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- ↑ "Fomtana Bounced Again In India: Don Fontana of Toronto, Canadian Davis Cup player beaten in Quarter Finals of Central India Championships by Pakistan's Iftakhar Ahmed". Lethbridge Herald. Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.: Newspaper Archives. 6 January 1956. p. 6.
- ↑ All India Tennis Association
- ↑ Reed, Sir Stanley (1943). Indian Year Book. Bombay: Times of India Press. p. 931.
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