Pat Cash
Pat Cash at the 2015 Australian Open
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| Country (sports) |
 Australia
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| Residence | London, United Kingdom |
| Born |
27 May 1965 Melbourne, Australia |
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) |
| Turned pro | 1982 |
| Retired | 2006 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | US$ 1,950,345 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 243–148 (Grand Slam, ATP Tour, Grand Prix and WCT level, and Davis Cup) |
| Career titles | 6 |
| Highest ranking | No. 4 (9 May 1988) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | F (1987, 1988) |
| French Open | 4R (1988) |
| Wimbledon | W (1987) |
| US Open | SF (1984) |
| Other tournaments | |
| Tour Finals | RR (1987) |
| WCT Finals | QF (1988) |
| Olympic Games | 1R (1984, demonstration event) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 174–110 (Grand Slam, ATP Tour, Grand Prix and WCT level, and Davis Cup) |
| Career titles | 12 |
| Highest ranking | No. 6 (13 August 1984) |
| Team competitions | |
| Davis Cup | W (1983, 1986) |
Patrick Hart Cash (born 27 May 1965) is a retired Australian professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 4 in May 1988 and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 6 in August 1988. He has been described as one of the greatest net players of all time.http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/players/pat-cash/c023/rankings-history After winning the men's singles championship at Wimbledon in 1987, he climbing into the stands to celebrate, starting a tradition which has been followed by many winners in subsequent years.
The son of Pat Cash Sr., an Australian rules football player for Hawthorn, Cash first came to the tennis world's attention as a prominent and promising junior player in the early 1980s. He was awarded a scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport. He was ranked the No. 1 junior player in the world in 1981.
In June 1982, Cash won the junior doubles title at the French Open partnering John Frawley. In July he won the junior singles title at Wimbledon, and while partnering Frawley, he also won the junior doubles title at the same tournament. In September, he won the junior singles title at the US Open, and while partnering Frawley, he was also the runner-up of the junior doubles at the same tournament.
Cash turned professional in 1982 and won his first top-level singles title that year in Melbourne.
Cash established a reputation on the tour as a hard-fighting serve-and-volleyer and for wearing his trademark black-and-white checked headband and his cross earring.
In 1983, Cash became the youngest player to play in a Davis Cup final. He won the decisive singles rubber against Joakim Nyström as Australia defeated Sweden 3–2 to claim the cup.
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