Giovanni (Mino)
Balbi de Robecco
Male
Italy
1883-11-19
Genoa, Italy
1964-11-24
Genoa, Italy
He grew up in Genoa in a famous noble (Balbi) family. He started his sports career as soccer player at the second team of Genoa FC. Meanwhile in 1893, he entered the Tennis Club Genoa.
After leaving football definitely, he devoted himself to tennis. He obtained 9 Italian national champion titles, 4 in singles (1914, 1921, 1926-27) and 5 in doubles (1914, 1920-22 and 1926). In 1914, he also won the International Tournament of Naples.
He had two appearances in the Davis Cup for Italy and the participation in the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.
He won the famous Monte Carlo Tournament in 1922, overcoming the Frenchman Alain Gerbault in the final in three sets.
1911 - 1947
14
182
103
1927 - Italian National Championships (Open)
1926 - Italian National Championships (Open)
1923 - Engadine Championships (Amateur)
1923 - St. Moritz Suvretta (Amateur)
1922 - Beaulieu (Open)
1922 - Monte Carlo (Grand Prix Circuit)
1921 - Côte d'Azur Championships (Amateur)
1921 - Cannes Championships (Open)
1921 - Italian National Championships (Open)
1920 - Torino second meeting (Amateur)
1919 - Torino second meeting (Amateur)
1914 - Italian National Championships (Open)
1914 - Napoli (Open)
1914 - San Pellegrino (Amateur)
Round 3
Mr. Longo 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-2
6-2
Round 1
Gino Vido 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
7-5
7-5
Round 1
Pierre Geelhand de Merxem 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-1
6-2
Round 1
Josef Caska 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
6-1
Round 3
Augusto Rado 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-3
8-6
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Eugenio Costa
6-2
6-2
Quarterfinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mr. Loewi
6-4
6-4
Semifinals
Valentino Taroni 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
8-6
Round 2
André Lacroix 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-0
6-0
6-3
Round 1
Hermann Wilhelm Artens 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
7-5
Round 3
Josef Caska 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-0
6-4
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mr. Leati
3-6
6-1
6-2
Round 2
Giovanni Palmieri 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
5-7
6-3
6-2
Round 2
Giovanni Palmieri 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Jean Lesueur
w.o.
Round 2
Ferruccio Quintavalle 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-2
5-7
6-2
Round 1
Bronislaw Goldmann 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
5-7
6-2
8-6
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
F. Whitemore
6-4
6-4
Round 3
Wilmer Hines 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mr. Profumo
6-4
6-0
Quarterfinals
Emanuele Sertorio 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Wilhelm (Willy) Brosch 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
1-6
6-2
6-3
Round 3
Jack H. O'Shea 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-2
3-6
6-1
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Edgar Ward
6-3
6-4
Round 2
Alberto (Tito) Del Bono 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
3-6
8-6
Round 2
Alessandro Fe D´Ostiani 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
4-6
7-5
6-0
Round 3
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Quarterfinals
Georges A.M. Mitaranga 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-3
5-7
6-3
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Guido Agazzi
w.o.
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mr. Del Conte
6-0
6-1
6-2
Round 3
Pat Hughes 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
6-2
6-4
Round 3
James De Martino 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-1
7-5
Round 3
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Max W. Whitmore
6-1
6-3
Quarterfinals
Augusto Rado 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mr. Zivi
6-0
6-1
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Arne Velschow Rasmussen
6-3
4-6
6-3
Quarterfinals
Emmanuel Du Plaix 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
Michael Haberl 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
2-6
6-4
6-2
Round 2
Clemente Serventi 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
6-2
4-6
6-0
Round 2
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
1-6
6-4
Semifinals
Pat Hughes 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-3
6-2
6-2
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Max W. Whitmore
6-0
6-0
Quarterfinals
Pat Hughes 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
4-6
6-1
6-2
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mr. Colonna
6-1
6-0
Round 2
Johann Philip Buss 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-1
6-0
Round 1
Mr. Bacchi 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
w.o.
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
A. Bianchi
w.o.
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mr. Abbiati
6-0
6-4
Quarterfinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Piergiovanni Pietra
6-4
6-2
Semifinals
Umberto de Morpurgo 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-1
6-1
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
bye
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
O. Poletti
6-2
6-3
Round 3
Bela Von Kehrling 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-2
6-2
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mr. Immink
6-1
6-0
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
V.L. Bona
6-2
8-6
Round 3
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Adolfo Spasciani
6-3
6-2
Quarterfinals
Laszlo Dorner 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
3-6
6-4
6-2
Round 1
Giuseppe Bacigalupo 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
3-6
6-3
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
bye
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mr. de Bernardi
6-3
6-2
Round 3
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
A. Bologna
6-4
9-7
Quarterfinals
Hira-Lal Soni 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
5-7
6-1
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
bye
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mr. Stucchi
6-3
6-2
Round 3
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Alessandro Fe D´Ostiani
6-3
6-4
Quarterfinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
F. Clerici
7-5
6-0
Semifinals
Oscar De Minerbi 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
bye
Round 2
J. Coutot 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
6-3
Round 1
Piergiovanni Pietra 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
7-5
6-3
Round 1
Mr. Priegl 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
w.o.
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
G. Gulmanelli
6-1
6-4
6-4
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
A. Rosselli
7-5
7-5
4-6
6-2
Quarterfinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Oscar De Minerbi
6-1
4-6
6-1
6-1
Semifinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Alberto (Tito) Del Bono
6-1
6-0
7-5
Final
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Leonardo Bonzi
6-2
6-8
6-0
2-6
6-3
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mr. Milne
7-5
6-3
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Vittorio Bianchi
8-6
6-0
Round 3
Louis Géraud 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-0
6-2
Final
Georg Demasius 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-0
6-1
6-2
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
J. Longmore
w.o.
