Theodore Mavrogordato
Mavrogordato in 1914
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| Full name | Theodore Michel Mavrogordato |
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| Country (sports) |
 United Kingdom
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| Born |
31 July 1883 London, England |
| Died | 24 August 1941 (aged 58) Limpsfield, Surrey, England |
| Turned pro | 1903 (amateur tour) |
| Retired | 1928 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Singles | |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Wimbledon | SF (1909, 1914, 1920) |
| Other tournaments | |
| WCCC | 3R (1920) |
| Olympic Games | 2R (1912In) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | F (1914) |
| Other doubles tournaments | |
| WCCC | W (1920) |
Theodore Michel Mavrogordato (31 July 1883 – 24 August 1941) was a tennis player from Great Britain who was active during the first decades of the 20th century.
Mavrogordato represented Oxford University in the 1904 and 1905 Oxford v. Cambridge matches.
He played his first Wimbledon singles' competition in 1904 and lost in the first round to Frederick Payn. In 1907 he reached the final of the All England Plate but was beaten by George Hillyard in two straight sets. His best achievement in the Wimbledon singles event was reaching the semi-final of the All-Comers tournament on three occasions. The first time was in 1909 when he lost in four sets to Major Ritchie. His second semi-final appearance came in 1914 and this time he lost in straight sets to German Otto Froitzheim. His last semi-final came in 1920, eleven years after the first, after defeating two–time U.S Championship winner R. Norris Williams in the quarterfinal. This time Japanese Zenzo Shimizu proved too strong. Over the following years he would make regular appearances at Wimbledon until his final participation in 1928.
He participated in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm and played in the indoor tournament. In the mixed doubles event he reached the second round with his partner, and future wife, Mabel Parton. In the singles and men's doubles event he lost in the first round.
Mavrogodato played for the British Davis Cup team in 1914 and won all his singles matches in the quarter- and semi-final. In the final against Australasia he only played the doubles match together with his partner James Cecil Parke which they lost to Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding. In 1919, after World War I, he played in the semi-final against South Africa and won his single match against Louis Raymond. He lost his second match, a dead rubber, against George Dodd.
Between 1905 and 1913 he won five titles at the Welsh Covered Court Championships. In 1909 Mavrogordato won the Scottish Championships. In 1912 he reached the final of the Northern Championships in Liverpool which he lost to J.C. Parke. In 1914 he won the doubles title at the British Covered Court Championships. Together with P.M. Davson they beat P. Hicks and W. Ingram in the final. Seven years later, in 1921, he again won the doubles title, this time partnering with P.M. Davson. In October 1919 he won the singles title of the London Covered Court Championships defeating Ritchie in the final.
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