was an amateur
tennis player
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cove ...
from Japan who competed in the 1920s and 1930s, including the
1924 Summer Olympics
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.
He was ranked World No. 7 in 1926 by
A. Wallis Myers of ''
The Daily Telegraph
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It was fo ...
''.
Harada was also ranked World No. 10 by Myers and the U.S. No. 3 in 1925.
After becoming Japanese National Doubles Tennis Champion in 1923,
Harada moved to the United States to continue his studies at the
Harvard University
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.
In 1929 he won the All Japan Championship again both in singles and doubles.
He was coached by Harry Cowles.
Personal life
Takeichi Harada was married and his first child was born in 1929.
He was the head manager of a mall in Tokyo.
In 1925 he was awarded the AAF World Trophy by the
Amateur Athletic Foundation for his merits in tennis.
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1899 births
1978 deaths
Olympic tennis players of Japan
Tennis players at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Japanese male tennis players
Sportspeople from Osaka
20th-century Japanese people