Gustave F. Touchard

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Gus Touchard

Full name

Gustave Fitzhugh Touchard

Jr.

Country (sports)

Born

January 11, 1888

New York

Died

September 5, 1918

(aged 30)

Toronto, Canada

Turned pro

1907 (amateur tour)

Retired

1915

Singles

Career record

74–22

Career titles

Highest ranking

No. 4 (U.S. ranking)

Grand Slam singles results

SF (

)

Doubles

Grand Slam doubles results

(1911)

Gustave "Gus" Fitzhugh Touchard Jr.

(or Gustav) (January 11, 1888 –

September 5, 1918) was an American

player in the early part of the

20th century. He was ranked as high as No. 4 in the United States during his

career.

Tennis career

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]

He played his first tennis tournament in 1907 at the

where he reached the semi finals.

In 1908 he reached his first final

at the New York Metropolitan Championships where he was defeated by Ross

Burchard.

In 1909 he went to win four singles titles that season including the

against

the Harlem

Tennis Club Invitation against

the Bronx County Championships

against

and the

against

He was also a finalist at the

the same

year.

At the

, Touchard paired with

to win the 1911

doubles title and reach the 1912 doubles final.

At the

in Cincinnati, Touchard won the 1912 singles title over

. He reached the singles final again in 1913, losing to

He won the

title three consecutive

years (1913, 1914 and 1915),

and won the singles title at the

in 1915.

In 1912, he reached the final of the

, losing to

Grand Slam finals

[

]

Doubles (1 title)

[

]

Result

Year

Championship

Surface

Partner

Opponents

Score

Win

1911

Grass

7–5, 13–

15, 6–2,

6–4

Grand Slam tournament performance timeline

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Key

DNQ

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification

round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent;

(NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Tournament

1908

1909

1910

1911

1912

1913

1914

Personal life

[

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He was born in New York on January 11, 1888 to Gustave and Margaret McPherson Touchard.

On October 11, 1911 he married Emeline Williams Holmes. The marriage resulted in at least one child, Emlen Holmes,

who was born May 24, 1914.

In July 1915, Touchard confessed to a charge of stealing 24 dozen golf balls from the sporting goods store where he

was employed.

He joined the

after having been turned down by the United States aviation

corps. He died in 1918 in

of a throat operation.

References

[

]

The Tennis Base

. Madrid: Tennismem SL

. Retrieved

August 25,

2023

[

]

. August 8, 1932. Archived from

on October 27, 2010

. Retrieved

August 20,

2010

Raymond

D. Little, 52, publisher, sportsman, onetime (1906) Davis Cup tennist, with Gustave F. Touchard national doubles champion in

1911; by his own hand (shotgun) in Manhattan.

. July 5, 1913

. Retrieved

August 20,

2010

W.S. McElroy of

Pittsburgh meets G.F. Touchard of New York in the challenge round of the annual tri-state lawn tennis championship tournament

today.

Imperial War Museums / Lives of the First World War

. Retrieved

June 13,

2025

Boston Evening Transcript

. July 1, 1915 – via

. September 6, 1918

. Retrieved

August 20,

2010

– via

... by the Toronto tennis players and members of the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club At ... been transferred to Leaside Camp

Toronto Lieut Touchard had competed at ...

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