- Demetrios Petrokokkinos
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Olympic medal record Men's tennis Competitor for a Mixed team Silver 1896 Athens Doubles Demetrios Petrokokkinos (Greek: Δημήτριος Πετροκόκκινος, born 1878, date of death unknown) was a Greek tennis player. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Petrokokkinos was defeated in the first round of the singles tournament by fellow Greek Evangelos Rallis. This put him in a six-way tie for eighth (last) place among the thirteen man field.
In the doubles tournament, Petrokokkinos again faced Rallis in the first round. This time, Petrokokkinos and his partner Dionysios Kasdaglis of Egypt defeated Rallis and his partner Konstantinos Paspatis. Petrokokkinos and Kasdaglis faced Edwin Flack of Australia and George S. Robertson of Great Britain and Ireland in the semifinals, again winning the match to advance to the final. There, they met Irishman John Pius Boland and German Friedrich Traun, to whom they lost to place second.
Categories:- 1878 births
- 19th-century Greek people
- 19th-century male tennis players
- Greek male tennis players
- Olympic silver medalists for Greece
- Olympic tennis players of Greece
- Tennis players at the 1896 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in tennis
- Greek Olympic medalist stubs
- European tennis biography stubs
- Greek sportspeople stubs
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