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Jeff Austin (tennis)
William Jeffrey Austin (born July 5, 1951) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Tennis career Austin, an All-American on four occasions, played tennis for the UCLA Bruins and was a member of their 1970 and 1971 NCAA Championship winning teams. He made the third round at the 1973 Wimbledon Championships, where he lost to Szabolcs Baranyi, despite winning the first two sets. In 1973, he won both the singles and doubles titles at the Aptos Open. In 1974, Austin, along with his sister Pam, was a member of the World Team Tennis champion Denver Racquets. Personal life Austin's sister is two-time US Open champion Tracy Austin and he is also the brother of Doug, John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Secon ... and Pam Austin, all tennis players. He ...
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Rolling Hills, California
Rolling Hills is a city on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Rolling Hills is a gated community with private roads with three entry gates. Homes are single-story 19th century California ranch or Spanish haciendas exemplified by architect Wallace Neff. Incorporated in 1957, Rolling Hills maintains a rural area, rural and equestrianism, equestrian character, with no traffic lights, multi-acre lots with ample space between homes, and wide equestrian paths along streets and property lines. Rolling Hills has the third highest median house value in the United States. Homes are required to have white exterior paint. Homeowners are also required to maintain horse property on their lots, or at minimum keep land where stalls could be built. The community was developed by A. E. Hanson, who also developed Hidden Hills, California, Hidden Hills. Residents work, shop, attend school, and obtain other services in the other towns on the Palos Verdes ...
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Tracy Austin
Tracy Ann Austin Holt (born December 12, 1962) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. She won three Grand Slam titles: the women's singles titles at the 1979 and 1981 US Opens, and the mixed doubles title at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships. Additionally, she won the WTA Tour Championships in 1980 and the year-ending Toyota Championships in 1981, both in singles. Austin remains the youngest US Open female singles champion (age 16) and the youngest inductee into the International Tennis Hall of Fame at age 29. She won thirty singles titles during her career, on all playing surfaces: clay (both red and green), indoor carpet, grass, and hard courts. A series of injuries and a serious automobile accident in 1989 cut short her career. Playing style Austin possessed a solid baseline game, with a strong flat-hit forehand and reliable two-handed backhand. Her favorite shot was the backhand down the line and she considered her backhand to be more powerful and ...
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Barry Phillips-Moore
Barry Phillips-Moore (born 9 June 1938) is an Australian former tennis player of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. In singles, Phillips-Moore twice reached the semifinals of the Australian Championships, in 1961 and 1968. In doubles, he was a quarterfinalist at Australian Championships / Australian Open eight times and the French Open once, in 1972. Phillips-Moore won the 1968 ATP Auckland Open defeating Onny Parun in a five-set final. Phillips-Moore won the 1971 ATP Stuttgart Open defeating István Gulyás István Gulyás ( hu, Gulyás István; 14 October 1931 – 31 July 2000) was the second Hungarian male tennis player to become a Grand Slam finalist. He was defeated in the 1966 French Open Men's final by Tony Roche Anthony Dalton Roche ... in the final. Career singles titles Open era finals (2) Doubles champion (1) Singles finalist (1) External links * * 1938 births Australian male tennis players Living people Tennis players from Adelaide S ...
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Marcelo Lara
Marcelo Lara (born October 5, 1947 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a former professional tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ... player from Mexico. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won two doubles titles. Career finals Doubles: 9 (2 titles, 7 runner-ups) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lara, Marcelo Mexican male tennis players Tennis players from Mexico City Living people 1947 births Tennis players at the 1967 Pan American Games Pan American Games medalists in tennis Pan American Games silver medalists for Mexico 20th-century Mexican people ...
