Fritz Buehning (born March 5, 1960) is an American former
tennis
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player.
Born in
Summit, New Jersey
Summit is the northernmost City (New Jersey), city of Union County, New Jersey, Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located within the New York metropolitan area. Situated on a ridge in north Jersey, northern–central Jersey, centra ...
, Buehning grew up in
Millburn, New Jersey and attended
Millburn High School, where he won the New Jersey state individual tennis championship in 1977 as a junior, his final year in high school. He attended
University of California, Los Angeles
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, where he was recognized as Pac-10 Player of the Year and an All-American and was part of a tennis team that won the NCAA championship.
[Best Boys Tennis Team of the Century]
'' The Star-Ledger''. Accessed December 10, 2007.
Buehning achieved top rankings of No. 21 in singles and No. 4 in doubles, ending his career as a result of a foot injury after five seasons on the tour. On professional tournaments, he won one singles title and 12 doubles titles. Partnered with
Van Winitsky, he lost the 1983
US Open finals to the team of
Peter Fleming and
John McEnroe
John Patrick McEnroe Jr. (born February 16, 1959) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players, singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ...
.
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Career finals
Singles: 2 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)
Doubles: 27 (12 titles, 15 runner-ups)
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1960 births
Living people
American male tennis players
Millburn High School alumni
Sportspeople from Millburn, New Jersey
Sportspeople from Summit, New Jersey
Tennis players from New Jersey
UCLA Bruins men's tennis players
Tennis players at the 1979 Pan American Games
Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in tennis
20th-century American sportsmen