Doug Burke

Douglas Burke (born 25 July 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Jamaica.

Career Burke was the Canadian Junior Champion in both the Under-18s and Under-21 categories.

The Jamaican born player competed in collegiate tennis for Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in the early 1980s and was an NCAA All-American on five occasions, for singles in 1981 and for both singles and doubles in 1982 and 1983. He and Ken Flach were the 1982 NCAA Division II doubles champions.

In 1988, at New York's OTB Open, Burke became the first Jamaican to reach a quarter-final on the Grand Prix tennis circuit. He had wins over Jim Gurfein and Martin Blackman, before falling in the quarter-finals to Pete Sampras.

Coaching Burke was the director of Tennis Jamaica from 1994 to 2011. Doug Burke joined ACE, a high performance tennis development program in Burlington, Ontario as Tennis Director in August 2011. He was recently named President.