1929 French Championships – Men's Doubles

Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet (up), the runner-up for the event; Jean Borotra (down-left) and René Lacoste (down-right) the triumphant doubles players

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 altogether as the Four Musketeers with the former pair clinching the title.

Seeds

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

Draw

Key

Finals

	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

Section 1

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

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
	Domingo Torralva-Ponsa   Luis Torralva-Ponsa	3	6	7	7														D Torralva-Ponsa   L Torralva-Ponsa	3	7	2	3
	Jean Augustin   Francois 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

Section 3

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   Leonce 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

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

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.