Gene Mayer

Gene Mayer
Gene Mayer at the ABN Tennis Tournament in 1979
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	April 11, 1956
Size:	183 cm
Weight:	68 kg
1st professional season:	1973
Resignation:	1986 (brief comeback 2001)
Playing hand:	Right, forehand and backhand with both hands
Prize money:	$ 1,382,422
singles
Career record:	323: 160
Career title:	14th
Highest ranking:	4 (October 6, 1980)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	167: 91
Career title:	15th
Highest ranking:	5 (July 9 1979)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Gene Mayer (born April 11, 1956 in Flushing ) is a retired American tennis player .

The right-hander won 14 singles and 15 doubles titles in his career. He played forehand and backhand with both hands and achieved his best placement on the ATP world rankings on October 6, 1980 with place 4.

Career

Mayer grew up in Wayne , New Jersey , and played tennis at the local Wayne Valley High School . He remained undefeated during his two-year tenure on the tennis school team.

Between 1982 and 1983 he played a total of three games for the US Davis Cup team . He won four of his six individual games.

In 2005 he was inducted into the Naussau County Sports Hall of Fame .

His older brother Sandy was also a professional tennis player, who achieved his best world ranking with position 7 in 1982. The two met in the 1981 final of the Stockholm Open ; together they won five doubles tournaments, including the 1979 French Open .

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	1978	Guadalajara	Clay court	John Newcombe	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	1979	Cologne	Hard court (hall)	Wojciech Fibak	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 1
3.	1980	Denver	carpet	Victor Amaya	6: 2, 6: 2
4th	1980	Metz	carpet	Gianni Ocleppo	6: 3, 6: 3, 6: 0
5.	1980	los Angeles	Hard court	Brian Teacher	6: 3, 6: 2
6th	1980	Cleveland	Hard court	Victor Amaya	6: 2, 6: 1
7th	1980	San Francisco	carpet	Eliot Teltscher	6: 2, 2: 6, 6: 1
8th.	1981	Memphis	carpet	Roscoe Tanner	6: 2, 6: 4
9.	1981	Denver	carpet	John Sadri	6: 4, 6: 4
10.	1981	Cleveland	Hard court	Dave Siegler	6: 1, 6: 4
11.	1981	Stockholm	Hard court (hall)	Sandy Mayer	6: 4, 6: 2
12.	1982	Munich	Clay court	Peter Elter	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2, 6: 1
13.	1983	Rotterdam	Hard court (hall)	Guillermo Vilas	6: 1, 7: 6
14th	1983	los Angeles	Hard court	Johan Kriek	7: 6, 6: 1

Double

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	1978	Mexico City WCT	Hard court	Sashi Menon	Marcello Lara Raúl Ramírez	6: 3, 7: 6
2.	1978	Miami Masters	carpet	Tom Gullikson	Bob Carmichael Brian Teacher	7: 6, 6: 3
3.	1978	San Jose	carpet	Sandy Mayer	Hank Pfister Brad Rowe	6: 3, 6: 4
4th	1978	French Open	Clay court	Hank Pfister	Manuel Orantes José Higueras	6: 3, 6: 2, 6: 2
5.	1978	Cincinnati Masters	Clay court	Raúl Ramírez	Ismail El Shafei Brian Fairlie	6: 3, 6: 3
6th	1978	Houston	Clay court	Hank Pfister	Jeff Borowiak Chris Lewis	6: 3, 6: 1
7th	1979	Indian Wells Masters	Hard court	Sandy Mayer	Cliff Drysdale Bruce Manson	6: 4, 7: 6
8th.	1979	River Oaks	Clay court	Sherwood Stewart	John Alexander Geoff Masters	6: 1, 5: 7, 6: 4
9.	1979	French Open	Clay court	Sandy Mayer	Ross Case Phil Dent	6: 4, 6: 4, 6: 4
10.	1979	Houston	Clay court	John McEnroe	Jan Kodeš Tomáš Šmíd	6: 4, 7: 6
11.	1979	Cologne Grand Prix	Hard court (hall)	Stan Smith	Heinz Günthardt Pavel Složil	6: 3, 6: 4
12.	1980	Lorraine Open	carpet	Colin Dibley	Chris Delaney Kim Warwick	7: 6, 7: 5
13.	1980	Florence	Clay court	Raúl Ramírez	Paolo Bertolucci Adriano Panatta	6: 1, 6: 4
14th	1980	Boston	Clay court	Sandy Mayer	Hans Gildemeister Andrés Gómez	1: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4
15th	1981	Memphis	carpet	Sandy Mayer	Mike Cahill Tom Gullikson	7: 6, 6: 7, 7: 6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Vilas Extended by Mayer" , The New York Times , 13 February 1997 accessed on December 10 of 2007.
2. ^ Best Boys Tennis Team of the Century , The Star-Ledger , accessed December 10, 2007.
3. ↑ "NC Sports Commission Invites Athlete and Coach Nominations From Community" ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Three Village Times , January 28, 2005, accessed December 22, 2007.  

Web links

Commons : Gene Mayer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Gene Mayer (English)
• ITF-profile Gene Mayer (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Gene Mayer (English)