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Country (sports)
  
Denmark

Name
  
Anker Jacobsen

Wimbledon
  
2R (1932–34)

Role
  
Tennis Player

Wimbledon
  
1R (1932–34)

Died
  
1975

Wimbledon
  
2R (1933)


Born
  
17 July 1911 (
1911-07-17
)

Anker Jacobsen (17 July 1911 – 1975) was a Danish tennis player who was active during the 1930s and 1940s.

Career

Jacobsen, a member of Copenhagen's KB, played at Wimbledon from 1932 to 1934 but lost his first match in each year. He was a member of the Danish Davis Cup team during the same period where he could win four out of eight matches.

Jacobsen won numerous titles at the Danish championships until 1949:

  • outdoors:
  • singles: 1933, 1934, 1936–1941
  • doubles: 1947, 1949
  • mixed doubles: 1937–1940, 1941, 1942
  • indoors:
  • singles: 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1943
  • doubles: 1943, 1944 1947, 1949
  • mixed doubles: 1936, 1938–1940, 1942

    • References

    Anker Jacobsen Wikipedia
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