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Scott Carnahan
Scott Carnahan (born October 24, 1953) is an American former professional tennis player. One of the fastest servers of his era, Carnahan entered in national serving competitions and was once recorded at 137 mph at a Tennis magazine sponsored event in Los Angeles. He played collegiate tennis for UC Irvine, where he was a three-time singles All-American and the 1975 NCAA Division II NCAA Division II (D-II) is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). It offers an alternative to both the larger and better-funded Division I and to the scholarship-free environmen ... doubles champion with Bob Wright. On the professional tour, he featured in all four grand slam tournaments during his career and ranked in the world's top 200 for singles. ATP Challenger finals Doubles: 2 (0–2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carnahan, Scott 1953 births Living people American male tennis players UC Irvine Anteater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Australian Open (December) – Men's Singles
Vitas Gerulaitis defeated John Lloyd in the final, 6–3, 7–6, 5–7, 3–6, 6–2 to win the men's singles tennis title at the December 1977 Australian Open. Roscoe Tanner was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Chris Lewis. Seeds The seeded players are listed below. Vitas Gerulaitis is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. # Vitas Gerulaitis (champion) # Roscoe Tanner ''(first round)'' # Tony Roche ''(first round)'' # Ken Rosewall ''(quarterfinals)'' # Phil Dent ''(second round)'' # John Alexander ''(semifinals)'' # Stan Smith ''(third round)'' # Tim Gullikson ''(third round)'' Qualifying Draw Key * Q = Qualifier * WC = Wild card * LL = Lucky loser * r = Retired Final eight Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 External links Australian Open (December 1977) on ATPWorldTour.com1977 Australian Open (December) – Men's draws and resultsat the International Tennis Federation The Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Strode
Charles Darlington "Buzz" Strode Jr. (born September 5, 1957) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Career Strode was most successful at doubles, often playing beside his brother Morris "Skip" Strode. It was with his brother that he made the men's doubles quarter-finals at the US Open and Australian Open in 1982. His other Grand Slam quarter-final appearance in the men's doubles, at the 1985 Wimbledon Championships, was with South African Eddie Edwards. Strode and his brother won the 1982 Hong Kong and were also runners-up in Bangkok that year. He made one Grand Slam mixed doubles final, which was with Leslie Allen at the 1983 French Open. They lost the final to fellow Americans Barbara Jordan and Eliot Teltscher.''The Modesto Bee''"Leslie Allen's Week That Was" June 8, 1983, p. 24 Strode competed in the singles draw at three Grand Slam tournaments, but lost in the opening round each time, to Gustavo Tiberti at the 1982 French Open, Rod Frawley at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Graham (tennis)
Tony Graham (October 29, 1956 – May 2, 2023) was a former top 100 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 the United States. During his career, he won two doubles titles. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 100 in 1980 and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 88 in 1981. Career finals Singles (1 runner-up) Doubles (2 titles, 1 runner-up) External links * * American male tennis players People from North Hills, Los Angeles Tennis players from Los Angeles 1956 births Living people {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Case
Ross or ROSS may refer to: People * Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan * Ross (name), including a list of people with the surname or given name Ross, as well as the meaning * Earl of Ross, a peerage of Scotland Places * RoSS, the Republic of South Sudan Antarctica * Ross Sea * Ross Ice Shelf * Ross Dependency Australia * Ross, Tasmania Chile * Ross Casino, a former casino in Pichilemu, Chile; now the Agustín Ross Cultural Centre Ireland *"Ross", a common nickname for County Roscommon * Ross, County Mayo, a townland in Killursa civil parish, barony of Clare, County Mayo, bordering Moyne Townland * Ross, County Westmeath, a townland in Noughaval civil parish, barony of Kilkenny West, County Westmeath * Ross, County Wexford * The Diocese of Ross in West Cork. The Roman Catholic diocese merged with Cork in 1958 to become the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross, while the Church of Ireland diocese is now part of the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. This area, centered aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Bailey (tennis)
