Phil Davies is a former 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 ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player from Australia.
Biography
As a junior, Davies won the boys' doubles title at the
1977 Australian Open, partnering with
Peter Smylie.
Davies made all of his Grand Prix appearances in local Australian tournaments. Most notable of those was the
1979 Australian Hard Court Championships, in which he made the second round of the singles and was a losing doubles finalist with
Brad Guan
Brad Guan (born 10 July 1958) is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
Grand Slam career
Guan made his first appearance in the main singles draw of a Grand Slam at the 1981 Australian Open, where he lost in the opening round to P ...
. He did, however, play Challenger events in the United States and partnered with American
John Hayes in the men's doubles at the
1979 US Open. At 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 ...
, he made it through the qualifying draw and was beaten in the first round by
Tony Roche
Anthony Dalton Roche Order of Australia, AO Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 17 May 1945) is an Australian former professional tennis player.
A native of Tarcutta, Roche played junior tennis in the New South Wales regional city of Wagg ...
.
He has run a tennis school in the northern Sydney suburb of
Mona Vale since 1987.
Grand Prix career finals
Doubles: 1 (0–1)
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian male tennis players
Tennis people from New South Wales
Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles
20th-century Australian people
Sportsmen from New South Wales