Otto Blom

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Otto Blom
Full nameOtto Pierre Nicolas Blom
Country (sports)Netherlands
Born(1887-03-19)19 March 1887
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died22 July 1972(1972-07-22) (aged 85)
Zeist, Netherlands
PlaysRight-handed
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Wimbledon4R (1910)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon2R (1910)

Otto Blom (19 March 1887 – 22 July 1972) was a Dutch tennis player. He competed for the Netherlands in the tennis event at the 1912 Summer Olympics where he took part in the men's singles competition.[1] He lost in the first round to the Swede Carl Setterwall in three straight sets.[2]

He won the singles title at the Dutch Tennis Championships in 1909, 1910 and 1911. At the same tournament he won the doubles title in 1909 and 1912 and the mixed doubles title in 1906 and 1911.[3]

Blom participated in the Wimbledon Championships in 1909 and 1910. In 1909 he lost in the first round of the singles event to George Coulson and also lost in the first round of the doubles event. In 1910 he reached the fourth round in the singles event in which he lost to Arthur Lowe. In the doubles event he partnered Sirdar Nihal Sing and reached the second round.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Otto Blom". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Otto Blom Olympic results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
  3. ^ "Otto Blom". Tennismuseum.nl.
  4. ^ "Wimbledon players archive – Otto Blom". AELTC.

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