Tennis Career
De Morpurgo was junior champion in Great Britain in 1911, and student champion in Paris in 1915. He was Italy’s # 1 ranked tennis player in 1927, and in 1929 through 1931. The American Tennis magazine labeled Baron de Morpurgo “the Tilden of his country.”
In 1929, the Baron was named Italian Commissioner of Tennis by Benito Mussolini.
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