Paul McNamee
McNamee playing tennis in 2007 |
| Full name |
Paul McNamee |
| Country |
Australia |
| Residence |
Australia |
| Born |
12 November 1954 (1954-11-12) (age 56)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Height |
1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| College |
Monash University |
| Turned pro |
1973 |
| Retired |
1988 |
| Plays |
Right-handed |
| Career prize money |
$1,233,615 |
| Singles |
| Career record |
246–225 |
| Career titles |
2 |
| Highest ranking |
No. 24 (12 May 1986) |
| Grand Slam results |
| Australian Open |
SF (1982) |
| Australian Open Junior |
W (1973) |
| French Open |
4R (1980) |
| Wimbledon |
4R (1982) |
| US Open |
2R (1979, 1983, 1984, 1986) |
| Doubles |
| Career record |
306–163 |
| Career titles |
24 |
| Highest ranking |
No. 1 (8 June 1981) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results |
| Australian Open |
W (1979, 1983) |
| French Open |
SF (1986) |
| Wimbledon |
W (1980, 1982) |
| US Open |
SF (1980) |
| Other Doubles tournaments |
| Tour Finals |
RU (1980) |
| Mixed Doubles |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results |
| Wimbledon |
W (1985) |
| Last updated on: N/A. |
Paul McNamee (born 12 November 1954, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a retired Australian tennis player and prominent sports administrator.
Tennis career
McNamee won two singles and twenty-four doubles titles during his professional career. A right-hander, he reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 12 May 1986 when he became the world number 24. McNamee reached his highest doubles ATP-ranking on 8 June 1981 when he became the world number 1. McNamee won 24 men's doubles titles including four Grand Slam doubles titles in his career. He won the 1979 Australian Open and the 1980 and 1982 Wimbledon Championships with Peter McNamara and the 1983 Australian Open with Mark Edmondson. When John McEnroe won Wimbledon in 1984, McNamee was the only player to take a set off McEnroe throughout the entire championship when he won the third set of their first round match.
McNamee was also a member of the Australian Davis Cup Team which won the Davis Cup in 1983 and 1986.
In 1987, McNamee became Melbourne's last officially crowned King of Moomba, subsequently a Moomba Monarch was selected (male Monarchs were popularly, but unofficially, still called King of Moomba).
Sports administrator
McNamee played a key role in the founding of the Hopman Cup international tennis tournament in 1988. He served as Tournament Director of the Hopman Cup and CEO of the Australian Open until 2006.
From 2006 to 2008 he was the Tournament Director of the Australian Golf Open. He also served as the CEO of the Melbourne Football Club from March to July 2008.
In late 2008, it was revealed that McNamee has joined the push for Australia to field a cycling team at the Tour de France – with support from Cadel Evans as a consultant for Australian Road Cycling, a Melbourne-based consortium.
ATP Tour
Singles titles (2)
| No. |
Date |
Tournament |
Surface |
Opponent in the final |
Score |
| 1. |
1980 |
Palm Harbor, U.S. |
Hard |
 Stan Smith |
6–4, 6–3 |
| 2. |
1982 |
Baltimore WCT, U.S. |
Carpet |
 Guillermo Vilas |
