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1970 US Open – Mixed Doubles
Marty Riessen and Margaret Court were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Frew McMillan and Judy Dalton 6–4, 6–4 in the final. This was the first edition to feature a tie-break. It was used a sudden-death tie-break in all sets, winning the first to reach 5 points. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 References External links1970 US Open – Doubles draws and resultsat the International Tennis Federation {{DEFAULTSORT:1970 US Open - Mixed Doubles Mixed Doubles Mixed doubles or mixed pairs is a form of mixed-sex sports that consists of teams of one man and one woman. This variation of competition is prominent in curling and racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis, and badminton (where it is known ... US Open (tennis) by year – Mixed doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Riessen
Marty Riessen (born December 4, 1941) is an American former amateur and professional tennis player active from the 1960s to the 1980s. He was ranked as high as No. 11 in the world in singles on the ATP rankings in September 1974, though was ranked as high as world No. 8 by Lance Tingay of ''The Daily Telegraph'' in 1971 before the computer rankings. Renowned for his doubles play, Riessen was also a regular doubles partner of Australian tennis great Margaret Court, winning six of his seven major mixed titles and a career Grand Slam alongside her. Additionally a winner of two men's doubles Grand Slams, his highest doubles ranking was No. 3 in March 1980. Career Riessen played collegiate tennis at Northwestern University, where he reached the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) singles finals three times: 1962 (falling to Rafael Osuna of University of Southern California); 1963 and 1964 (falling to Dennis Ralston of USC both times). He was a semifinalist at the NCAA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nell Truman
Frances Ellen 'Nell' Truman Robinson (12 December 1945 – 8 April 2012), was a female tennis player from the United Kingdom active in the 1960s and early 1970s. She was mainly known for her performance as a doubles player. Career Nell Truman was born on 12 December 1945 in Loughton, England, the youngest child of Stanley, a chartered accountant, and Aimee Truman, as well as the sister of tennis player Christine Truman. She attended Queen Anne's School in Caversham, Berkshire, and went on to read geography at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she was awarded blues in tennis and squash. She won a gold medal in the singles event at the 1967 World Student Games in Tokyo. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the final of the doubles event at the 1972 French Open. Partnering compatriot Winnie Shaw, they lost the final in straight sets to Billie Jean King and Betty Stöve. Her best Grand Slam singles performance was reaching the fourth round of the 1969 Wimbled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Stuart (tennis)
Ken Stuart is an American former professional tennis player. Stuart played collegiate tennis for Long Beach State and won the NCAA College Division doubles championship as a senior in 1966 (with Fred Suessmann). He competed briefly on the professional tour and made the singles second round at the 1970 Australian Open. During the 1970s he was married to tennis player Betty Ann Grubb Stuart Betty Ann Grubb Stuart (born February 26, 1950) is a retired American professional tennis player. She had her most significant success in doubles, including reaching the final of the 1977 US Open with Renée Richards as her partner. Personal .... A Southern California Tennis Hall of Fame member, Stuart is the designer and owner of the Palisades Tennis Club. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stuart, Ken Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male tennis players Tennis players from California Long Beach State Beach men's tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Löfdahl Bentzer
Ingrid Bentzer (née Löfdahl, born 6 December 1943) is a Swedish former tennis player who was active in the 1960s and 1970s. She was ranked in the world's Top 15 in the 1970s and was the No. 1 ranked Swedish player in 1973 to 1975. Tennis career From 1965 to 1978, she competed in 13 editions of the Wimbledon Championships. Her best result in the singles competition was reaching the fourth round in 1973 in which she lost to eight-seeded Olga Morozova. In the doubles event, she reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 1971 and 1975, partnering Christina Sandberg and Helena Anliot respectively. During her career, Bentzer won five WTA Tour titles. From 1966 to 1977, she was a member of the Swedish Fed Cup team, and she played 19 ties and compiled a record of 16 wins and 17 losses. Career finals Singles (1 title, 2 runners-up) Sports administration After retiring from active tennis Bentzer served as Head of Women's Professional Tennis for the International Tennis Federa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Dell
Donald L. Dell (born June 17, 1938) is an American sports attorney, writer, commentator, and former tennis player. Dell was the first sports agent in professional tennis, and represented Arthur Ashe, Stan Smith, Jimmy Connors, and Ivan Lendl during the golden age of pro tennis (1975 to 1985). He was also the founder of Professional Services ( ProServ), one of the nation's first sports marketing firms established in 1970. Dell is considered one of the fathers of sports marketing and the sports agent business along with IMG's Mark McCormack. Dell co-founded the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in 1972 with Jack Kramer and Cliff Drysdale. Clients of ProServ dominated the leadership roles of the ATP in its formative years. ProServ expanded into basketball, and Dell signed Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan, and other top NBA players. He wrote his first book, ''Minding Other People’s Business'' in 1989 about how to recruit, manage, market, and keep client athletes, and a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Sandberg
