Paul Hand (born 3 July 1965) is a British sports broadcaster and former professional
tennis
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player.
Biography
Tennis career
Born in Berkshire, Hand played on the professional tour primarily as a doubles specialist, with a best ranking of 171 in the world. As a singles player he was joint winner of the
Scottish Championships in 1992.
Hand regularly featured as a doubles player at the Wimbledon Championships in the 1990s. Most notably he made the quarter-finals of the men's doubles at the
1993 Wimbledon Championships
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as a wildcard pairing with
Chris Wilkinson
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Career
Born and bred in Southampton, Chris Wilkinson has achieved much in the world of tennis. But it could have been very different as his first passion was ...
. They had a win en route over the ninth seeded Jensen brothers,
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and
Murphy
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, then in the quarter-finals were beaten in five sets, by
Rikard Bergh
Rikard Bergh (born 14 June 1966) is a former professional tennis
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and
Byron Talbot
Byron Talbot (born 15 September 1964) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won seven doubles titles and finished as a runner-up six times. H ...
. In addition to his six main draw appearances in men's doubles at Wimbledon he played in the mixed doubles four times, all with
Valda Lake. He also played in mixed doubles qualifying with his younger sister
Kaye Hand.
Post tennis
He now works as a tennis coach and a sports broadcaster for the
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