Laurence C. "Cary" Leeds III (April 16, 1957 – January 30, 2003) was an American professional tennis player. Leeds was the son of New York City banker Larry Leeds and Tel Aviv-born Dalia Benary. A varsity tennis player while at

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, Leeds won a national indoor doubles title with Matt Doyle in 1977 and graduated in 1979 with a B.A. Active on the professional tour in the 1980s, Leeds featured most prominently in doubles and made three

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finals. He was a mixed doubles semi-finalist at the 1981 Wimbledon Championships, partnering Sherry Acker. The Cary Leeds Center in the South Bronx, New York is named in his honor, set up by his family as a way to memorialize him after his death in 2003. It was opened in 2015.

Grand Prix career finals

Doubles: 3 (0–3)

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