1929 French Championships – Men's doubles

Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon were the defending champions but they split up and Borotra teamed up with René Lacoste and Brugnon partnered with Henri Cochet. The final saw the encounter of these teams known all together as the Four Musketeers with the former pair clinching the title.

Men's doubles
1929 French Championships
Final
ChampionFrance René Lacoste
France Jean Borotra
Runner-upFrance Henri Cochet
France Jacques Brugnon
Score6–3, 3–6, 6–3, 3–6, 8–6
Events
Singles men women
Doubles men women
← 1928 · French Championships · 1930 →
Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet (up), the runner-up for the event; Jean Borotra (down-left) and René Lacoste (down-right) the triumphant doubles players

Seeds

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Every but 16 teams (neither the third and four seeds) received a bye into the second round.

Draw

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Finals

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Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
                     
1   Tilden
  Hunter
3 6 6 6
  Kehrling
  Kleinschroth
6 3 1 4
1   Tilden
  Hunter
3 2 6 3
5   Lacoste
  Borotra
6 6 3 6
5   Lacoste
  Borotra
2 6 1 6 6
  De Morpurgo
  del Bono
6 2 6 4 3
5   Lacoste
  Borotra
6 3 6 3 8
2   Cochet
  Brugnon
3 6 3 6 6
  Gregory
  Collins
6 2 6 6
8   de Buzelet
  Boussus
3 6 2 3
  Gregory
  Collins
3 4 3
2   Cochet
  Brugnon
6 6 6
  Timmer
  O. von Salm-Hoogstraeten
2 2 7
2   Cochet
  Brugnon
6 6 9

Top half

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Section 1

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First round Second round Third round Quarterfinals
1   Tilden
  Hunter
6 6 6
  Rasmussen
  Nielsen
0 1 0
1   Tilden
  Hunter
6 4 6 6
  É Borotra
  Coen
1 6 2 2
  É Borotra
  Coen
6 11 8
  Zahar
  Danon
2 9 6
1   Tilden
  Hunter
3 6 6 6
  Kehrling
  Kleinschroth
6 3 1 4
  Kehrling
  Kleinschroth
w/o
  Zerlendis
  Zafiropoulo
  Kehrling
  Kleinschroth
2 6 9 6 6
7   du Plaix
  Rodel
6 1 11 2 4
  Olliff
  Austin
8 7 7 3 2
7   du Plaix
  Rodel
10 5 5 6 6

Section 2

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First round Second round Third round Quarterfinals
5   Lacoste
  Borotra
6 6 6
  Fyzee
  Misu
0 3 2
5   Lacoste
  Borotra
2 7 5 6 6
  Moldenhauer
  Prenn
6 5 7 2 2
  Moldenhauer
  Prenn
4 6 6 4 6
  Benny Berthet
  Jean Lesueur
6 3 3 6 1
5   Lacoste
  Borotra
2 6 1 6 6
  Umberto De Morpurgo
  Alberto del Bono
6 6 6   De Morpurgo
  del Bono
6 2 6 4 3
Edmond-Blanc
  Nicolas Magaloff
3 2 4   De Morpurgo
  del Bono
6 6 6
  Henri Reynaud
  Denis Laurent
6 6 6   Reynaud
  Laurent
3 4 1
  Charles Aeschlimann
  Ernst
2 1 3   De Morpurgo
  del Bono
6 5 6 6
7   Domingo Torralva-Ponsa
  Luis Torralva-Ponsa
3 6 7 7   D Torralva-Ponsa
  L Torralva-Ponsa
3 7 2 3
  Jean Augustin
  François Terrier
6 4 5 5   D Torralva-Ponsa
  L Torralva-Ponsa
4 2 7 7 6
  Arthur Wallis Myers
Hunt
2 2 6 7 1 4   Roche
  Joba
6 6 5 5 1
4   André Roche
  Pierre Joba
6 6 1 5 6

Bottom half

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Section 3

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First round Second round Third round Quarterfinals
3   Leonardo Bonzi
  Clemente Serventi
6 8 6
  E. Goldschmidt
  J. Converse
1 6 3 3   Bonzi
  Serventi
2 5 13
  Georges Glasser
  André Martin-Legeay
1 4 2   Gregory
  Collins
6 7 15
  Colin Gregory
  Ian Collins
6 6 6   Gregory
  Collins
6 6 0 6
  A.G. Rawlins
  Homer Levinson
7 2 3 4   Gallepe
  Aslangul
1 2 6 2
  Paul Féret
  Marcel Cousin
5 6 6 6   Féret
  Cousin
2 2 6 6 3
  Jean Pastré
  Jacques Deniau
0 4 3   Gallepe
  Aslangul
6 6 2 1 6
  René Gallepe
  Léonce Aslangul
6 6 6   Gregory
  Collins
6 2 6 6
8   de Buzelet
  Boussus
3 6 2 3
  Robbins
  Salm-Hoogstraeten
  Danet
  George
w/o
  Danet
  George
5 1 4
8   de Buzelet
  Boussus
7 6 6
  Fuchs
  Wetzel
4 1 2
8   de Buzelet
  Boussus
6 6 6

Section 4

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First round Second round Third round Quarterfinals
6   Menzel
  Malaček
6 6 6
  Thurneyssen
  Gentien
1 2 1
6   Menzel
  Malacek
4 3 3
  Timmer
  O. von Salm-Hoogstraeten
6 6 6
  de Borman
  Toussaint
  Timmer
  O. von Salm-Hoogstraeten
w/o
  Timmer
  O. von Salm-Hoogstraeten
2 2 7
2   Cochet
  Brugnon
6 6 9
  Landau
  Broquedis
4 4 1
  Grandguillot
  Covington
6 6 6
  Grandguillot
  Covington
2 4 4
2   Cochet
  Brugnon
6 6 6
  Matejka
  Artens
4 4 4
2   Cochet
  Brugnon
6 6 6

Sources

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Béla Kehrling, ed. (10 June 1929). "A férfi páros mezőnye [The doubles draw]" (in Hungarian) (pdf). Tennisz és Golf. I (Budapest, Hungary: Bethlen Gábor Irod. és Nyomdai RT) 3: 67. Retrieved September 22, 2012.