[2] In a tennis career lasting 18 seasons from 1909 to 1934, he reached 21 finals and won 14 singles titles.

Athar-Ali Fyzee took part in the first 1926 World Table Tennis Championships in London.

Here he won the bronze medal with the Indian men's team which included his brother Hassan Ali Fyzee.

[5] In 1909 he played his first event, and won his title at the Wilderness Tournament at Southfields, Wandsworth, London on asphalt courts against Britain's Sydney Watts.

[6] His other career singles highlights 1921 he won the Herga LTC Tournament at Harrow tournament on grass 3 times (1922-23, 1929), the North London Hard Courts Championships in 1921 on clay at Highbury, London against fellow countryman Cotah Ramaswami, and again in 1926.