Raymond Rodel

{{Short description|French tennis player and administrator (1895–1967)}}

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| name = Raymond Rodel

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| fullname = Raymond Jean Rodel

| country_represented = {{FRA}}

| birth_date = {{birth date|1895|05|05|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Bordeaux, France{{cite web |title=BORDEAUX 1 E 364 - Registre des actes de naissance de Bordeaux, section 1, 1895 - 1895 |url=https://archives.bordeaux-metropole.fr/ark:/75241/vtac75cc0a7d27b57af/daoloc/0#id:1144476032 |website=Archives Bordeaux Métropol |language=French}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1967|02|21|1895|05|05|df=yes}}

| death_place = Lausanne, Switzerland

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| FrenchOpenresult = 4R (1934, 1936)

| Wimbledonresult = 3R (1929)

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Raymond Jean Rodel (5 May 1895 – 21 February 1967) was a French tennis player and administrator.{{cite news |title=Tennis Cup For Statesmen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/822920759 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=21 June 1938}}

Rodel, from a family of Bordeaux industrialists, was married to the daughter of Italian composer Cesare Galeotti.{{cite news |title=Livre. Sports à Quiberon : une longue histoire |url=https://www.letelegramme.fr/morbihan/quiberon/livre-sports-a-quiberon-une-longue-histoire-22-04-2014-10135929.php |work=Le Telegramme |date=22 April 2014 |language=fr}}

Active in the 1920s and 1930s, Rodel competed in the singles main draw of 15 French Championships, reaching the fourth round twice. He made the third round of the 1929 Wimbledon Championships, where he was beaten in four sets by Colin Gregory.{{cite news |title=Tilden Gains Another Easy Victory |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/808089077 |work=Evening Sentinel |date=26 June 1929}} In 1943 and 1944 he served as President of the French Tennis Federation.{{cite news |title=Liste des Présidents de la Fédération Française de Tennis - Fédération française de tennis |url=https://www.fft.fr/la-federation/decouvrir/histoire-liste-des-presidents-de-la-fft |work=www.fft.fr |language=fr}}

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