Lewis Deane

Lewis Deane

Full name	Lewis Seymour Deane
Country (sports)	British India
Born	(1882-03-12)12 March 1882
Died	18 December 1934(1934-12-18) (aged 52)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Wimbledon	1R (1911, 1921, 1923)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon	SF (1921, 1923)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	F (1923)

Lewis Seymour Deane (12 March 1882 – 18 December 1934) was an Anglo-Indian tennis player.^[1]

Born in Meerut, Deane was the second son of British Indian Army captain George Deane of the Bengal Lancers.^[2]

Deane, a champion of Bengal and Punjab, played in India's first ever Davis Cup team in 1921, with the side going through to the semi-finals.^[3] He twice reached the Wimbledon men's doubles semi-finals (with Sydney Jacob in 1921 & Hassan Ali Fyzee in 1923) and was a mixed doubles finalist at the 1923 Wimbledon Championships.^[4]

Grand Slam finals

Mixed doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1923	Wimbledon	Grass	Dorothy Shepherd-Barron	Elizabeth Ryan Randolph Lycett	4–6, 5–7

See also

• List of India Davis Cup team representatives

References

1. "Victory Of F.G. Lowe". The Daily Telegraph. 2 June 1921.
2. "Henry Selby Deane". Ipswich War Memorial. 10 October 2019.
3. Muralidharan, Ashwin (16 September 2016). "India's long history at the Davis Cup". Sportskeeda.
4. "Norton's Shrewd Tactics". The Daily Telegraph. 1 July 1921.

External links

• Lewis Deane at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Lewis Deane at the Davis Cup
• Lewis Deane at the International Tennis Federation