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170:(3 March 1886 – 16 May 1917) was a British tennis player in the years before World War I. His father was German, and Zimmerman was embarrassed by his German name, so he abbreviated his surname to Mann. He reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon men's singles in 1912 where he lost in straight sets to
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