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1977 French Open – Men's Doubles
Fred McNair and Sherwood Stewart were the defending champions but lost in the first round to Greg Halder and Dale Power. Brian Gottfried and Raúl Ramírez won in the final 7–6, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 against Wojciech Fibak and Jan Kodeš. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 References External links1977 French Open – Men's draws and resultsat the International Tennis Federation The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national tennis associations. there are 211 nat ... {{DEFAULTSORT:1977 French Open - Men's Doubles Men's Doubles French Open by year – Men's doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Gottfried
Brian Edward Gottfried (born January 27, 1952) is an American retired tennis player who won 25 singles titles and 54 doubles titles during his professional career. He was the runner-up in singles at the 1977 French Open – Men's singles, 1977 French Open, won the 1975 and 1977 French Open Doubles as well as the 1976 Wimbledon Doubles. He achieved a career-high singles ranking on the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP tour on June 19, 1977, when he became world No. 3, and a career-high doubles ranking on December 12, 1976, when he became world No. 2. Tennis career Junior and college Gottfried was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and is Jewish. He began playing tennis at the age of 5, after receiving a racquet as a gift. In all, Gottfried won 14 national junior titles. As a teen Gottfried attended Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Piper High School (Florida), Piper High School in Sunrise, Florida. In 1970, as a freshman at Trinity University (Texas), Trinity Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Meiler
Karl Meiler (30 April 1949 – 17 April 2014) was a tennis player from West Germany who was active in the 1970s and 1980s. Meiler won four singles (1972, Buenos Aires; 1974, Omaha and Calgary; 1977, Manila) and 17 doubles titles during his professional career. He notably beat top seed Ken Rosewall Kenneth Robert Rosewall (born 2 November 1934) is an Australian former World number one male tennis player rankings, world No. 1 professional tennis player. Rosewall won 147 singles titles, including 23 majors: a record 15 Major professional te ... in the 1973 Australian Open, where he went on to reach the semifinals. Meiler reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 23 August 1973 when he became world No. 20. He died aged 64 on 17 April 2014 of complications from a head injury sustained in a domestic accident in November 2013. ATP career finals Singles: 17 (4 titles, 13 runner-ups) Doubles: 24 (17 titles, 7 runner-ups) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSOR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter McNamara
Peter McNamara (5 July 1955 – 20 July 2019) was an Australian tennis player and coach. McNamara won five singles titles and nineteen doubles titles in his career. A right-hander, McNamara reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 14 March 1983 when he became world No. 7. McNamara and fellow Australian Paul McNamee won the 1980 and 1982 men's doubles championship at Wimbledon and the Australian Open doubles in 1979. McNamara's highest rank in doubles was No. 3. After retiring as a player, McNamara coached professionals including Mark Philippoussis, Grigor Dimitrov, Matthew Ebden and Wang Qiang. McNamara died on 20 July 2019, at the age of 64, from prostate cancer Prostate cancer is the neoplasm, uncontrolled growth of cells in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system below the bladder. Abnormal growth of the prostate tissue is usually detected through Screening (medicine), screening tests, .... Career finals Singles (5 titles, 7 runner-ups) Doubles ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Naegelen
Denis Naegelen (born 14 March 1952) is a former professional tennis player from France. Career Naegelen competed in the French Open every year from 1973 to 1983, with the exception of 1979. He had his best singles performance at the 1980 French Open, where he beat Jiří Hřebec and Terry Rocavert. In third round he wasted a two set lead to lose to American Ferdi Taygan, 9–11 in the fifth. He also took part in the 1973 Australian Open and made the second round of both the singles and doubles. In 1976, Naegelen was a quarter-finalist at a Grand Prix tournament in Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i .... He and Patrice Dominguez were doubles champions at the 1979 Bordeaux Open. Grand Prix career finals Doubles: 1 (1–0) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Barthès
Pierre Barthès (born 13 September 1941) is a retired French tennis player. Career Born in Béziers, Barthès was one of the Handsome Eight, a group of players signed by Lamar Hunt in 1968 for the newly formed professional World Championship Tennis (WCT) group. In 1974, he reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 54, though this is not a true indication, as he was one of the top 20 players in 1971 before the creation of the ATP ranking system, making the year-end Masters the same year. He was also a US Open doubles champion in 1970, partnering Nikola Pilić. Barthès won the 1963 Pau Championships defeating Pierre Darmon in the final. Barthès won the Paris Indoor Championships and the Coupe Albert Canet in 1963 defeating Darmon in the final. Barthès won the International Championships of Egypt in Cairo in 1964 on clay defeating Martin Mulligan, Ismail El Shafei, and Istvan Gulyas in the final. Barthès won the Altamira International Invitation in Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Šimbera
