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Andres Hammersley

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Full name: Andres R. Hammersley Nunez
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Bio Andrés R. Hammersley Núñez (October 17, 1919 – January 10, 2002)4 was a Chilean tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s. He was a contemporary of Luis Ayala, Ricardo Balbiers, Marcelo Taverne and Carlos Sanhueza. In 1945 he was the "first Chilean male to participate in the United States Open".

Son of the athlete Rodolfo Hammersley and brother of the skier Arturo Hammersley. Parallel to his tennis career, which he developed without his father's permission, he studied contactology in Germany, being the first Chilean specialist in this area. He married three times, one of them with Carla Timmerman. He spoke Spanish, English, French and German.

Everythin has started in 1939 in the amateur era, after that in 1941 he won his first Chilean tennis championship, which he repeated consecutively until 1946. He was South American champion in 1943 and 1946, and in 1953 he won the Maribor Tournament in Yugoslavia and in 1956, the Menton Tournament in France.
In In 1945 he debuted in the United States National Championship as the second seed, current United States Open and in 1946, he was invited to the Wimbledon Championships, where after being defeated by the Australian Dinny Pails, he suffered mental confusion. which kept him off the slopes until 1948. He returned to Wimbledon in 1954, participating in all its versions until 1958.

He was a player for the Chilean Davis Cup team between 1954 and 1957, being nominated eight times, where he came to play with Luis Ayala in the semi-final of the European Zone in the 1955 edition against Sweden, corresponding to the round of 16. Of his 23 matches in the tournament, he won 10 and lost in 13.​ He was also the champion in the Mitre Cup in 1954.

He died in 2002, at the age of 84, from prostate cancer.
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