André Henri Gobert (14 September 1890 – 6 December 1951) was a male tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player from France

France

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He was born and died in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

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Career

Gobert is the double Olympic tennis champion of 1912. At the Stockholm Games

1912 Summer Olympics

The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 5 May and 27 July 1912. Twenty-eight nations and 2,407 competitors, including 48 women, competed in 102 events in 14 sports...

 he won both the men's singles and doubles indoor title.

He was a 2-time winner of the French Open in 1911 and 1920. He also won the International Lawn Tennis Federation's World Covered Court Championship

World Covered Court Championships

The World Covered Court Championships were part of a series of three world championships sanctioned from 1913–1923 by the International Lawn Tennis Federation . The tournament was played indoors on wood floors, and its venue changed from year to year among several countries...

(Indoor) in 1919.

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