Jim Pugh (born February 5, 1964) is a former professional
tennis
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player from the United States. He grew up in
Palos Verdes
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, California and at age 10 began taking tennis lessons from
John Hillebrand. He played tennis at UCLA. He became a doubles specialist on the ATP Tour and won three
Grand Slam
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men's doubles titles (two
Australian Open, one
Wimbledon
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) and five Grand Slam mixed doubles titles (three Australian Open, one Wimbledon, one
US Open). Pugh reached the
world No. 1 doubles ranking in 1989.
Career
Pugh was a member of the U.S. team that won the
Davis Cup in 1990. Partnering with
Rick Leach
Rick Leach (born December 28, 1964) is a former professional tennis player and a coach from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won five Grand Slam doubles titles (three at the Australian Open, one at Wimbledon, and one at the US Ope ...
, he won the doubles rubbers in all four of the rounds which the U.S. played in that year and clinched the team's victory in the final with a win over
Pat Cash
Patrick Hart Cash (born 27 May 1965) is an Australian former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 4 in May 1988 and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 6 in August 1988. Upon winning ...
and
John Fitzgerald of Australia. Pugh has a 6–0 career record in Davis Cup play.
Pugh won 27 doubles titles (22 men's doubles and 5 mixed doubles). He also won one top-level singles title at
Newport, Rhode Island
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in 1989, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 37 in 1987. Pugh won his last career doubles title at Los Angeles in 1992.
Pugh was inducted into the
Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Hall of Fame in 2008.
ITA Men's Hall of Fame
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ATP career finals
Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)
Doubles: 37 (22 titles, 15 runner-ups)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 2 (0–2)
Doubles: 6 (4–2)
Performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
Mixed doubles
References
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American male tennis players
Australian Open (tennis) champions
Sportspeople from Burbank, California
Sportspeople from Manhattan Beach, California
Tennis people from California
UCLA Bruins men's tennis players
US Open (tennis) champions
Wimbledon champions
1964 births
Living people
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles
ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players