Park, the championships found their spiritual home at the Porte D'Auteuil.
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 WIMBLEDON: A POTTED HISTORY: Sporting Life - Federer v Roddick Live, Live Point-by-point Coverage, Wimbledon 2005, Live ...
Such popularity was achieved despite British players playing second fiddle to overseas entrants and each year during the 1920s France produced at least one singles champion.
Towards the end of Suzanne Lenglen's reign, the famous Four Musketeers' - Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet and Rene Lacoste - appeared on the scene and during the next 10 years won six singles and five doubles titles between them.
A landmark was achieved in the championships of 1930 when Brame Hillyard became the first man to play wearing shorts.
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 MIPUNTO.COM | TEMAS | Roland Garros
En esta nueva etapa el escenario de la competencia se alternó entre el Stade Français y el Racing Club de Francia hasta la construcción del estadio Roland Garros en 1928.
El tenis francés empezaba a hacerse un espacio en el panorama internacional, que en 1927 fue capitalizado por René Lacoste, Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra y Jacques Brugnon, mejor conocidos como los Cuatro Mosqueteros.
En 1990 fue erigida la de Henri Cochet y en 1991 la de Jacques Brugnon.
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 BBC SPORT | Tennis | Argentina hails 'musketeers'
Argentines haven't paid attention this closely to tennis since Guillermo Vilas in the 1970s, Jose Luis Clerc in the 1980s and Gabriela Sabatini in the 1990s.
"Congratulations to the new musketeers," trumpeted the tenisargentina.com website, cheekily stealing the phrase first used to describe the great French quartet of Jacques Brugnon, Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and René Lacoste.
The "French musketeers" as they were known, pulled off one of the biggest Davis Cup shocks of all time when they won the trophy on American soil in 1927.
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 Les Bidasses s'en vont en guerre (Sadsacks Go to War)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Gérard, Phil, Jean and Jean-Guy soon realise that they are not cut out for military service.
Stuffed with visual jokes – most of which are original and work rather well – this film has retained both its naive charm and its capacity to entertain.
The sequence in which the famous four drag an oil pipe through a house and end up giving their commanding officer (the excellent Jacques Seiler) a skin colour change remains one of the funniest things in French film comedy ever.
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In 1925 the tournament became an international event.
In 1927, four French tennis players, Rene Lacoste, Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon defeated the United States in Davis Cup in Philadelphia.
The "Four Musketeers," would eventually lead France to six Davis Cup titles.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Whippings -- Apr. 04, 1927
The U. amateur indoor tennis tournament held in the Seventh Regiment Armory, Manhattan, again proved a purely French triumph.
Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon met Francis T. Hunter and Dr. George King in the doubles final; conquered, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3.
Borotra then whipped Brugnon in the singles, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3.
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 Jacques Bedeutung Vorname | style.at *** Leben mit style - Wellness, Urlaub, Hobby, Freizeit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Maler (Paris F) Gaillot, Jacques J, Religion/Kirche (Saint F) Gallimard, Jacques, 14.04.1825
Maler (Paris F) Ibert, Jacques F. Musiker (Paris F) Imbert, Jacques, 08.08.1868
Maler (Périgueux F) Lallement, Jacques G, Politiker (Cloyes sur Marne F) Lambert, Jacques, 02.03.1877
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 The Championships, Wimbledon 2005 - Grand Slam Tennis - Official Site by IBM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Each year during the twenties, France produced at least one singles champion.
Towards the end of Suzanne Lenglen's reign the famous 'Four Musketeers', Jean Borota, Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet and Rene Lacoste, appeared on the scene and during the next ten years won six titles and five doubles titles between them.
Britain's Kitty McKane (Godfree) won the Ladies' Singles in 1924 and 1926 and a year later Helen Wills of the United States stated her conquest.
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It is now widely forgotten that this shirt merchandiser, whose products infiltrated the globe, was a great tennis champion.
Rene Lacoste was the last survivor of the “Four Musketeers” of French tennis— Lacoste, Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon.
The Frenchmen won all six Wimbledon singles titles from 1924 to 1929.
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And on the male side there were the famous Musketeers who defeated the US to win the Davis Cup in 1927 and held on to the cup until 1933.
--Henri Cochet, Rene Lacoste, Jean Borotra, and Jacques Brugnon:
Borotra, known as the " Bounding Basque from Biarritz" always wore a blue beret on and off the court;
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