Tamio Abe (29 September 1902 – 30 December 1987) was a Japanese tennis player. Born in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

, Abe was the eldest son of Japanese baseball pioneer, preacher and parliamentarian

Abe Isoo was a Japanese Christian socialist, parliamentarian and pacifist. He largely contributed to development of baseball in Japan, and was called "Father of Japanese baseball." He created a baseball club of Waseda University. Early life and educ ...

. Abe, the 1927 All-Japan singles champion, debuted for the

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in 1928. He reached the singles fourth round of the 1929 U.S. National Championships and during the same tour claimed the singles title at the Delaware State Championships. In 1930 he made the third round of both the

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and

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. He featured in the Davis Cup for the final time as a player in 1930 but returned as non playing captain in 1938 . A graduate of

Waseda University , abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the ''Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō'' by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the school was formally renamed Waseda University in 1902. The university has numerou ...

, Abe had a career as an academic in the field of philosophy.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Abe, Tamio 1902 births 1987 deaths Japanese male tennis players Tennis players from Tokyo Waseda University alumni

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