Dick Crealy 
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Nation:
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Australia Australia
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Birthday:
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September 18, 1944
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Size:
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191 cm
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Weight:
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85 kg
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Resignation:
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1981
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Playing hand:
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Right
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| singles
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Career record:
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281: 282
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Career title:
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2
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Highest ranking:
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36 (July 2 1977)
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| Grand Slam record
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Grand Slam title: 00000 0
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| Double
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Career record:
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261: 239
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Career title:
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6th
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| Grand Slam record
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Grand Slam title: 00000 2
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| Mixed
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| Grand Slam record
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Grand Slam title: 00000 1
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Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )
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Dick Crealy (born September 18, 1944 in Sydney ) is a retired Australian tennis player . He won two singles and six doubles titles in his career .
Career
In 1968 he won the mixed doubles of the Australian tennis championships against Margaret Smith Court and Allan Stone with the US tennis legend Billie Jean King after they gave up. In the men's doubles, Crealy and Stone won against their compatriots Terry Addison and Ray Keldie in three sets with 10: 8, 6: 4 and 6: 3.
In 1970 he made it into the final of the Australian Open in singles against the American Arthur Ashe , but lost to him in three sets with 4: 6, 7: 9 and 2: 6. At the Swedish Open in Båstad in 1970 he won singles in three sets 6: 3, 6: 1 and 6: 1 against French Georges Goven and in doubles together with Stone against Yugoslav Željko Franulović and Czechoslovak Jan Kodeš after they gave up .
The doubles competition at the French Open in 1974 won Crealy with the New Zealander Onny Parun against the Americans Stan Smith and Bob Lutz in five sets 6: 3, 6: 2, 3: 6, 5: 7 and 6: 1. Between 1968 and 1975 Crealy won a total of eight tournaments , two of them in singles and six tournaments in doubles.
Tournament victories
singles
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date
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competition
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Final opponent
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Result
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July 11, 1970
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Sweden Båstad
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France Georges Goven
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6: 3, 6: 1, 6: 1
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April 28, 1975
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France Nice
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Colombia Iván Molina
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7: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
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Double
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date
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competition
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partner
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Final opponent
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Result
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19th January 1968
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Australia Australian Open
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Australia Allan Stone
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Australia Terry Addison Ray Keldie
Australia
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10: 8, 6: 4, 6: 3
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July 11, 1970
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Sweden Båstad
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Australia Allan Stone
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Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic Željko Franulović Jan Kodeš
Czech Republic
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Victory by giving up
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October 18, 1970
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United States Phoenix
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Australia Ray Ruffels
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Czech Republic Jan Kodeš Charlie Pasarell
United States
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7: 6, 6: 3
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| 4th
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February 18, 1974
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United States Hempstead WCT
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United States Jeff Borowiak
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Australia Ross Case Geoff Masters
United States
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6: 7, 6: 4, 6: 4
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3rd June 1974
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France French Open
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New Zealand Onny Parun
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United States Bob Lutz Stan Smith
United States
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6: 3, 6: 2, 3: 6, 5: 7, 6: 1
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| 6th
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18th January 1975
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United States Baltimore
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Australia Ray Ruffels
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Egypt Ismail El Shafei Frew McMillan
South Africa
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6: 4, 6: 3
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Željko Franulović Jan Kodeš