Henri Jean Cochet (1901 – 1987) was a former World number 1
tennis player, and one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France
who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Born in Villeurbanne, Rhône, Cochet won ten amateur Majors
and one professional Major (French Pro) during his singles career (achieving
victory on three different surfaces). He was ranked World No. 1 player for four
consecutive years, 1928 through 1931 by A. Wallis Myers. He turned professional
in 1933 but, after a less than stellar pro career, he was reinstated as an
amateur in 1946.
The Four Musketeers were inducted simultaneously into the
International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in 1976. Cochet died
at age 85 in Paris.
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