Francois Blanchy

François Blanchy is the son of Charles Blanchy (1851-1925), cavalry officer and head of the “Blanchy frères” trading house in Bordeaux, and his wife Henriette de Georges de Bargeton-Verclause. Married in 1914 to Marguerite Lagrave (died in 1917), he remarried in February 1919 with Marie Journu, granddaughter of Jean-Paul-Auguste Journu and aunt of the tennis player Roland Journu.

Finalist of the French Championship against Maurice Germot in 1910, he won the tournament in 1923 (over the eight-time champion Max Decugis) in singles and doubles with Jean Samazeuilh.

He participated in the 1912 Olympic Games (loss in the 2nd round in singles) and reached the semi-final of the doubles at those of 1920 in Antwerp with Jacques Brugnon. He also participated in the Davis Cup in 1923, playing five matches and winning three singles against the Swiss Charles Aeschlimann and Charles Martin, and the Spaniard Eduardo Flaquer.

Blanchy later became a sports official,the president of the Guyenne Tennis League, then vice-president of the Villa Primrose club and of the French Lawn Tennis Federation.