Hugo Hardy


Hugo James Hardy was a German tennis player and jurist. He competed in the men's singles and doubles events at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, where he was the only non-American competitor.
A lawyer, Hardy was on the board of an early version of the Deutschen Reichsausschuß für Olympische Spiele, a predecessor to the German Olympic Committee that oversaw sports in the Weimar Republic.
Hardy was born in Hamburg, the son of banker James Nathan Hardy and Helena Ida Noemie Cahn.