Max Decugis

Olympic medal record
Men's tennis
Competitor for a Mixed team
Silver 1900 Paris Doubles
Competitor for France
Gold 1920 Antwerp Mixed doubles
Bronze 1920 Antwerp Doubles
1906 Intercalated Games
Gold 1906 Athens Singles
Gold 1906 Athens Doubles
Gold 1906 Athens Mixed doubles

Maxime "Max" Omer Decugis or Décugis (24 September 1882 – 6 September 1978) was a male tennis player from France who holds the French Championships/French Open record of winning the tournament eight times (a French-only tournament before 1925). He also won three Olympic medals at the 1900 Summer Olympics (Paris) and the 1920 Summer Olympics (Antwerp), his only gold medal coming in the mixed doubles partnering French legend Suzanne Lenglen.

He won the French Championships in 1903, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1912, 1913, and 1914 (also 14 times in doubles and 7 times in mixed). The interruption of World War I denied Décugis the opportunity to defend his 1914 title. Décugis was also a 4-time runner-up, having lost the final in 1902, 1906, 1920, and 1923.

In major tournaments, Decugis reached the semi-finals of both the 1911 and 1912 Wimbledon Championships and the 1913 and 1914 World Hard Court Championships.

His father was a merchant at Les Halles, the company's name was Omer Décugis et fils, however the accent mark on the é is missing from Max Decugis' birth certificate, and appears inconsistently in later sources. The origin of the family name Décugis, spelled with accented é in an 1842 source, is "from Cuges-les-Pins."

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