Tony Pickard

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Tony Pickard
Full nameJ.A. Pickard
Country (sports)Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Born (1934-09-13) 13 September 1934 (age 88)
Singles
Career record254-187
Career titles19
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open 1R (1954)
French Open 3R (1958, 1962, 1963)
Wimbledon 3R (1961, 1963, 1964)
US Open 2R (1959)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open QF (1954) [1]
Wimbledon QF (1961) [2]
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open 1R (1954) [1]
Wimbledon 3R (1956, 1962) [2]

Tony Pickard (born 13 September 1934) is a British former tennis player turned coach. He is best known as the longtime coach of former world No. 1 Stefan Edberg.

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Career

Pickard won the 1959 Newport Casino Invitational tournament on grass with long best-of-five sets match wins against Noel Brown, Donald Dell, and Ron Holmberg in the final.

Pickard won the 1961 British Covered Court Championships in London defeating Manuel Santana in the final. He also won the 1962 London Hard Court Championships on clay at The Hurlingham Club defeating Roger Becker and Warren Jacques in the last two rounds.

Pickard captained the Great Britain Davis Cup team led by Tim Henman, and was Greg Rusedski's coach in 1997-98. [3] Has also coached Anne Keothavong [4]

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