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- 1
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- L' éducation générale et les sports
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Finland
- Active from
- 1865-12-08
- Active to
- 1957-09-20
Discography
- Symphony no. 5 in E-flat major / Pohjola's Daughter1938
- Sibelius: Finlandia / The Swan of Tuonela / Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C-sharp minor / Prelude in G major / Prelude in G minor1950
- Symphony no. 7 in C, op. 105 / Karelia Suite, op. 111953
- Symphony no. 4 in A minor / Tapiola1954
- Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies, op. 34 / Sibelius: Finlandia, op. 261956
- Finlandia: Music of Grieg and Sibelius1959
- Symphony no. 21959
- Liszt: Les Préludes / Smetana: The Moldau / Moussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain / Sibelius: Valse triste1961
- Symphony no. 1 in E minor1962
- Finlandia: Music of Sibelius1963
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 2016 · cited 23,677x
- Numerical integration of the cartesian equations of motion of a system with constraints: molecular dynamics of n-alkanes
· 1977 · cited 19,860x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Full name
- Jean Laurent Robert Borotra
- Country sports
- France
- Born
- ( 1898-08-13 ) 13 August 1898, Biarritz , France
- Died
- 17 July 1994 (1994-07-17) (aged 95), Arbonne , France
- Height
- 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
- Turned pro
- 1920 (amateur tour)
- Plays
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Int tennis hof
- 1976 ( member page )
- Career record
- 654–127 (83.7%)
- Highest ranking
- No. 2 (1926 , A. Wallis Myers )
- Australian open
- W ( 1928 )
- French open
- W ( 1931 )
- Wimbledon
- W ( 1924 , 1926 )
- Us open
- F ( 1926 )
- Whcc
- SF ( 1922 )
- Wccc
- F ( 1922 )
- Olympic games
- SF – 4th ( 1924 )
- Davis cup
- W ( 1927 , 1928 , 1929 , 1930 , 1931 , 1932 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Team
- _Retired Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- France
via TheSportsDB
~6 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Jean Laurent Robert Borotra ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʁɔbɛʁ bɔ.ʁotʁa], Basque pronunciation: [borotɾa]; 13 August 1898 – 17 July 1994) was a French tennis champion. He was one of the "Four Musketeers" from his country who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Borotra was imprisoned in Itter Castle during the latter years of World War II and subsequently fought in the Battle for Castle Itter.
Career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jean Borotra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.