About Cary Leeds
Lived 1957 – 2003 (aged 45). Cary Leeds was an American tennis player.
Laurence C. "Cary" Leeds III (April 16, 1957 – January 30, 2003) was an American professional tennis player.
Leeds was the son of New York City banker Larry Leeds and Tel Aviv-born Dalia Benary. A varsity tennis player while at Yale University, Leeds won a national indoor doubles title with Matt Doyle in 1977 and graduated in 1979 with a B.A.
Active on the professional tour in the 1980s, Leeds featured most prominently in doubles and made three Grand Prix finals. He was a mixed doubles semi-finalist at the 1981 Wimbledon Championships, partnering Sherry Acker.
The Cary Leeds Center in the South Bronx, New York is named in his honor, set up by his family as a way to memorialize him after his death in 2003. It was opened in 2015.
Grand Prix career finals Doubles: 3 (0–3)
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Who was Cary Leeds?
US tennis player
When was Cary Leeds born?
Cary Leeds was born on 16 April 1957 in New York City.
When did Cary Leeds die?
Cary Leeds died on 30 January 2003.
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Cary Leeds was a tennis player.
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Cary Leeds was American.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Cary Leeds. https://biography.guide/cary-leeds/
MLA: "Cary Leeds." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/cary-leeds/.
Chicago: "Cary Leeds." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/cary-leeds/.
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