{{Short description|Tennis player and footballer (1901–?)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox tennis biography |name = Hector Fisher |image = |caption = |fullname = Hector Cosmo Fisher |country = {{SUI}} |residence = |birth_date = 4 May 1901<ref name="birth">''India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947''</ref> |birth_place = Myaungmya, Burma |death_date = |death_place = |height = |college = |turnedpro = |retired = |plays = |careerprizemoney = |tennishofyear = |tennishofid = |website = |singlesrecord = |singlestitles = |highestsinglesranking = |currentsinglesranking = |AustralianOpenresult = |FrenchOpenresult = 3R (1933, 1936) |Wimbledonresult = QF (1925) |USOpenresult = |Othertournaments = |WCCCresult = |MastersCupresult = |Olympicsresult = |doublesrecord = |doublestitles = |highestdoublesranking = |currentdoublesranking = |AustralianOpenDoublesresult = |FrenchOpenDoublesresult = |WimbledonDoublesresult = QF (1928)<ref name="WimbledonResults">[http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/draws/archive/players/52785e8c-c725-4a63-ad9e-5d963a4b439f/index.html Wimbledon Results Archive]</ref> |USOpenDoublesresult = |OthertournamentsDoubles = |MastersCupDoublesresult = |OlympicsDoublesresult = |Mixed = yes |mixedrecord = |mixedtitles = |AustralianOpenMixedresult = |FrenchOpenMixedresult = |WimbledonMixedresult = 3R (1933, 1938)<ref name="WimbledonResults"/> |USOpenMixedresult = |Team = |DavisCupresult = }}
'''Hector Cosmo Fisher''' (born 4 May 1901) was an English-Swiss-Thai tennis player and footballer.
==Personal life== Fisher was born in Myaungmya, Burma in 1901 and baptised in Bassein, Bengal, British India in August 1902. He was the son of Henry Cosmo-Fisher (1874–1918) and Annie Fisher.<ref name="birth"/> His father was an Anglo-Indian born in Bangalore. He had a younger brother, Colin Cosmo-Fisher (1903–1964).<ref>''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995''</ref> He was described as a cosmopolitan "Burmese-Siamese-English-Swiss" athlete.<ref>{{cite news | title="Im Umgang mit den Fans ist der FCB Vordbildhaft" | url=http://www.20min.ch/schweiz/basel/story/27563646 | accessdate=16 November 2020 | work= 20 Minuten | date=24 September 2015}}</ref><ref name="joggeli">{{cite news | last1=Zeitung |first1= Basler | title=7 Gründe für dieses neuste FCB-Buch | url=http://joggeli.ch/presseschau?id=33558-7_Gruende_fuer_dieses_neuste_FCB-Buch | accessdate=16 November 2020 |work=Joggeli | date=18 November 2015 | language=de}}</ref>
Fisher attended Oxford University,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Oxford University Calendar|date=1923|page=527|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uyhRAAAAYAAJ&q=Hector+Cosmo-Fisher|publisher=University of Oxford|language=en}}</ref> and played tennis there before he moved to Switzerland.<ref>{{cite journal|title=News|journal=American Lawn Tennis|date=1931|volume=25|page=19|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GsgnAAAAMAAJ|publisher=American Lawn Tennis Publishing Company|language=en|quote=Hector C. Fisher, the latter an Oxford Blue and now a Swiss Davis Cup Player}}</ref>
==Tennis== Fisher was above all an excellent tennis player. He represented Switzerland during his tennis career and played in the Davis Cup in the years between 1931 and 1939. Fisher won the Swiss Open in Gstaad four times in 1923, 1928, 1929 and 1931. In 1925 he reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon. He won the international tennis tournament in Wiesbaden in 1929 and an international tournament in Basel in 1930.
==Football== Fisher was also a footballer and played for Montreux-Sports at least during the 1927–28 season.
He also played for FC Basel 1893 in at least one league match in 1930.<ref name="joggeli"/> Fisher joined Basel's first team during their 1930–31 season under Austrian head coach Gustav Putzendopler. He played his first test game for them on 25 October 1930 at home in the Landhof as Basel won 5–1 against La Chaux-de-Fonds.<ref name="fcb-achiv-test-1930/31-fcb-lcdf">{{cite web | last = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | year = | url = https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/spiele?command=detail&id=28427 | title = FC Basel - FC La Chaux-de-Fonds 5:1 (4:0) | format = | publisher = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | accessdate = 16 November 2020}}</ref> After playing in another test game against Biel-Bienne, Fisher played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 30 November 1930 as Basel played a 2–2 draw with local team Old Boys.<ref name="fcb-achiv-ob-fcb-1930/31">{{cite web | last = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | authorlink = | year = | url = https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/spiele?command=detail&id=28438 | title = BSC Old Boys - FC Basel 2:2 (1:1) | format = | publisher = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | accessdate = 16 November 2020}}</ref> Fisher was only the second English person to play league football for the club, in fact to date <!-- 2. July 2022 --> he remains one of only three English players ever to play for Basel, the others being Archibald E. Gough between 1900 and 1902 and L. B. Trenchard Chaffey in 1901.
==References== {{reflist}}
==Sources== * Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. {{ISBN|978-3-7245-2189-1}} * Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. {{ISBN|978-3-7245-2305-5}}
==External links== * {{ITF}} * {{ATP}} * {{Davis Cup player}} * [https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/spieler?command=detail&id=9022 Hector Cosmo Fisher on "Basler Fussballarchiv" Website]
==Note== ''(NB: The editors of these books and the authors in "Basler Fussballarchiv" have not been able to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel.)''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fisher, Hector}} Category:Swiss male tennis players Category:1901 births Category:Year of death missing Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford Category:FC Basel players Category:Men's association football players not categorized by position Category:Swiss men's footballers Category:20th-century Swiss sportsmen