Joel Bailey (born April 25, 1951) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Bailey was born in Florida but based in Memphis, Tennessee. An All-American varsity tennis player at Samford University, Bailey began competing internationally in the late 1970s. He won a Grand Prix doubles title in Lagos, Nigeria with Bruce Kleege in 1979. In singles, he had his first big match win at Sarasota in 1980 when he saved triple match points to upset Steve Krulevitz, from a set and 2–5 down. He had only entered the tournament as a wild card, which was awarded as he was the son of Mack Bailey, who owned the company that sponsored the tournament. At the Tulsa that year he made the quarter-finals, his best performance in a Grand Prix tournament. He competed in the main draw of the 1981 Wimbledon Championships and had a two set lead over Kevin Curren in their first round encounter, but lost in five. From the 1980s he lived in Japan and appeared in many tournamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoto
Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the city had a population of 1.46 million. The city is the cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. Kyoto is one of the oldest municipalities in Japan, having been chosen in 794 as the new seat of Japan's imperial court by Emperor Kanmu. The original city, named Heian-kyō, was arranged in accordance with traditional Chinese feng shui following the model of the ancient Chinese capital of Chang'an/Luoyang. The emperors of Japan ruled from Kyoto in the following eleven centuries until 1869. It was the scene of several key events of the Muromachi period, Sengoku period, and the Boshin War, such as the Ōnin War, the Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sadri
John Sadri (born September 19, 1956) is a former tennis player from the United States. Sadri, an All-American at North Carolina State, reached the finals of the 1978 men's NCAA singles championship, losing to John McEnroe in four sets.https://www.backingthepack.com/nc-state-non-revenue-sports-news/2014/4/25/5652190/john-sadri-vs-john-mcenroe He reached the final of the 1979 Australian Open The 1979 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia and was held from 24 December 1979 through 2 January 1980. It was the 68th edition of the Austra ..., won two singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 13 in September 1980. Sadri formerly ran a junior tennis academy at Russell Tennis Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Grand Slam finals Singles (1 runner-up) Grand Slam tournament performance timeline Singles Career finals Singles (2 wins, 3 losses) Doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Richardson (tennis)
Keith Richardson (born 1953) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He is a member of both the North Carolina and South Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame. Biography Richardson grew up in Rock Hill, South Carolina and attended Rock Hill High School, where he was the state's 4A High School Tennis Champion in 1971. He got an athletic scholarship to North Carolina's Appalachian State University where he played varsity tennis from 1971 to 1975, while he studied for a BSBA degree. During this time he was a three time Southern Conference Singles Champion (1973, 1974, 1975) and two time Doubles Champion (1974, 1975). In 1976, Richardson turned professional and began touring internationally. By the end of the 1977 he had reached his highest ranking of 74 in the world. He twice featured in the US Open, in 1977 and 1979. In his first appearance in 1977 he lost in the opening round to Phil Dent, but in 1979 he was able to make the third round. He began the 1979 US Open w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tinton Falls, New Jersey
Tinton Falls is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 17,892,DP-1 – Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for Tinton Falls borough, Monmouth County, New Jersey , . Accessed August 1, 2012. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Defending champion Björn Borg successfully defended his title, defeating Jimmy Connors in the final, 3–6, 6–2, 6–1, 5–7, 6–4 to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 1977 Wimbledon Championships. It was the first Wimbledon appearance for future three-time champion John McEnroe, who entered as a qualifier and reached the semifinals before losing to Connors. It was also the final major appearance for four-time Wimbledon champion Rod Laver. Seeds Jimmy Connors ''(final)'' Björn Borg (champion) Guillermo Vilas ''(third round)'' Roscoe Tanner ''(first round)'' Brian Gottfried ''(second round)'' Ilie Năstase ''(quarterfinals)'' Raúl Ramírez ''(second round)'' Vitas Gerulaitis ''(semifinals)'' Dick Stockton ''(fourth round)'' Adriano Panatta ''(second round)'' Stan Smith ''(fourth round)'' Wojciech Fibak ''(fourth round)'' Phil Dent ''(quarterfinals)'' Mark Cox ''(fourth round)'' Bob Lutz ''(third round)'' Harold Solom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
