Andrés Hammersley

Andrés Hammersley Núñez (17 October 1919[1] — 10 January 2002) was a Chilean tennis player.

Simultaneously to his tennis career, he studied contactology in Germany, being one of the first Chilean specialists in this area.

[3] In 1941, he won his first Tennis Chilean championship, which repeated consecutively until 1946.

[2][4] He was the first Chilean to participate in the international tournament of Forest Hills —current US Open— in 1945, and the following year he was invited to the Wimbledon Championship, where after being defeated by Dinny Pails, he suffered a mental confusion that dropped him out of tracks until 1948.

[6] He was part of the Chilean team of Davis Cup between 1954 and 1957, being nominated in eight opportunities, and he played in the semifinal of the 1955 European zone against Sweden.