Allen Fox
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 United States
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| Residence | San Luis Obispo, California | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
June 25, 1939 Los Angeles, California |
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| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | |||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 1955 (amateur tour) | |||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| College | University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) | |||||||||||||||
| Official website | AllenFoxTennis.net | |||||||||||||||
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| French Open | 2R (1965, 1968) | |||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | QF (1965) | |||||||||||||||
| US Open | 4R (1960, 1961) | |||||||||||||||
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Dr. Allen E. Fox (born June 25, 1939) is a former world class tennis player in the 1960s and 1970s who went on to be a college coach and author. He was ranked as high as U.S. No. 4 in 1962, and was in the top ten in the U.S. five times between 1961 and 1968.
Fox attended Beverly Hills High School, and played tennis for the school.
In 1960, he won the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) doubles title with Larry Nagler for the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1961, as team captain, Fox won the NCAA singles title. He only lost twice in dual match play while in college, to Rafael Osuna and Chuck McKinley. He was named All-American in 1959, 1960, and 1961, and was named All-UCLA and All-University of California Athlete of the Year. Fox helped lead UCLA to NCAA team championships in 1960 and 1961. He graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in physics in 1961, and later earned a Ph.D. there in psychology.
When he graduated, Fox was the 4th-ranked singles player in the United States. He won the singles title at Cincinnati in 1961. He won also the 1962 US National Hard Court title. That year, he reached the singles final in Cincinnati, falling to Marty Riessen. In 1965 he reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon.
In 1966, he won the Canadian Nationals and the (40th annual) Mercedes-Benz Cup, formerly known as the Pacific Southwest Championships, as a graduate student, beating the then-current Champions of all four Major Slams – Manuel Santana,Wimbledon, Fred Stolle,US, Tony Roche,French, and Roy Emerson,Australian, in the Finals.
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