Pat Cash

Pat Cash (b. 1965), professional tennis player, emerged as a potential top-ten player as a teenager, when he won the junior doubles at the French Open, the junior singles and doubles titles at Wimbledon, and the US Open junior singles – all within a few months of each other in 1982. Later that year he joined the ATP men's tour, and in 1983, in helping Australia defeat Sweden for the 1983 Davis Cup, he became the youngest ever player to contest a Davis Cup Final. In 1984 he reached the men’s singles semi-finals at Wimbledon and at the US Open, and finished the year inside the top ten on the ATP world rankings. At the peak of his career he was ranked number 4 in the world. After another Davis Cup triumph over Sweden in 1986, he was runner-up to Stefan Edberg in the singles final at the Australian Open in 1987. He went one better when he defeated World No. 1 Ivan Lendl in straight sets for the Wimbledon singles crown several months later. Cash famously scaled the stands to embrace the occupants of his supporters' box, initiating what has become something of a standard Wimbledon victory celebration. Runner-up for the men's singles at the Australian Open in 1988, Cash's career was somewhat curtailed the following year when he suffered the first in a series of injuries which ultimately led to his withdrawal from the ATP tour in 1997. In retirement he has worked as a broadcaster and commentator for CNN and the BBC and has become something of a drawcard on the legends circuit, winning four consecutive Wimbledon doubles titles with compatriot Mark Woodforde between 2010 and 2013. He was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2005.

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