Borotra

/ bɔrɔtra /

noun

1. BorotraJean (Robert)18981994MFrenchSPORT AND GAMES: tennis playerPOLITICS: statesman Jean ( Robert ) (ʒɑ̃). 1898–1994, French tennis player: secretary general of physical education under the Vichy government (1940)

Example Sentences

Roland Garros was built in a hurry in 1928 because of four men: Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon and René Lacoste, who was not yet a brand in those distant days.

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It is set to be demolished along with the entirety of the Borotra Tribune, the western grandstand of the rectangular Chatrier Court.

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But the French have kept chasing “La Coupe Davis,” which has been a shiny object of desire in their country since the 1920s when the Four Musketeers — Rene Lacoste, Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon — pried it away from Bill Tilden and the United States.

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The “new Roland Garros” will be very new indeed, with hardly anything left from the original, which was built in a hurry in 1928 to provide a suitably grand venue to defend the Davis Cup that France’s four musketeers — Henri Cochet, René Lacoste, Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon — had finally managed to win.

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The last time the French had three men advance this far at the United States championships was when René Lacoste, Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon all reached the final eight in 1927, with Lacoste winning the title.

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