Pierre Albarran

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Olympic medal record
Men's Tennis
Bronze	1920 Antwerp	Doubles

Pierre Albarran (born 1894 in West Indies, died 1960 in Paris) was French auction and contract bridge player and theoretist, and tennis player.

As bridge player, he won the European Teams Championship in 1935, and represented the France in 1935 in the first World Championships in New York. Among other conventions, he invented canapé approach and what will later become known as Roman two suiters.

During his tennis career, he played for France twice in Davis Cup, and won the bronze medal in doubles on 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp with Max Décugis.

[edit] Selected bridge bibliography

• Bridge, Nouvelle methode de nomination. Les jeux bicolores. Le Canapé, 1946
• Cent donnes extraordinaires: Bridge, 1953, co-author José Le Dentu
• Comment Gagner Au Bridge, 1959, with Pierre Jaïs
• L'Encyclopédie du bridge moderne, vol 1. 1957 and vol. 2 1968
• Le Bridge pour Tous, 1949, co-author Robert de Nexon, Publisher: A. Fayard, Paris, LC: 49052576
• Le Nouveau Bridge Pour Tous, 1958, co-authors Robert de Nexon and Jose Le Dentu
• Notre Methode de Bridge, 1936, co-author Robert de Nexon
• Nouveau Memento de Bridge en 100 Lecons: Encheres Naturelles, 1976, co-author Jose Le Dentu, Publisher: A. Fayard, Paris, ISBN 2-213-00396-3, LC: 77576798

[edit] References

• L'aristocratie du bridge, Pierre Jais, José Le Dentu, Alan Truscott, Paris, 1973, (editions Ballard)