Jan Šimbera (born 3 November 1951) is a Czech former professional tennis player who competed for Czechoslovakia during the 1970s. He has served as team captain of the Czech Republic Fed Cup team, which included an appearance in the semi-finals in 2000. Šimbera won the Scandinavian Championships in 1975 and qualified for two grand slam singles main draws during his career. He debuted at the 1977 French Open, where he lost his first round match to Pavel Huťka in five sets. At the 1978 Wimbledon Championships he beat former quarter-finalist Charlie Pasarell during his qualifying run, then won his first round match over Andrew Jarrett Andrew Jarrett (born 9 January 1958) is a former professional tennis player from the United Kingdom. Jarrett was educated at Millfield from 1969 to 1975. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won one d .... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Simbera, Jan 1951 births Living people Cze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Huťka
Pavel Huťka (born 28 February 1949) is a Czech former professional tennis player and current tennis trainer. Career Hutka held a match point against Italy's Adriano Panatta in the opening round of the 1976 French Open, but lost 10–12 in the fifth set.''The Age''"Champion scrapes through" 4 June 1976, pg. 13 The Italian went on to win the tournament. He made the third round of the 1977 French Open (beating Jan Šimbera and Brian Teacher) and appeared in a further three French Opens, without matching that effort. Hutka was a doubles finalist at Kitzbuhel in 1979. He and partner Pavel Složil lost the final to Mike Fishbach and Chris Lewis. On the Grand Prix singles circuit he made three quarter-finals at Munich in 1975, Nice in 1978 Nice and Stuttgart Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Kirmayr
Carlos Kirmayr (born 23 September 1950) is a retired Brazilian professional tennis player. Kirmayr won a total of 10 Grand Prix ( , meaning ''Grand Prize''; plural ''Grands Prix'') most commonly refers to: * Grand Prix motor racing, a form of motorsport competition ** List of Formula One Grands Prix, an auto-racing championship *** Monaco Grand Prix, the most prestigious ... doubles titles. In singles, he achieved a career-high ranking of World No. 36. Career finals Singles 6 (1–5) Doubles 24 (10–14) External links * * * 1950 births Living people Brazilian people of German descent Brazilian male tennis players Tennis players from São Paulo 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen {{Brazil-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Luis Clerc
José Luis Clerc (; born 16 August 1958), also known by the nickname Batata, is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. He reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world No. 4 singles ranking on 3 August 1981, following a run of 25 consecutive match wins after Wimbledon. Tennis career Clerc represented Argentina for the Davis Cup from 1976 to 1989. He and Guillermo Vilas led Argentina to its first Davis Cup final in 1981 to set up a tie against United States in Cincinnati, Ohio. After Vilas lost the first rubber in straight sets to John McEnroe, Clerc defeated Roscoe Tanner in straight sets in the second rubber to level the tie. During the third rubber, partnering Vilas, the pair lost to Fleming/McEnroe in doubles, 9–11 in the fifth and deciding set. Clerc then played McEnroe in the fourth rubber and eventually lost in 5 sets. Clerc, with Vilas and Carlos Gattiker won the 1980 World Team Cup in Düsseldorf. Clerc defeated former French Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balázs Taróczy
Balázs Taróczy (; born 9 May 1954) is a retired tennis player from Hungary. The right-hander won 13 singles titles in his career, and achieved a career-high singles ranking A ranking is a relationship between a set of items, often recorded in a list, such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than", or "ranked equal to" the second. In mathematics, this is known as a weak ... of world No. 12 in April 1982. Tennis career Taróczy was six times a Hungarian national champion. He also won the Dutch Open on six occasions (1976, 1978–82), which made up nearly half of his total number of singles titles. One of the game's premier doubles players, Balazs and partner Heinz Günthardt won the 1985 Wimbledon doubles title. Though never especially proficient on the grass, the duo defeated the Australian pair Pat Cash and John Fitzgerald in four sets. He became the Hungarian No. 1 player in 1973 and was a member of the Hungary Davis Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
František Pála
František Pála (born 28 March 1944) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic who competed for Czechoslovakia. His son Petr was also a tennis player. Career The Czechoslovak player took part in 15 Davis Cup ties for his national team, the first in 1966. At a tie in Barcelona in 1972, Pala had a win over Manuel Orantes. Earlier that year, in a tie against Sweden, Pala defeated Björn Borg, although the Swede was only 15 at the time. In all he played 25 rubbers, of which he won 15, all but one of them in singles. He later served as Czechoslovak Davis Cup captain. Pala, who won the Czechoslovakian Championships in 1973, played in the singles draw of 18 Grand Slam tournaments and made the third round three times, at the 1970 French Open, 1972 French Open and 1972 Wimbledon Championships. He had his best year on the tennis circuit in 1972, when he was a finalist at Monte Carlo and Madrid, losing both matches to Ilie Năstase Ilie Theodoriu Năstase (; bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Edmondson
Mark Edmondson (born 28 June 1954 in Gosford, New South Wales) is a retired Australian professional tennis player. Edmondson won the 1976 Australian Open while ranked 212th in the world, and remains the lowest-ranked winner of a Grand Slam tournament since the ATP rankings were introduced in 1973. He is the last Australian to date to win the men's singles at the Australian Open. Edmondson's best subsequent performance in Grand Slams was reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open in 1981 and Wimbledon in 1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ..., which took him to a career-high singles ranking of #15. As a doubles player, he won 34 titles, including five in Grand Slams. Grand Slam performance Grand Slam singles performance timeline Grand Slam finals, 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |