Barry Phillips-Moore

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Barry Phillips-Moore
Barry Phillips-Moore 1970.jpg
Country (sports)Australian
Born(1938-06-09)9 June 1938
Adelaide, Australia
Died29 June 2023(2023-06-29) (aged 85)
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Turned pro1968 (amateur tour from 1954)
Retired1980
PlaysLeft-handed (one-handed backhand)
Singles
Career record639-429
Career titles48
Highest rankingNo. 20 (10 June 1968)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open SF (1961, 1968)
French Open 4R (1961, 1962)
Wimbledon 3R (1972)
US Open 2R (1973, 1976)
Doubles
Career record76–171 (Open era)
Career titles1 (Open era)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open QF (1956, 1957, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1974)
French Open QF (1972)
Wimbledon 3R (1961, 1971)
US Open 3R (1974)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open QF (1957, 1963, 1968)
Wimbledon 2R (1971)

Barry Phillips-Moore (9 June 1938 – 29 June 2023) was an Australian tennis player of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

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In singles, Phillips-Moore twice reached the semifinals of the Australian Championships, in 1961 and 1968. In doubles, he was a quarterfinalist at Australian Championships / Australian Open eight times and the French Open once, in 1972.

Phillips-Moore won the 1968 ATP Auckland Open defeating Onny Parun in a five-set final.

Phillips-Moore won the 1971 ATP Stuttgart Open defeating István Gulyás in the final.

Phillips-Moore died on 29 June 2023, at the age of 85. [1]

Career singles titles

No.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponent in the finalScore
1.4 February 1968 Auckland, New Zealand. Flag of New Zealand.svg Onny Parun 6–3, 6–8, 1–6, 6–3, 6–2
2.20 July 1969Montana-Vermala, Switzerland Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Štěpán Koudelka 6–1, 6–2, 7–5

Open era finals (2)

Doubles champion (1)

No.DateTournamentSurfacePartneringOpponents in the finalScore
1.3 February 1975 Little Rock, United StatesCarpet Flag of Mexico.svg Marcello Lara Flag of the United States.svg Jeff Austin
Flag of the United States.svg Charles Owens
6–4, 6–3

Singles finalist (1)

No.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponent in the finalScore
1.28 July 1974 Hilversum, NetherlandsClay Flag of Argentina.svg Guillermo Vilas 6–4, 6–2, 1–6, 6–3

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References

  1. "Vale Barry Phillips-Moore". tennis.com.au. 4 July 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2023.