4–6, 7–5, 7–5, 2–6, 6–3 |
Singles runner-ups (5)
| No. |
Date |
Tournament |
Surface |
Opponent in the final |
Score |
| 1. |
1980 |
Palermo, Italy |
Clay |
Guillermo Vilas |
6–4, 6–0, 6–0 |
| 2. |
1983 |
Houston WCT, U.S. |
Clay |
 Ivan Lendl |
6–2, 6–0, 6–3 |
| 3. |
1983 |
Brisbane, Australia |
Carpet |
 Pat Cash |
4–6, 6–4, 6–3 |
| 4. |
1986 |
Nice, France |
Clay |
 Emilio Sánchez |
6–1, 6–3 |
| 5. |
1986 |
St. Vincent, Italy |
Clay |
 Simone Colombo |
2–6, 6–3, 7–6 |
Doubles titles (23)
| No. |
Date |
Tournament |
Surface |
Partnering |
Opponent in the final |
Score |
| 1. |
1979 |
Nice, France |
Clay |
Peter McNamara |
Pavel Složil
Tomáš Šmíd |
6–1, 3–6, 6–2 |
| 2. |
1979 |
Cairo, Egypt |
Clay |
Peter McNamara |
 Anand Amritraj
Vijay Amritraj |
7–5, 6–4 |
| 3. |
1979 |
Palermo, Italy |
Clay |
Peter McNamara |
 Ismail El Shafei
 John Feaver |
7–5, 7–6 |
| 4. |
1979 |
Sydney Outdoor, Australia |
Grass |
Peter McNamara |
Steve Docherty
John Chris Lewis |
7–6, 6–3 |
| 5. |
1979 |
Australian Open, Melbourne |
Grass |
Peter McNamara |
Cliff Letcher
Paul Kronk |
7–6, 6–2 |
| 6. |
1980 |
Palm Harbor, U.S. |
Hard |
Paul Kronk |
Steve Docherty
John James |
6–4, 7–5 |
| 7. |
1980 |
Houston, U.S. |
Clay |
Peter McNamara |
Marty Riessen
Sherwood Stewart |
6–4, 6–4 |
| 8. |
1980 |
Wimbledon, London |
Grass |
Peter McNamara |
Robert Lutz
Stan Smith |
7–6, 6–3, 6–7, 6–4 |
| 9. |
1980 |
Stockholm, Sweden |
Carpet |
 Heinz Günthardt |
Robert Lutz
Stan Smith |
6–7, 6–3, 6–2 |
| 10. |
1980 |
Sydney Outdoor, Australia |
Grass |
Peter McNamara |
Vitas Gerulaitis
Brian Gottfried |
6–2, 6–4 |
| 11. |
1981 |
Masters Doubles WCT, London |
Carpet |
Peter McNamara |
Victor Amaya
Hank Pfister |
6–3, 2–6, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2 |
| 12. |
1981 |
Stuttgart Outdoor, Germany |
Clay |
Peter McNamara |
Mark Edmondson
Mike Estep |
2–6, 6–4, 7–6 |
| 13. |
1981 |
Sydney Outdoor, Australia |
Grass |
Peter McNamara |
Hank Pfister
John Sadri |
6–7, 7–6, 7–6 |
| 14. |
1982 |
Monte Carlo, Monaco |
Clay |
Peter McNamara |
Mark Edmondson
Sherwood Stewart |
6–7, 7–6, 6–3 |
| 15. |
1982 |
Bournemouth, England |
Clay |
Buster Mottram |
 Henri Leconte
 Ilie Năstase |
3–6, 7–6, 6–3 |
| 16. |
1982 |
Wimbledon, London |
Grass |
Peter McNamara |
Peter Fleming
John McEnroe |
6–3, 6–2 |
| 17. |
1983 |
Memphis, U.S. |
Carpet |
Peter McNamara |
Tim Gullikson
Tom Gullikson |
6–3, 5–7, 6–4 |
| 18. |
1983 |
London/Queen's Club, England |
Grass |
Brian Gottfried |
 Kevin Curren
Steve Denton |
6–4, 6–3 |
| 19. |
1983 |
Brisbane, Australia |
Carpet |
Pat Cash |
Mark Edmondson
Kim Warwick |
7–6, 7–6 |
| 20. |
1983 |
Australian Open, Melbourne |
Grass |
Mark Edmondson |
Steve Denton
Sherwood Stewart |
6–3, 7–6 |
| 21. |
1984 |
Houston, U.S. |
Clay |
Pat Cash |
David Dowlen
 Nduka Odizor |
7–5, 4–6, 6–3 |
| 22. |
1984 |
Aix-en-Provence, France |
Clay |
Pat Cash |
 Chris Lewis
Wally Masur |
4–6, 6–3, 6–4 |
| 23. |
1984 |
London/Queen's Club, England |
Grass |
Pat Cash |
Bernard Mitton
Butch Walts |
6–4, 6–3 |
Doubles runner-ups (15)
| No. |
Date |
Tournament |
Surface |
Partnering |
Opponent in the final |
Score |
| 1. |
1977 |
Santiago, Chile |
Clay |
Henry Bunis |
 Patricio Cornejo
Jaime Fillol |
5–7, 6–1, 6–1 |
| 2. |
