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General First nameNg
LastnameSze-Kwong
GenderMale
CountryChina
Date of birth0000-00-00
Place of birth, -


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From: https://www.tennishk.org/en/news-detail/hk-trio-nominated-to-represent-china-at-paris-1924/

A four-man team of overseas Chinese nationals was nominated by the Far Eastern Games Committee to represent China at the Paris 1924 Olympic Tennis Event. Among them were Hong Kong natives Wei Wing Lock, Ng Sze Kwong, and Ng Sze Cheung. In the opening round of the men’s singles, Wei Wing Lock was slated to face Sweden’s Henning Muller, Ng Sze Cheung drew Holland’s Christiaan Van Lennep, while Ng Sze Kwong was set to play Augustos Zerlendis of Greece. The trio was on the cusp of being China’s first Olympians a century ago, and they were tennis players from Hong Kong.

Wei Wing Lock, who attended secondary school at Saint. Stephen’s out in Stanley and received his tertiary education starting at Hong Kong University before moving on to MIT and Cambridge University, had already represented China in the Far Eastern Games (predecessor to Asian Games) in Manila in 1913, Shanghai in 1915 and 1921, and Osaka in 1923.

While at King’s College, he was a member of the Cambridge men’s tennis team, and it was during this time in 1920 that he became the first Chinese player to compete at Wimbledon in both men’s singles (reached 2nd round) and men’s doubles. In 1924, he was appointed by the Far Eastern Games Committee as captain in which he had full discretion to roster selection in what was China’s historic debut in both the Olympic Games and the Davis Cup that year.

As the playing-captain, he picked overseas Chinese nationals Khoo Hooi-Hye from Penang, and the Ng brothers from Hong Kong, Ng Sze Kwong and his half-brother Ng Sze Cheung, for the Paris Games in 1924 and, presumably, the same roster for the impending, maiden Davis Cup tie against Australia in Brooklyn, New York, ten days after the Olympics as well. They were supposed to be the first athletes from China to compete at the Olympics.

Ng Sze Kwong was the most well-known tennis player in Hong Kong at the time since he was the first local Chinese to break the expat stranglehold on the Hong Kong National Grass Court Championships when he captured the men’s singles title six straight times from 1918-1923. He also won the first three editions of the men’s doubles with Wong Po Keung from 1917-19, and then partnered Wei Wing Lock to win it again back-to-back from 1922-23. He was also Chairman of the Chinese Recreation Club from 1921-1930.

In 1928, the China National Amateur Athletic Federation appointed Ng as Captain and Wei Wing Lock as Manager of the Chinese team that was scheduled to face USA in that year’s Davis Cup. Ng was also appointed to the Selection Committee responsible for picking the roster for China’s 1935 Davis Cup tie against USA in Mexico City.

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Archive statistics Career1920 - 1924
Tournament wins6
Matches4
Match wins3


Tournament wins 1923 - Hong Kong National Grass Courts (Open)
1922 - Hong Kong National Grass Courts (Open)
1921 - Hong Kong National Grass Courts (Open)
1920 - Hong Kong National Grass Courts (Open)
1919 - Hong Kong National Grass Courts (Open)
1918 - Hong Kong National Grass Courts (Open)


Tournaments Olympics, Olympic Games - 1924 Hong Kong National Grass Courts - 1922 Hong Kong National Grass Courts - 1921 Hong Kong National Grass Courts - 1920