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 cov ...

player from Australia.

Biography

As a junior, Davies won the boys' doubles title at the

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, 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

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. 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

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, he made it through the qualifying draw and was beaten in the first round by

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. 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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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, Phil 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