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Charles Owens (tennis)
Charles "Charlie" Owens (born July 31, 1950) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Career Owens won the Orange Bowl in 1966 for the 16 and under age division. He competed at the 1970 Summer Universiade in Turin, where he won bronze medals in both the men's doubles (with Fred McNair) and mixed doubles (with Mona Schallau). In 1972 he was the NCAA Division II champion for Samford University. He made the third round of the singles event at the US Open in 1973 and 1974 as well as the third round of Wimbledon in 1975. In doubles, he and partner Mike Estep beat third seeds Arthur Ashe and Roscoe Tanner Leonard Roscoe Tanner (born October 15, 1951) is a retired American tennis player, who turned professional in 1972 and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 on July 30, 1979. Tanner was famous for his big left-handed serve, which ... en route to the third round at the 1974 US Open. Grand Prix career finals Singles: 1 (0–1) Doubles: 2 ...
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Arkansas International Tennis Tournament
The Arkansas International Tennis Tournament was a men's tennis tournament played at Burns Park in North Little Rock, Arkansas in the United States from 1974 to 1979. The event was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit from 1977 through 1979 and was played on indoor carpet court A carpet court is a type of tennis court. The International Tennis Federation describes the surface as a "textile or polymeric material supplied in rolls or sheets of finished product." It is one of the fastest court types, second only to grass co ...s. From 1977 onward the tournament was also known under its sponsored name Fairfield Bay Classic. Past finals Singles Doubles Notes References External links Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) results archiveITF Vault {{Arkansas International tournaments Grand Prix tennis circuit Defunct tennis tournaments in the United States Tennis in Arkansas 1974 establishments in Arkansas 1979 disestablishments in Arkansas Recurring sporting event ...
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Raymond Moore (tennis)
Raymond J. "Ray" Moore (born 24 August 1946) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. During his career he won eight doubles titles, finishing runner-up an additional 12 times in doubles. Moore participated in 12 Davis Cup ties for South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ... from 1967 to 1977, including the 1974 South African victory, posting a 12–10 record in singles and posting an 0–1 mark in doubles. In 1981, Moore teamed with Charlie Pasarell to begin the tournament that eventually became the Indian Wells Masters at the Indian Wells Gardens. They started at La Quinta Resort and Club, moved to Grand Champions Hotel, and then in 2000 opened the new Indian Wells Gardens, which holds the ATP Masters BNP Paribus Open. Moore and Pasarell so ...
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Fred McNair
Frederick V. McNair IV (born July 22, 1950) is an American former professional tennis player who reached the world No. 1 doubles ranking in 1976. That year, he teamed up with Sherwood Stewart to capture the men's doubles titles at French Open, the German Open and the Masters. McNair was also a mixed doubles runner-up at the French Open in 1981, partnering Betty Stöve. In 1978, he was a member of the U.S. team that won the Davis Cup. In nine years on the professional tour, McNair won 16 doubles titles. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 67. History Before turning professional, McNair played tennis for the University of North Carolina, where he was a four-time All-American and an NCAA doubles finalist in 1973. McNair comes from a tennis playing family. His grandfather, Frederick V. McNair Jr., and father, Fred III, both played in the U.S. Championships (now known as the US Open). Fred III and Fred IV formed a father-son doubles team which won six U.S. national fa ...
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Onny Parun
Onny Parun (born 15 April 1947) is a former tennis player of Croatian descent from New Zealand, who was among the world's top 20 for five years and who reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon in 1971 and 1972. He made the final of the Australian Open in 1973, losing to John Newcombe in four sets, and was a US Open quarterfinalist in 1973 and also a quarterfinalist at the French Open in 1975. He eventually went on to coach the Bhatti brothers. Parun and Australian Dick Crealy won the French Open doubles title in 1974. He also made the Masters in 1974, qualifying by finishing in the top eight on the grand prix table. Parun played Davis Cup from 1966 to 1982 and won a string of national titles, including the Benson and Hedges Open three times in four years. Parun became the second player from New Zealand to reach a Grand Slam Singles final, 62 years after Anthony Wilding had reached the 1913 Wimbledon final, and Parun became the second player from New Zealand to win a Grand ...
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New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital media, digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as ''The Daily (podcast), The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones (publisher), George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times, 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked List of newspapers by circulation, 18th in the world by circulation and List of newspapers in the United States, 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is Public company, publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 189 ...
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