1980 |
Forest Hills WCT, U.S. |
Clay |
Peter McNamara |
Peter Fleming
John McEnroe |
6–2, 5–7, 6–2 |
| 3. |
1980 |
London/Queen's Club, England |
Grass |
Sherwood Stewart |
Rod Frawley
Geoff Masters |
6–2, 4–6, 11–9 |
| 4. |
1980 |
Bologna, Italy |
Carpet |
Steve Denton |
 Balázs Taróczy
Butch Walts |
2–6, 6–3, 6–0 |
| 5. |
1980 |
Johannesburg, South Africa |
Hard |
Heinz Günthardt |
Robert Lutz
Stan Smith |
6–7, 6–3, 6–4 |
| 6. |
1980 |
Australian Open, Melbourne |
Grass |
Peter McNamara |
Mark Edmondson
Kim Warwick |
7–5, 6–4 |
| 7. |
1981 |
Hamburg, Germany |
Clay |
Peter McNamara |
Hans Gildemeister
 Andrés Gómez |
6–4, 3–6, 6–4 |
| 8. |
1982 |
Nice, France |
Clay |
Balázs Taróczy |
Henri Leconte
Yannick Noah |
5–7, 6–4, 6–3 |
| 9. |
1983 |
Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Clay |
Ferdi Taygan |
Mark Dickson
 Cassio Motta |
6–2, 1–6, 6–4 |
| 10. |
1984 |
Wimbledon, London |
Grass |
Pat Cash |
Peter Fleming
John McEnroe |
6–2, 5–7, 6–2, 3–6, 6–3 |
| 11. |
1984 |
Hong Kong |
Hard |
Mark Edmondson |
Ken Flach
Robert Seguso |
6–7, 6–3, 7–5 |
| 12. |
1985 |
Rotterdam, Netherlands |
Carpet |
Vitas Gerulaitis |
Pavel Složil
Tomáš Šmíd |
6–4, 6–4 |
| 13. |
1985 |
Boston, U.S. |
Clay |
Peter McNamara |
 Libor Pimek
 Slobodan Živojinović |
2–6, 6–4, 7–6 |
| 14. |
1986 |
Fort Myers, U.S. |
Hard |
Peter Doohan |
Andrés Gómez
Ivan Lendl |
7–5, 6–4 |
| 15. |
1986 |
Sydney Indoor, Australia |
Hard (i) |
Peter McNamara |
 Boris Becker
John Fitzgerald |
6–4, 7–6 |
- ^ Craig Bellamy, Gordon Chisholm, Hilary Eriksen (17 Feb 2006) Moomba: A festival for the people.: http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/rsrc/PDFs/Moomba/History%20of%20Moomba.pdf PDF pp 17–22
- ^ AAP (2008). McNamee dumped as Demons CEO. Retrieved 23 July 2008.
- ^ Cadel, McNamee support push for Australian Tour de France team Article.
| Australian Open boys' singles champions |
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1969 Allan McDonald • 1970 John Alexander • 1971 Cliff Letcher • 1972 Paul Kronk • 1973 Paul McNamee • 1974 Harry Brittain • 1975 Brad Drewett • 1976 Ray Kelly • 1977 (Jan) Brad Drewett • 1977 (Dec) Ray Kelly • 1978 Pat Serret • 1979 Greg Whitecross • 1980 Craig Miller • 1981 Jorgen Windahl • 1982 Mark Kratzmann • 1983 Stefan Edberg • 1984 Mark Kratzmann • 1985 Shane Barr • 1987 Jason Stoltenberg • 1988 Johan Anderson • 1989 Nicklas Kulti • 1990 Dirk Dier • 1991 Thomas Enqvist • 1992 Grant Doyle • 1993 James Baily • 1994 Ben Ellwood • 1995 Nicolas Kiefer • 1996 Björn Rehnquist • 1997 Daniel Elsner • 1998 Julien Jeanpierre • 1999 Kristian Pless • 2000 Andy Roddick • 2001 Janko Tipsarević • 2002 Clement Morel • 2003 Marcos Baghdatis • 2004 Gaël Monfils • 2005 Donald Young • 2006 Alexandre Sidorenko • 2007 Brydan Klein • 2008 Bernard Tomic • 2009 Yuki Bhambri • 2010 Tiago Fernandes • 2011 Jiří Veselý
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| Persondata |
| Name |
Macnamee, Paul |
| Alternative names |
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| Short description |
Tennis player |
| Date of birth |
1954-11-12 |
| Place of birth |
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Date of death |
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