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1984 Livingston Open – Doubles
This was the first edition of the event. Scott Davis (tennis), Scott Davis and Ben Testerman won the title, defeating Paul Annacone and Glenn Michibata 6–4, 6–4 in the final. Seeds # Fritz Buehning / Peter Fleming (tennis), Peter Fleming ''(first round)'' # John Alexander (tennis), John Alexander / Johan Kriek ''(semifinals)'' # Larry Stefanki / Robert Van't Hof ''(first round)'' # Tony Giammalva / John Lloyd (tennis), John Lloyd ''(first round)'' Draw Draw External links Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:1984 Livingston Open - Doubles 1984 Livingston Open 1984 Grand Prix (tennis) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Davis (tennis)
Scott Davis (born August 27, 1962) is an American former professional tennis player. He reached a career high singles ranking of world No. 11 (in October 1985) and doubles ranking of world No. 2 (in January 1991). Tennis career A right-handed serve and volleyer, Davis played 14 years on the tour. He won three singles titles – the 1983 Maui, 1985 Tokyo Outdoor, and 1990 Auckland Grand Prix events – and 22 doubles titles. His biggest doubles tournament win was the 1991 Australian Open, partnering David Pate. Other big doubles wins included the 1990 Los Angeles, Indianapolis, and Paris Open, and 1993 Indianapolis Grand Prix events, all partnering Pate. Davis was also doubles finalist at the 1991 US Open with Pate. In 1985, he had won the Los Angeles Open with Robert Van't Hof as an unseeded team. Prior to turning professional, Davis played college tennis at Stanford University, leading the Cardinal to the 1983 NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Van Patten
Vincent Van Patten (born October 17, 1957) is an American actor, former professional tennis player, and the commentator for the World Poker Tour. Early and personal life Van Patten was born in Bellerose, New York, as the youngest son of actor Dick Van Patten and his wife, Patricia Helon "Pat" Van Patten (née Poole), a former June Taylor dancer. He is of Dutch, English, and Italian descent. He was first urged into show business at age nine by his father's agent. He appeared in more than thirty commercials, including Colgate toothpaste, before his father was cast in the TV series, ''Arnie'', and moved his family from Long Island to Los Angeles. From his first marriage to Betsy Russell he has two sons: Richard and Vince. His second marriage, on April 15, 2003, was to ''The Young and the Restless'' actress Eileen Davidson; they have one child together, a son named Jesse Thomas Van Patten. Vince is related to several other well-known actors, actresses, and singers through blood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Meyer (tennis)
Richard "Rick" Meyer (born September 4, 1955) is a former professional tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player from the United States. During his career, he won one singles title and one doubles title. Career finals Singles (1 win, 1 loss) Doubles (1 win, 2 losses) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Meyer, Richard American male tennis players Tennis players from New York City American people of German descent Living people 1955 births 20th-century American sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Scheinman
Adam Scheinman is an American screenwriter and former professional tennis player. Scheinman studied at the University of Virginia, where he was a member of the varsity tennis team, before competing on the professional tour during the 1980s. He featured in the men's doubles main draw of the 1982 Wimbledon Championships. As a screenwriter his credits include the film ''Mickey Blue Eyes'', starring Hugh Grant. His brother Andrew Andrew is the English form of the given name, common in many countries. The word is derived from the , ''Andreas'', itself related to ''aner/andros'', "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "brave", "strong", "c ..., who was also a tennis player, is a film and television producer. References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Scheinman, Adam Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male tennis players American male screenwriters Virginia Cavaliers men's tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonzalo Núñez
Gonzalo Núñez (born July 21, 1954) is an Ecuadorian-American former professional tennis player. Núñez was born in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil and moved to the United States in the mid-1970s to live with relatives in New Jersey. He played collegiate tennis for the University of Texas and was the 1975 national amateur grass court champion. A Davis Cup representative for Ecuador in 1975, Núñez competed on the Grand Prix circuit mostly in doubles tournaments. He won an ATP Challenger The ATP Challenger Tour (known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series) is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. It was founded in 1976 as a replacement for the ILTF Satellite Circuit (founded in 1971) as ... doubles title in Barcelona in 1981. Challenger titles Doubles: (1) See also * List of Ecuador Davis Cup team representatives References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Núñez, Gonzalo 1954 births Living people Ecuadorian male t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rand Evett
Rand Evett (born March 1, 1954) is an American former professional tennis player. Evett, the son of a Yale physics instructor, was raised in Tucson, Arizona, where he attended Catalina High School. During the early 1970s he played collegiate tennis for the University of Arizona and won back to back WAC singles championships in 1972 and 1973. He also earned NCAA All-American honors in 1973 and 1974. In 1974 he and De Armond Briggs won the doubles title at the national amateur grass‐court championships. On the professional tour, Evett reached a best world ranking of 219, making singles main draw appearances at the Australian Open and Wimbledon. He had a win over world number 33 Shlomo Glickstein in Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ... in 1983. As a doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney Crowley
