Muhammad Ghaus
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Ghaus Mohammad Khan (2 November 1915 – 1982) was an Indian
tennis
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player from
Malihabad
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. He was the first Indian to reach the quarterfinals at
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, achieved in 1939 where he lost to second-seeded and eventual champion
Bobby Riggs
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. With compatriot Iftikar Ahmed he reached the third round in the doubles event in 1947. He was active from 1932 until 1948 and won 35 career titles in singles.
Career
Khan played his first tournament in 1932 at the India International Championships where he lost in the fourth round to the Italian player Emanuele Sertorio. He won his first title in 1937 at the East India Championships held in Calcutta where he defeated Subba L.R. Sawhney. In 1938 he reached the third round at the
French Championships
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at Roland Garros, he then played and won the
Sheffield and Hallamshire Championships
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against the New Zealander
Cam Malfroy
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London Championships
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held at the Queens Club.
In grand slam tournament play his best result came at the 1939 Wimbledon Championhips when he reached the quarter finals stage, the same year he won the
Essex Championships
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against John Olliff, this year he was also a losing finalist at the
Irish Lawn Tennis Championships
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in Dublin, and the
London Hard Court Championships
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played on clay at Hurlingham, both times against Murray Deloford. He won the
All India Championships
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five times from (1939, 1941, 1943-44, 1946) and the Sindh Lawn Tennis Championships three times between (1938–1940). In 1940 he won the Rifah-I-Am AC tournament at
Lucknow
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Baroda
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Western India Championships
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both at Bombay. In 1947 he won the
Middlesex Championships
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at Chiswick Park, London, the same year he also won the Bury and West Suffolk Tournament against the American player Richard Colby at
Bury St Edmunds
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, and the
Hull Open
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at
Kingston upon Hull
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, and was a losing finalist at the
North of England Championships
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in Scarborough against
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. He played and won his final tournament in 1948 at the Ceylon Championships against Frederick John de Saram at the
Hill Club
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,
Nuwara Eliya
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, in what was then
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(now
Sri Lanka
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).
For this efforts in the realm of sports Mohammad Khan received the
Padma Shri
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award from the
Government of India
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