Charles "Bud" Cox (born April 11, 1960) is a former professional
tennis player from the United States.
Career
Cox played collegiate tennis while at
Auburn University
Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a public land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama. With more than 24,600 undergraduate students and a total enrollment of more than 30,000 with 1,330 faculty members, Auburn is the second largest uni ...
.
He competed in the singles draw of a
Grand Slam three times, but was unable to progress past the first round.
[ATP Tour Profile]
/ref> In doubles he fared better, making the third round of the 1985 Wimbledon Championships
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and 1987 US Open.[ He was a mixed doubles quarter-finalist at the ]1984 French Open
The 1984 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament was held from 28 May until 10 June. It was the 88th staging of the French Open, and the first Grand ...
, with Wendy Prausa.
On the Grand Prix
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tour he had his best performance in 1987 when he won the doubles title at Saint-Vincent (partnering Michael Fancutt).[ It was his third Grand Prix final, having been runner-up at the same event the previous year and at ]Columbus
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* Columbus, Ohio, capital of the U.S. state of Ohio
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in 1984.[ His best showing in a singles draw came at the 1987 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon, where he defeated world number 19 ]Thierry Tulasne
Thierry Tulasne (born 12 July 1963) is a former tennis player from France, who won five singles titles during his professional career. He reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 10 in August 1986. Since his retirement, he has ...
en route to the quarter-finals.[
In 1986, Cox was participating in a tennis tour in Nigeria when, following a Bible study with fellow tennis pros ]Jim Gurfein
Jim Gurfein (born January 4, 1961) is a former professional tennis player from the U.S. Gurfein reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 96 in September 1983.
Early years
Gurfein was born in New York City, and he is Jewish. Gurfein gr ...
and Morris Strode
Morris Chesney "Skip" Strode (June 5, 1960 - April 17, 2021) was an American 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 ( d ...
, Gurfein jumped through a hotel window while shouting "Jesus!" According to officials, Gurfein, Cox and Strode also said that they had seen God and had torn up their passports, cash and other possessions and thrown them out of a seventh-floor window.Bobby Banck
Bobby Banck (born May 16, 1964) is an American tennis coach and former professional player.
Banck, who grew up in Buffalo, New York, was a national 14-and-under hard court champion. Another Buffalo product Jimmy Arias was in his age group and the ...
said that the three men had twice broken into his hotel room in the middle of the night to urge him to "give up tennis and find the Lord." Banck had to call hotel security to remove the players from his room.
Grand Prix career finals
Doubles: 3 (1–2)
Challenger titles
Doubles: (3)
References
External links
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1960 births
Living people
American male tennis players
Auburn Tigers men's tennis players
Tennis people from Georgia (U.S. state)