Henri Cochet, French tennis champion (R), shaking hands with a competitor at the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships, Los Angeles, 1928

Item Overview

Title

Henri Cochet, French tennis champion (R), shaking hands with a competitor at the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships, Los Angeles, 1928

Date Created

October 1928

Date

1928

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Henri Cochet, French tennis champion (R), shaking hands over the net with a competitor at the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships. The grandstands are nearly empty.
Henri Jean Cochet was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Caption

Other photographs of Henri Cochet at this tournament appear with the newspaper caption: As The Camera Catches Henri Cochet, The World's Champion, In Action, On The Tennis Courts: These photos were taken the past week on the courts of the Los Angeles Tennis Club where the world's singles king has been a featured performer and where he will play today in the final events of the second annual Pacific Southwest tourney [Los Angeles Times, October 7, 1928]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships
Cochet, Henri, 1901-1987
Los Angeles Tennis Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.082458

Latitude

-118.330114

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Sports
Tennis--Tournaments--California--Los Angeles
Tennis players--California--Los Angeles
People