Thomas Rodney Crowley Jr. (September 22, 1958 – May 22, 1991) was an American professional tennis player. Crowley was raised in New Jersey, the son of businessman Thomas Rodney Crowley Sr. His mother, Huguette, was a French national and met Thomas Sr when he was stationed in Algeria during the war. From 1976 to 1980, Crowley was a collegiate tennis player for the University of Virginia and served a period as team captain. Unusually, he would play his ground stokes right-handed but served with his left hand. Active on the professional tour during the 1980s, Crowley was most successful as a doubles player, appearing in the main draws of all four grand slam tournaments. He and regular doubles partner Rand Evett made the third round of the 1983 US Open (tennis), 1983 US Open. At the start of the 1984 season he was ranked 89 in the world for doubles. Crowley died from brain cancer in 1991, at the age of 32. The University of Virginia's T. Rodney Crowley, Jr. Memorial Scholarship F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McCurdy (tennis)
John McCurdy (born 13 May 1960) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Career McCurdy made his first Grand Slam singles appearance at the 1982 Australian Open, where he had an opening round win over Sweden's Henrik Sundström, before being eliminated in the second round by John Sadri. At the 1983 Wimbledon Championships, the Australian made it as far as the fourth round, with wins over Juan Avendaño, Claudio Panatta and Cássio Motta. He had only entered the main draw due to the withdrawal of American player Jay Turpin. He lost in the first round of the 1983 US Open, to Eliot Teltscher. McCurdy defeated John Frawley in the opening round of the 1983 Australian Open and was then beaten by Andy Andrews in the second round. As a doubles player, he made the third round of the Australian Open in 1982, with Peter Johnston, whom he would partner at four further Grand Slam tournaments. McCurdy and Johnston were finalists at Melbourne's Black and Decker Indoor Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Doyle (tennis)
Matthew Doyle (1954 or 1955 – 8 February 2025) was an American-Irish professional tour tennis player. His best result was reaching the fourth round of the US Open in 1982. He was also a long-time Irish Davis Cup player. After retiring from playing, he was Ireland's coach for several years. Early life and education Matthew Doyle was born in California in 1954 or 1955. He was of Irish descent. He studied economics at Yale University, graduating in 1978. Doyle played at different times basketball, golf and tennis while at university. Tour overview Doyle defeated Ricardo Acuña, Mark Edmondson and Hans Simonsson, all in four sets, to reach the Round of 16 at the 1982 US Open, where he went down to another American of Irish descent, John McEnroe, in straight sets. He won one singles tour title, the 1983 Cologne Grand Prix, and reached a career high singles ranking of world No. 65, in March, 1982. Doyle also reached the 3rd round of the 1984 Australian Open, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kures
Michael Kures (born July 25, 1964) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He was born in Czechoslovakia, but moved to the United States at age four. Career Kures, with partner Jonathan Canter, won the boys' doubles title at the 1982 US Open. The pair had been runner-up at the French Open earlier that year. He played collegiate tennis for the University of California, Los Angeles in the early 1980s. In 1984, he was an All-American and a member of the NCAA championship winning team.''News and Courier''"UCLA Wins Ncaa Tennis Crown" May 16, 1984, p. 20 In 1985, he earned All-American honours again and made the Division I singles final, which he lost to Mikael Pernfors. On the Grand Prix tennis circuit, Kures had his best result at the Boston Pro Championships in 1988, beating Roberto Argüello, John Ross and world number-nine Brad Gilbert, before losing to Bruno Orešar in the quarter-finals. He was a doubles semi-finalist at the 1987 Seoul Open, part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Klaparda
Jeff Klaparda (born November 7, 1963) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Klaparda, who is Jewish, won a gold medal at the 1981 Maccabiah Games in Israel, in the mixed doubles with Andrea Leand. He went to UCLA in the early 1980s and was an All-American player on the UCLA Bruins, tennis team. In the 1984 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships he was captain of the UCLA side that won the Championship and he also made the semi-finals of the singles. He won the 1984 USTA National Amateur Clay Courts title. At a Grand Prix tennis circuit, Grand Prix tournament in Grand Prix Cleveland, Cleveland in 1984, Klaparda had an upset win over top 20 player Bill Scanlon, before exiting in the semi-finals. Soon after he qualified for the main draw in the 1984 US Open (tennis), 1984 US Open and beat countryman John Hayes (tennis), John Hayes in the first round, then lost a four-set second round match to eight seed Aaron Krickstein. It was his only Grand Slam a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leif Shiras
George Livingston "Leif" Shiras (born August 21, 1959) is an American former professional tennis player and current tennis commentator. Personal life George Livingston Shiras was born in August 21, 1959 in Norwalk, Connecticut and raised in Rowayton, Connecticut until his family moved to Shorewood, Wisconsin in 1963 for his father's job in public relations. He attended Shorewood High School, where he played tennis, basketball, and volleyball. But he was most drawn to tennis after growing up watching his parents play the sport recreationally and he became the State High School champion in his junior and senior years, leading him to earn the No. 1-ranked under-18 player in Wisconsin.Doyle, Candace"Serving up fund-raiser" ''Greater Milwaukee Today'', May 26, 2004. Accessed September 17, 2007. "He attended Shorewood High School, Shorewood Intermediate School and Lake Bluff Elementary School." Shiras attended his father's alma-mater of Princeton University to pursue a bachelor's deg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |