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

Well-known Australian sports men at Unarmed Combat Training School c.1942, including Lionel Brodie (far right).
Well-known Australian sports men at Unarmed Combat Training School c.1942, including Lionel Brodie (far right).
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]

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. 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)




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