Christina Sandberg (born 11 January 1948) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. She reached the quarterfinals of the 1970 Australian Open in both the singles and doubles. She played for Sweden in the Federation Cup in 25 matches, and she notably defeated Virginia Wade in the first round of the 1968 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles. Federation Cup Sandberg first played for Sweden in the Federation Cup on 10 May 1966 in Turin against Italy, beating Jacqueline Morales 7–9, 6–3, 6–2. She played her last Federation Cup match in May 1974 against Poland in Naples, losing to Barbara Kral 6–1, 6–1. Retrieved 2008-05-01 All together, she played 16 singles, winning 9, and 9 doubles, winning 5. Swedish Open Sandberg became the first Swedish player to win the Swedish Open The Swedish Open is a professional tennis tournament held in Båstad, Sweden. It is played on outdoor clay courts in July. The men's event (sponsored by Skistar) is an ATP Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ove Bengtson
Ove Nils Bengtson (born 5 April 1945) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won five doubles titles. Bengtson was a member of the Swedish Davis Cup team from 1967 to 1979, posting a 7–14 record in singles and a 15–14 record in doubles. He was part of the Swedish team winning the 1975 Davis Cup, defeating Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ... in the final in Stockholm. Career finals Singles: 1 (1 title) Doubles (5 titles, 4 runner-ups) References External links * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bengtson, Ove Nils 1945 births Living people Sportspeople from Danderyd Municipality Swedish male tennis players Tennis players from Stockholm County 20th-ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esmé Emmanuel
Esmé Emmanuel Berg (born 14 June 1947) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. Emmanuel was the girls' singles champion at the 1965 French Championships. She won a doubles gold medal at the 1965 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Her best performance at Wimbledon came in 1972 when she was a doubles quarterfinalist, partnering Ceci Martinez. Biography Born in 1947, Emmanuel is a Sephardi Jew, with a mother who was Turkish born but raised in France. Her father was an emigrant to New York from Salonika, Greece. She studied Economics at San Francisco State University. Emmanuel was the girls' singles champion at the 1965 French Championships. She won a doubles gold medal at the 1965 Maccabiah Games in Ramat Gan Ramat Gan (, ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of the municipality of Tel Aviv, and is part of the Gush Dan, Gush Dan metropolitan area. It is home to a Diamond Exchange District (one of the world's major diamond exch ..., Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pancho Guzmán
J. Francisco Guzmán Carmigniani (born 24 May 1946), known as Pancho Guzmán, is an Ecuadorian former tennis player active in the 1960s and 1970s. Biography Guzmán, the son of a banker, began playing tennis at the age of seven and trained at the Guayaquil Tennis Club. He was 11 when he won his first national title and in 1961 was a finalist in the Orange Bowl. In 1963 he made his Davis Cup debut for Ecuador, for a tie against Trinidad and Tobago, aged only 17. In the 1965 French Championships, Guzmán was in the unusual situation of exiting in the third round, without even playing a match. He received a first round bye, then benefited from a walkover in the second round when number one seed Manuel Santana had to withdraw. In the third round he lost in a walkover to Bill Hoogs. He made the third round again at the 1966 French Championships, but this time featured in the tournament, with wins over Mike Belkin and Terry Ryan. In the mixed doubles he partnered with Helen Gour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Ann Grubb Stuart
Betty Ann Grubb Stuart (born February 26, 1950) is a retired American professional tennis player. She had her most significant success in doubles, including reaching the final of the 1977 US Open with Renée Richards as her partner. Personal life Stuart has been married four times. Her second husband was Ken Stuart. Her third husband was Australian tennis player Phil Dent, and she is the mother of American tennis players Brett Hansen-Dent and Taylor Dent. Her niece is professional beach volleyball player Misty May-Treanor Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor (; née May; born July 30, 1977) is an American retired professional beach volleyball player. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and , was the most successful female beach volleyball player having won 112 tou .... WTA Tour finals Doubles 7 (1/6) References External links * * American female tennis players 1950 births Living people Tennis players from Newport Beach, California 21st-century American wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Taylor (tennis)
George Taylor may refer to: Military *George Taylor (Alamo defender) (c. 1816–1836), soldier in Texas army, died in the Battle of the Alamo * George Taylor (British Army officer) (1905–1994), served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Mau Mau campaign * George Taylor (Medal of Honor) (1830–1893), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient * George A. Taylor (1899–1969), American army officer at D-Day invasion, Battle of Normandy * George P. Taylor (born 1953), American Air Force Surgeon General *George W. Taylor (general) (1808–1862), American Civil War general, Army of the Potomac Politics *George Taylor (Canadian politician) (1840–1919), Canadian House of Commons member *George Taylor (Pennsylvania politician) (c. 1716–1781), signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence * George Taylor (New York Representative) (1820–1894), American congressman from New York * George Taylor (Connecticut politician) (1802–1881), politician and physician * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary-Ann Eisel
Mary–Ann Eisel (born November 25, 1946) also known as Mary–Ann Curtis or Mary–Ann Beattie is an American former tennis player. She was the US Open mixed doubles champion in 1968. Personal life Eisel was born in St. Louis, Missouri, was educated in the Ladue School District, and went on to Washington University in St. Louis, where she competed on the men's tennis team. In 1969, she married fellow tennis player Peter Curtis. Following their divorce, she married Don Beattie on May 12, 1972. In addition to her tennis career, Eisel was an amateur golfer. Career In 1964, Eisel won the US girls' 18 championship. In the same year, she won the Irish National doubles title with Justina Bricka. Eisel reached the finals of the 1967 women's doubles U.S. National Championships at Forrest Hills with Donna Floyd, losing in three sets against Rosemary Casals and Billie Jean King. In 1968, she won the US Open mixed doubles with Peter Curtis, defeating Tory Fretz and Gerry Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
