Paul McNamee

Paul McNamee
Nickname:	Great Macs
Nation:	Australia
Birthday:	November 12, 1954
Size:	178 cm
1st professional season:	1973
Resignation:	1988
Playing hand:	Right
Prize money:	$ 1,233,615
singles
Career record:	246: 225
Career title:	2
Highest ranking:	24 (May 12 1986)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	306: 163
Career title:	23
Highest ranking:	1 (June 8 1981)
Weeks as No. 1:	3
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Paul McNamee (born November 12, 1954 in Melbourne ) is a retired Australian tennis player .

Career

The doubles specialist won a total of 23 doubles titles in his career (mostly with his doubles partner Peter McNamara ), including two at Wimbledon (1980, 1982) and two at the Australian Open . In 1981, he led the double world rankings for three weeks .

He won two singles titles; He reached his highest position in the individual world rankings with position 24. With the Australian team he won the Davis Cup in 1983 and 1986 .

Paul McNamee was one of the founders of the Hopman Cup , which he organized from 1988 to 2006.

Tournament victories

Legend (victories in brackets)

Grand Slam (5)

ATP World Championship / Tennis Masters Cup (1)

ATP Masters Series (1)

ATP International Series Gold (0)

ATP International Series (19)

singles

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	1980	Palm Harbor	Hard court	Stan Smith	6: 4, 6: 3
2.	1982	Baltimore	carpet	Guillermo Vilas	4: 6, 7: 5, 7: 5, 2: 6, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	1979	Nice	sand	Peter McNamara	Pavel Složil Tomáš Šmíd	6: 1, 3: 6, 6: 2
2.	1979	Cairo	sand	Peter McNamara	Anand Amritraj Vijay Amritraj	7: 5, 6: 4
3.	1979	Palermo	sand	Peter McNamara	Ismail El Shafei John Feaver	7: 5, 7: 6
4th	1979	Sydney (1)	race	Peter McNamara	Steve Docherty Christopher Lewis	7: 6, 6: 3
5.	1979	Australian Open (1)	race	Peter McNamara	Cliff Letcher Paul Kronk	7: 6, 6: 2
6th	1980	Palm Harbor	Hard court	Paul Kronk	Steve Docherty John James	6: 4, 7: 5
7th	1980	Houston (1)	sand	Peter McNamara	Marty Riessen Sherwood Stewart	6: 4, 6: 4
8th.	1980	Wimbledon (1)	race	Peter McNamara	Bob Lutz Stan Smith	7: 6, 6: 3, 6: 7, 6: 4
9.	1980	Stockholm	carpet	Heinz Günthardt	Bob Lutz Stan Smith	6: 7, 6: 3, 6: 2
10.	1980	Sydney (2)	race	Peter McNamara	Vitas Gerulaitis Brian Gottfried	6: 2, 6: 4
11.	1981	World Doubles WCT	carpet	Peter McNamara	Victor Amaya Hank Pfister	6: 3, 2: 6, 3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2
12.	1981	Stuttgart	sand	Peter McNamara	Mark Edmondson Mike Estep	2: 6, 6: 4, 7: 6
13.	1981	Sydney (3)	race	Peter McNamara	Hank Pfister John Sadri	6: 7, 7: 6, 7: 6
14th	1982	Monte Carlo	sand	Peter McNamara	Mark Edmondson Sherwood Stewart	6: 7, 7: 6, 6: 3
15th	1982	Bournemouth	sand	Buster Mottram	Henri Leconte Ilie Năstase	3: 6, 7: 6, 6: 3
16.	1982	Wimbledon (2)	race	Peter McNamara	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	6: 3, 6: 2
17th	1983	Memphis	carpet	Peter McNamara	Tim Gullikson Tom Gullikson	6: 3, 5: 7, 6: 4
18th	1983	Queen's Club (1)	race	Brian Gottfried	Kevin Curren Steve Denton	6: 4, 6: 3
19th	1983	Brisbane	carpet	Pat Cash	Mark Edmondson Kim Warwick	7: 6, 7: 6
20th	1983	Australian Open (2)	race	Mark Edmondson	Steve Denton Sherwood Stewart	6: 3, 7: 6
21st	1984	Houston (2)	sand	Pat Cash	David Dowlen Nduka Odizor	7: 5, 4: 6, 6: 3
22nd	1984	Aix-en-Provence	sand	Pat Cash	Chris Lewis Wally Masur	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
23.	1984	Queen's Club (2)	race	Pat Cash	Bernard Mitton Butch Walts	6: 4, 6: 3

Mixed

No.	date	competition	Topping	Partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 1985	Wimbledon	race	Martina Navrátilová	Elizabeth Smylie John Fitzgerald	7: 5, 4: 6, 6: 2

Web links

Commons : Paul McNamee  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• ATP profile of Paul McNamee (English)
• ITF Profile of Paul McNamee (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Paul McNamee (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter McNamara: 1955-2019