Tennisist Bray from Russia

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Russian Championship
Singles
1907 - Bray G.V. (Krestovskiy L-T Club)
1908 - Prince Urusov L.V. (Krestovskiy L-T Club)
1909 - Bray G.V. (Krestovskiy L-T Club)
1910 - Count Sumarokov-Elston M.N. (Petrograd Tennis Circle)
1911 - Count Sumarokov-Elston M.N. (Petrograd Tennis Circle)
1912 - Count Sumarokov-Elston M.N. (Petrograd Tennis Circle)
1913 - Count Sumarokov-Elston M.N. (Petrograd Tennis Circle)
1914 - Count Sumarokov-Elston M.N. (Petrograd Tennis Circle)
1915 - no Champinoship

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Doubles
1907 - Ventzeli Rob.A and Ventzeli Rud. A. (Petrograd Tennis Circle)
1908 - Bray G.V. and Bray V.V. (Krestovskiy L-T Club)
1909 - Bray G.V. and Bray V.V. (Krestovskiy L-T Club)
1910 - Bray G.V. and Bray V.V. (Krestovskiy L-T Club)
1911 - Bray G.V. and Bray V.V. (Krestovskiy L-T Club)
1912 - Count Salm L. and Count Sumarokov-Elston M.N. (Petrograd Tennis Circle)
1913 - Dickson K. P. and Preble A.D. (Dulwich)
1914 - Macpherson II A.A. and Macpherson III Robert A. (Krestovskiy L-T Club)
1915 - no Champinoship

[newmark401]

Hi, Mike,

Thanks for putting up the names of those winners from the Russian Championships. I presume you don't have the runners-up or any of the scores from the final matches (I e-mailed you about this a few days ago). Would you mind me asking what your source for the winners' names is?

Do you have the name of any of the winners of the women's singles title at the Russian Championships or at the Saint Petersburg and Moscow tournaments? Or of the mixed doubles from any of those tournaments (from their beginning up to the start of World War One)?

Regards

Mark

[newmark401]

Hi,

I see that there were three Brays - George, Vladimir and Albert. However, I'm not exactly sure what relation they were to each other. Were they brothers, cousins, father and sons, uncle and sons??

Any help would be appreciated.

Mark

[Jane Dearmun]

These are my family - Walter v bray was my gg Grandad and was married into the lessners who used to work for branobel and I have their photos and the pocket watch the bray brothers won for tennis.

[Jane Dearmun]

They are my family - Walter bray was my grandad and his dad and grandad were from Russia - Walter bray married Margit lessner who's father was Arthur lessner and worked for branobel oil company x they used to live in Villa tusculum- in weimar which was designed by thilo schoder - I have Walter v brays tennis gold pocket watch awarded to him for winning the doubles x

[Jane Dearmun]

Arthur lessner and Hildegard lessner, had Margit lessner who married George bray and then had Walter xxx

[seamike]

Jane,  I have sent you De Bray's grandson contact via FB messenger

[Adrian Bray]

George Walter Bray is a distant relative - His great grandfather was my great-great-great grandfather. There was a whole colony of Brays living in Petersburg in the later 19th centruty until 1918.  George played doubles with his second cousin Walter Vassilyevich (my grandfather).  Somewhere there is a photograph of the two of them playing together on the courts on Kristovsky island.  Both were extremely tall and thin.  I remember George's son Laurie - also very tall - playing tennis with my father Peter. Tennis was big with them all, and another cousin was a professional in London.