Lionel Brodie

Lionel Brodie
Country (sports) Australia
Born28 May 1917
Euroa, Australia
Died15 May 1995(1995-05-15) (aged 77)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQF (1939, 1946, 1947)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenSF (1947)[1]
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian OpenQF (1939)[1]
Well-known Australian sports men at Unarmed Combat Training School c.1942, including Lionel Brodie (far right).

Lionel Brodie (28 May 1917 – 15 May 1995)[2] was an Australian amateur tennis player who competed mainly in the 1930s and 1940s.

He reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Championships in 1939, 1946 and 1947.[3][4] He played in the Davis Cup.[5] He also competed in doubles with good results at both state and national levels.[6][7] In November 1949 Brodie and doubles partner Bert Tonkin lost to 15-year-olds Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall in an interstate match at Kooyong (6-3, 6-4).[8]

Brodie was ranked in the top 10 Australian players in 1939, 1940, 1945/6, 1946/7 and 1947/8.[9]

Along with Frank Sedgman and Paul McNamee, Brodie also won the Grace Park Lawn Tennis Club championship,[10] where the club recognises Brodie's contributions by awarding the Pennant Player of the Year the Lionel Brodie Trophy.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b Australian Open Results Archive
  2. ^ "Deaths - Brodie, Lionel Bernard". The Sydney Morning Herald. 16 May 1995. p. 49. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Lionel Brodie | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Tom Brown, Mulloy gain in title tennis". The New York Times. Associated Press. 24 January 1947. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  5. ^ "⁨Current Jewish Tennis Players⁩". The Australian Jewish Herald⁩. 20 May 1955. Retrieved 20 August 2021 – via The National Library of Israel.
  6. ^ "Results Archive - Lionel Brodie - Australian Open Tennis Championships 2015 - Official Site by IBM". 3 March 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Pails and Brown win doubles title in state tennis". Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory. 12 November 1946. p. 4. Retrieved 20 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ Royall, Ian (16 January 2019). "Baby-faced Legends". Herald Sun, Sunday Home Magazine. p. 14.
  9. ^ "Australian Top 10 Rankings Men and Women". tennishistory.com.au. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  10. ^ Fjeldstad, Jesper (27 March 2001). "Lord of Grace Park again". Leader - Progress Press. Melbourne. p. 48.
  11. ^ "Grace Park Lawn Tennis Club Inc. Annual Report 2014". studylib.net. Retrieved 20 August 2021.