Lancelot Lumsden (30 October 1939 – 18 June 2011) was a Jamaican former professional

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player.

Biography

Born in

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, Lumsden played collegiate tennis in the United States at

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in the early 1960s. He went on to compete on the international circuit and featured in the main draws of all four grand slam tournaments, which included a match up against number one seed

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at the

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. Lumsden was a

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representative for the Caribbean/West Indies and appeared in a total of seven ties. Four of those came against the United States and he twice faced

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in singles. His most famous win came against Ashe in doubles, when the Caribbean/West Indies hosted the Americans in Kingston in 1966. He and Richard Russell teamed up to defeat Ashe and

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in five sets. This was one of only two Davis Cup doubles rubbers which Ashe ever played and his only loss. For much of his life post tennis he lived in the Austrian capital

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, where he married Austrian journalist Chris Lohner. At the time of his death in 2011 he was living back in Jamaica.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lumsden, Lance 1939 births 2011 deaths Jamaican male tennis players Southern Illinois Salukis athletes People from Portland Parish Jamaican expatriates in the United States Tennis players at the 1967 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for Jamaica College men's tennis players in the United States