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and his own brother Edmund in the final pool, and beating them all without losing a set. On account of this victory he was saluted as "champion of the world", and he was the acknowledged
Champion of France when, in the following year, he played in the 1928 Bristol Cup competition and appeared at the
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and in 1898, on winning matches on the club's covered court against fellow professionals George Kerr (Fitzwilliam, Dublin) and Tom
Fleming (Queen's, London), he was acclaimed "the world's professional tennis champion". He was still popularly known as such in March 1906, but was said to be "formerly"
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and a match between Burke and the
Frenchman Henri d'Arsonville, then regarded as the world professional champion. The latter encounter attracted heavy betting on its outcome, "thrilled a large audience and ended in a win for the French player". In 1925 Burke, partnered by Lenglen, played in an
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Thomas's three sons, Tommy, Albert and Edmund, were all raised to succeed their father in the game. The eldest, Tommy, was already playing professionally by
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where he worked under contract to the Hotel
Metropole before becoming senior professional at the Carlton Lawn Tennis Club there. He was also active in Paris and at Le Touquet and was engaged to teach tennis to the
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in 1920 but soon after, following the death of his father, he returned to the
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