Bobby Banck (born May 16, 1964) is an American

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 ...

coach and former professional player. Banck, who grew up in

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, was a national 14-and-under hard court champion. Another Buffalo product

Jimmy Arias James Arias (born August 16, 1964) is a retired tennis touring professional player from the United States. Biography Arias was born in Grand Island, New York on August 16, 1964. A baseliner, Arias turned pro at age 16 in 1980. His peak year wa ...

was in his age group and the pair combined to win a national doubles championship. Trained at the Nick Bollitieri academy in Florida from 1980, Banck received a scholarship to the

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and played there for two years. In 1986 he turned professional. He appeared in the main draw of the 1987 WCT Tournament of Champions and was beaten in the second round by

Slobodan Živojinović Slobodan "Boba" Živojinović ( sr-Cyrl, Слободан Живојиновић, ; born 23 July 1963) is a Serbian former professional tennis player who competed for SFR Yugoslavia. Together with Nenad Zimonjić, he is the only tennis player ...

. Banck starting his coaching career with Jimmy Arias and later coached

Aaron Krickstein Aaron Krickstein (born August 2, 1967), nicknamed "Marathon Man", is an American former professional tennis player who competed on the ATP Tour from 1983 to 1996. He currently competes on the Outback Champions Series Over-30 tour. Krickstein r ...

. On the women's tour he has coached

Mary Joe Fernández Mary Joe Fernández Godsick (born María José Fernández; August 19, 1971) is an American former professional tennis player, who reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in both singles and doubles. In singles, Fernández was the runner-up ...

Mary Pierce Mary Caroline Pierce (born 15 January 1975) is a French former professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 3 in singles and in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Pierce won 18 singles titles on the WTA Tour, including two ...

and

Monica Seles Monica Seles (born December 2, 1973) is a Serbian–American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for ...

. In 2006 he was inducted into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Banck, Bobby 1964 births Living people American male tennis players Tennis coaches from New York (state) Arkansas Razorbacks men's tennis players Tennis players from New York (state) Sportspeople from Buffalo, New York 20th-century American sportsmen