Paul Willey
Paul Arden Willey was a Canadian tennis player. Willey, the Canadian junior champion in 1949, attended Vancouver's Kitsilano Secondary School. In 1954 he won the Ontario Championships in singles, and was runner-up at the same event in 1956 to Bob Bédard and in 1957 to Don Fontana, in the latter tournament playing with a sore elbow. In 1956, he defeated Nicola Pietrangeli on red clay at Florence, and in 1957 he defeated Mal Anderson on grass at Southampton. He won several tournaments in British Columbia in the late 1950s. He played for the Canada Davis Cup team from 1953 to 1958 and had a singles win against American Barry MacKay in 1956. Between 1959 and 1963 he served as Canada's national coach, before relocating to Arizona with wife Colleen. See also *List of Canada Davis Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Canada Davis Cup team The Canada men's national tennis team represents Canada in Davis Cup tennis competition since 191 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Four Corners region with Utah to the north, Colorado to the northeast, and New Mexico to the east; its other neighboring states are Nevada to the northwest, California to the west and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest. Arizona is the 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union, achieving statehood on February 14, 1912. Historically part of the territory of in New Spain, it became part of independent Mexico in 1821. After being defeated in the Mexican–American War, Mexico ceded much of this territory to the United States in 1848. The southernmost portion of the state was acquired in 1853 through the Gadsden Purchase. Southern Arizona is known for its desert cl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Canada Davis Cup Team
The Canada men's national tennis team represents Canada in Davis Cup tennis competition since 1913. They are overseen by Tennis Canada, the governing body of tennis in Canada. The team won their first Davis Cup in 2022, beating Australia 2-0 in the final. In its first appearance in 1913 it had reached the World Group final, losing to the United States Davis Cup team, United States 0–3. History 1913–2010: Moderate success Canada competed in its first Davis Cup in 1913. The team won its first tie, played in June at the Queen's Club, London over South Africa Davis Cup team, South Africa by a score of 4–1. The team consisted of just two players, Robert Powell (tennis), Robert Powell and Bernard Schwengers. Canada then in July easily defeated Belgium Davis Cup team, Belgium in the semi-finals 4–0. In the playoff final however, played a week later, they lost all three matches to the Americans in straight sets. (The Americans went on to defeat Great Britain in the challenge roun ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Racket Sportspeople From British Columbia
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Canadian Male Tennis Players
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2005 Deaths
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Year Of Birth Missing
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List Of Canada Davis Cup Team Representatives
This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Canada Davis Cup team The Canada men's national tennis team represents Canada in Davis Cup tennis competition since 1913. They are overseen by Tennis Canada, the governing body of tennis in Canada. The team won their first Davis Cup in 2022, beating Australia 2-0 in ... in an official Davis Cup match. Canada has taken part in the competition since 1913. Davis Cup players :''*Active players in bold, statistics as of February 5, 2018'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Canada Davis Cup Lists of Davis Cup tennis players Davis Davis Cup ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Red Deer Advocate
The ''Red Deer Advocate'' is a daily newspaper in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Published by Black Press, the newspaper was first established in 1901 as the ''Red Deer Echo'', changing its name to ''Alberta Advocate'' in 1903 and ''Red Deer Advocate'' in 1906. Originally it was a weekly newspaper issued on Fridays. The ''Advocate'' now publishes daily, from Tuesday to Saturday as the Monday edition was dropped late in 2016, with the slogan "Central Alberta's Daily Newspaper". The newspaper publishes weekly supplements called ''Central Alberta Life'' (for rural communities), and owns eleven weekly newspapers covering outlying Alberta towns: the ''Bashaw Star'' (Bashaw), ''Castor Advance'' ( Castor), ''Lacombe Express'' (Lacombe), ''Pipestone Flyer'' ( Pipestone), ''Ponoka News'' ( Ponoka), ''Rimbey Review'' (Rimbey), ''Stettler Independent'' ( Stettler) and ''Sylvan Lake News'' ( Sylvan Lake). In addition to printing its own weekly and daily products, the ''Advocate'' presses also ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mal Anderson
Malcolm James Anderson (born 3 March 1935) is a former tennis player from Australia who was active from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. He won the singles title at the 1957 U.S. National Championships and achieved his highest amateur ranking of No. 2 in 1957. He became a professional after the 1958 season and won the Wembley World Professional Tennis Championships in the 1959 season. He was runner-up at the 1972 Australian Open championships. Background A right-hander, Anderson started playing tennis when he was eight and became serious about the sport at 16. Anderson is the brother-in-law of fellow Australian tennis star Roy Emerson. Playing career Amateur Anderson's two best seasons were 1957 and 1958 when, as an amateur, he twice achieved a ranking of world No. 2."Former Champ Martina Honoured", ''New Straits Times'', 27 January 2000. In 1957, Anderson won the US Championships as an unseeded player. Earlier that year, he had reached the semifinals of the Australian C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1956 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
In the 1956 Wimbledon Championships men's singles, Lew Hoad defeated Ken Rosewall in the final, 6–2, 4–6, 7–5, 6–4, to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title. It was the first of three years in which Australian players dominated the Wimbledon Men's Singles final. Tony Trabert was the defending champion, but was ineligible to compete after turning professional. The competition lasted from Monday 25 June to Saturday 7 July 1956. Ulf Schmidt, from Sweden, was the only player from outside Australia and the United States to reach the quarterfinal stage. It was the first Wimbledon tournament in which Australian Rod Laver competed in senior competition; 17-year-old Laver, a qualifier, was defeated in the first round by Orlando Sirola. Seeds Lew Hoad (champion) Ken Rosewall ''(final)'' Sven Davidson ''(second round)'' Budge Patty ''(second round)'' Jaroslav Drobný ''(first round)'' Ham Richardson ''(semifinals)'' Kurt Nielsen ''(third round)'' Vic Seixas ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nicola Pietrangeli
Nicola "Nicky" Pietrangeli (; born 11 September 1933) is a former Italian tennis player. He won two singles titles at the French Championships and is considered by many to be Italy's greatest tennis champion. Biography Born 11 September 1933, in Tunis, Tunisia, Pietrangeli made his international debut at the 1952 Italian Open, losing in fours sets to Jacques Peten Jacques Peten (8 December 1912 – 3 January 1995) was a Belgian alpine skier and tennis player. He competed in the men's combined event at the 1936 Winter Olympics. Peten represented Belgium in the Davis Cup, appearing in seven ties between 1 .... He appeared in four men's singles finals at French Open, Roland Garros – winning the title in 1959 and 1960, and finishing runner-up in 1961 and 1964. He also won the Roland Garros men's doubles title in 1959 (together with Orlando Sirola), and the mixed doubles in 1958. At Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon, Pietrangeli was a single semifinalist in 1960 Wimbledon Cha ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |