General Gustav
Turrettini
Male
Switzerland
1883-07-15
Geneva, Switzerland
1933-10-27
Geneva, Switzerland


About

A medical doctor by profession, Gustave Turrettini was the brother of fellow lawn tennis Fernand Turrettini and the first cousin of another player, Maurice Turrettini. Gustave and Fernand were two of the five children born to Théodore Edouard Bénédict Turrettini (1845-1916), a distinguished administrator and national councillor in the Swiss Federal Assembly, and Catherine Marguerite Turrettini (née Favre; 1851-1932).

The lawn tennis players’ ancestors originally came from Lucca in Tuscany and had arrived in Calvinist Geneva in 1578 as religious refugees. The pedigree of the Turrettini family includes bankers as well as theologians Jean-Alphonse Turrettini and François Turrettini.



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Archive statistics 1906 - 1926
1
14
5


Tournament wins 1909 - Swiss National Championships (Open)


Tournaments Swiss National Championships - 1926 Geneva Spring Tournament - 1925 Geneva Covered Courts - 1916 Geneva Covered Courts - 1914 Geneva International Championship - 1912 Geneva International Championship - 1910 Swiss National Championships - 1909 Geneva International Championship - 1908 Geneva Cup - 1908 Swiss National Championships - 1906

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