Round 2
Augusto Serventi 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
4-6
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Louis Heine 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
w.o.
Poule
František (Franz) Soyka 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-3
6-1
7-5
Poule
Karl Robětín 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mr. Gerbi
w.o.
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
V.L. Bona
8-6
6-3
Round 3
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Clemente Serventi
6-1
5-7
6-3
Quarterfinals
Piergiovanni Pietra 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
w.o.
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Archibald Adam Warden
6-3
6-0
Round 3
Douglas Arthur Hodges 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
4-6
6-4
6-4
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
J.A.F. Halkema
6-4
6-2
3-6
6-0
Round 3
Vincent (Vinnie) Richards 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-1
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Cyril J.H. Tolley
6-3
6-3
Round 3
David Rousseaux Morrice 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-1
2-0
ret.
Quarterfinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Otto Salm
6-1
6-3
Semifinals
Hans Moldenhauer 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
7-5
6-4
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Graf Ernst de Wolkenstein
6-3
6-2
Round 2
Arthur Howarth Pryce-Harrison 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
3-6
6-4
ret.
Round 1
Cunliffe Brooke-Leggatt 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
8-10
6-3
1-0
ret.
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mr. Towler
6-2
7-5
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Julian Joseph Lezard
6-2
6-1
Round 3
Francis Riou Leighton-Crawford 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-3
6-4
Quarterfinals
Gordon Lowe 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
N.B. Deane
4-6
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
J. Deshayes
6-0
6-4
Quarterfinals
Gordon Lowe 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
9-7
6-4
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Major H.J. Couchman
6-3
6-1
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
George C. Golding
7-5
11-9
Quarterfinals
Umberto de Morpurgo 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
5-7
8-6
Round 2
Paul Féret 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
3-6
6-0
6-3
0-6
6-3
Final
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Alessandro Truden
6-4
6-2
6-2
Final
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Willy Läsch
6-4
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Sydney Frankland Hepburn 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
w.o.
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
S. Glen Walker
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-0
10-8
Round 3
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
D.L. Morgan
6-3
6-3
Quarterfinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Eliot (Leonard) Crawshay-Williams
6-3
6-3
Semifinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Ernest Lamb
6-4
6-1
Final
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Alain Gerbault
6-1
6-4
6-3
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
W. Woolley
6-4
6-2
Quarterfinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Sir Andrew Denys Stocks
6-1
6-0
Semifinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Rupert Wertheim
6-1
8-6
Final
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
D.L. Morgan
6-2
7-5
1-6
6-4
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Hon. A. Howard
6-3
6-1
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
G.H. Buxton
6-1
6-3
Quarterfinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mario Brian
6-1
6-4
Semifinals
P. Marsden 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
5-7
8-6
4-1
ret.
Round 1
Manuel De Gomar 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
8-6
6-2
Quarterfinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Oliver Duncan
6-2
6-2
Semifinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Alfred C. Hunter
6-3
6-4
Final
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Alain Léon André Resuge
6-3
4-6
6-1
2-6
7-5
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
George Cholmondeley
6-1
6-0
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Prince Dhariyashill Rao Gackwar
6-2
6-0
Quarterfinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Maurice A. Ferrier
2-6
6-3
6-2
Semifinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Alfred C. Hunter
6-3
6-4
Final
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
A. Félix Poulin
6-2
9-11
6-3
6-1
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
A. Warland
6-4
6-0
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Donald Greig
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
John Rendall 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-2
8-6
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Montagu Edward Nigel-Jones
6-2
3-6
6-3
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
O. Verseas
6-4
6-4
Quarterfinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
G.F. de Teissier
6-1
6-0
Semifinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Alain Gerbault
9-7
2-6
8-6
Final
Mikhail Sumarokov-Elston 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-1
6-1
6-0
Final
William Laurentz 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
In
5
sets
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
A. György Dungyersky
6-1
6-1
Round 3
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Robert Harry Hotham
6-1
6-1
Quarterfinals
Gordon Lowe 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-2
6-4
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
bye
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
J.H.W. Fulton
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
C.W. Murray
6-3
7-5
Semifinals
Gordon Lowe 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
4-6
6-2
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
José Miguel Fernández de Liencres Flórez
6-2
6-4
6-1
Round 3
Oswald Graham Noel Turnbull 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
3-6
6-3
6-0
6-8
6-2
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Captain De Tessier
6-2
6-2
Round 3
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Edward Mauger Iliffe
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
Major Josiah George Ritchie 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-1
6-1
Round 1
Robert Kleinschroth 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-0
6-3
Semifinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
G. Porro Lambertenghi
6-1
6-1
Final
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mario Brian
6-2
6-0
6-3
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Edward Roy (Roy) Allen
w.o.
Semifinals
Craig Biddle 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
w.o.
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
A.R. Vachel
w.o.
Round 3
C.W. Murray 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
L.S. Woods
6-0
6-1
Quarterfinals
M. Massone 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
4-6
7-5
6-2
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Philippe Wallet
3-6
6-1
6-1
Quarterfinals
Craig Biddle 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-2
6-2
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Umberto De Martino
6-3
6-4
Quarterfinals
C.M. Moore 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
J. Arnal
6-3
6-4
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Harry Sturtz
6-2
6-3
Quarterfinals
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Major E.V. Turner
6-2
6-2
Semifinals
W. Cumming 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
2-6
6-2
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Mr. Elwell
6-4
7-5
Round 2
A. Félix Poulin 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-1
7-5
Round 1
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
D.V. Leland
6-4
6-3
Quarterfinals
Curt Bergmann 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-3
6-0
Round 1
Gino (Gingi) De Martino 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-3
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
Ludwig von Salm 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
7-5
8-6