Paul Arden Willey was a Canadian
tennis
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player.
Willey, the Canadian junior champion in 1949, attended Vancouver's
Kitsilano Secondary School.
In 1954 he won the Ontario Championships in singles, and was runner-up at the same event in 1956 to
Bob Bédard and in 1957 to
Don Fontana, in the latter tournament playing with a sore elbow. In 1956, he defeated
Nicola Pietrangeli
Nicola "Nicky" Pietrangeli (; born 11 September 1933) is a former Italian tennis player. He won two singles titles at the French Championships and is considered by many to be Italy's greatest tennis champion.
Biography
Born 11 September 1933, in ...
on red clay at Florence, and in 1957 he defeated
Mal Anderson
Malcolm James Anderson (born 3 March 1935) is a former tennis player from Australia who was active from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. He won the singles title at the 1957 U.S. National Championships and achieved his highest amateur ranki ...
on grass at Southampton. He won several tournaments in British Columbia in the late 1950s.
He played for the
Canada Davis Cup team
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The team won their first Davis Cup in 2022, beating Australia 2-0 in ...
from 1953 to 1958 and had a singles win against American
Barry MacKay in 1956. Between 1959 and 1963 he served as Canada's national coach, before relocating to Arizona with wife Colleen.
See also
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List of Canada Davis Cup team representatives
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Year of birth missing
2005 deaths
Canadian male tennis players
Racket sportspeople from British Columbia
Sportspeople from Vancouver
Canadian emigrants to the United States