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'''Jamsetji Merwanji''' (also spelled '''Jamsetjee'''; born 1871/2{{#tag:ref|He was aged 39 in February 1911.<ref name="straitstimes19110224"/>|group="n"}}) was an Indian professional [[Rackets (sport)|racquets]] player, who was [[Rackets World Championships|world champion]] of the sport from 1903 to 1911. <br />
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==Profile==<br />
He was a [[Parsi]] who worked as a "marker" (club professional) at the [[Bombay Gymkhana]]. In 1903 in England, he played Gilbert Browne<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Racquets |volume=22 |pages=780–783 |first=Ronald |last=McNeill |authorlink=Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun}}</ref> at [[Queen's Club]] and [[Prince's Club]] for the vacant world title, winning by five games to one.<ref name="Danzig1930">{{cite book|last=Danzig|first=Allison|title=The Racquet Game|year=1930|publisher=Macmillan|pages=94–5, 244}}</ref> The world title was contested by challenge, and the distance between India and Britain or America meant he never had to defend his title until 1911.<ref name="straitstimes19110224"/> His closest rival in India was his brother Padanji, who was a marker in [[Pune]].<ref name="straitstimes19110224">{{cite news|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19110224-1.2.58.aspx|title=THE RACQUETS CHAMPIONSHIP: Jamsetji of Bombay sails for England|date=24 February 1911|work=The Straits Times|page=7|accessdate=13 July 2015|location=Singapore}}</ref> He was finally challenged in late 1909, for 5,000 [[Indian rupee|rupee]]s, by Charles Williams, who had beaten amateur E. M. Baerlein to become English champion.<ref name="straitstimes19091227">{{cite news|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19091227-1.2.81.9.aspx|title=Sporting Intelligence: Notes in General|date=27 December 1909|work=The Straits Times|page=8|accessdate=13 July 2015}}</ref> The contest did not take place until 1911, when several Indian sports teams journeyed to Britain around the [[coronation of the British monarch|coronation of George V]] and [[1911 Imperial Conference]].<ref name="Kidambi2013"/> Jumanji easily beat Baerlein in a warm-up match,<ref name="singfreepressb19110602.2.19">{{cite news|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/singfreepressb19110602.2.19.aspx|title=The Sporting World; Racquets.|date=2 June 1911|work=The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser|page=5|accessdate=13 July 2015}}</ref> but Williams, 17 years Jumanji's junior, beat him at Queen's Club by five games to nil.<ref name="Kidambi2013">{{cite journal|last=Kidambi|first=Prashant|year=2013|title=Sport and the Imperial Bond: The 1911 'All-India' Cricket Tour of Great Britain|journal=The Hague Journal of Diplomacy|volume=8|issue=3–4|pages=261–285: 262|issn=1871-1901|doi=10.1163/1871191X-12341256}}</ref><ref name="Majumdar2005">{{cite book|last=Majumdar|first=Boria|title=Indian Cricket Through the Ages: A Reader|year=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195667868|page=62}}</ref><ref name="straitstimes19110224"/><br />
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