Athar-Ali Fyzee (28 August 1883 – 3 November 1963) was an Indian international tennis and table tennis player.[1] He competed in the men's singles tennis tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[2] In a tennis career lasting 18 seasons from 1909 to 1934, he reached 21 finals and won 14 singles titles.
In a career lasting 18 seasons from 1909 to 1934, he reached 21 finals and won 14 singles titles.[4] In major grand slam tournaments his best result in the singles events was reaching the third round in the 1925 French Championships where he lost to René Lacoste and the 1926 Wimbledon Championships. He participated in 15 editions of the Wimbledon Championships between 1910 and 1933.[5]
In 1909 he played his first event, and won his title at the Wilderness Tournament at Southfields, Wandsworth, London on asphalt courts against Britain's Sydney Watts.
His other career singles highlights 1921 he won the Herga LTC Tournament at Harrow tournament on grass 3 times (1922-23, 1929), the North London Hard Courts Championships in 1921 on clay at Highbury, London against fellow countryman Cotah Ramaswami, and again in 1926. In 1923 he won the Roehampton Grass Courts at the Roehampton Club in London. His last tournament was at the North London Hardcourts in May 1938.[7]
