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Jim Pugh

b. 1964

American tennis player

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Born 1964. Jim Pugh is an American tennis player.

Jim Pugh (born February 5, 1964) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He grew up in Palos Verdes, California and at age 10 began taking tennis lessons from John Hillebrand. He played tennis at UCLA. He became a doubles specialist on the ATP Tour and won three Grand Slam men's doubles titles (two Australian Open, one Wimbledon) and five Grand Slam mixed doubles titles (three Australian Open, one Wimbledon, one US Open). Pugh reached the world No. 1 doubles ranking in 1989.

Career Pugh was a member of the U.S. team that won the Davis Cup in 1990. Partnering with Rick Leach, he won the doubles rubbers in all four of the rounds which the U.S. played in that year and clinched the team's victory in the final with a win over Pat Cash and John Fitzgerald of Australia. Pugh has a 6–0 career record in Davis Cup play.

Pugh won 27 doubles titles (22 men's doubles and 5 mixed doubles). He also won one top-level singles title at Newport, Rhode Island in 1989, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 37 in 1987. Pugh won his last career doubles title at Los Angeles in 1992. Pugh was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Hall of Fame in 2008.

ATP career finals

Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups) LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP Masters 1000 (0–0)ATP 500 Series (0–0)ATP 250 Series (1–3)Finals by surfaceHard (0–2)Clay (0–0)Grass (1–0)Carpet (0–1)Finals by settingOutdoors (1–3)Indoors (0–0)

Doubles: 37 (22 titles, 15 runner-ups) LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (3–3)ATP World Tour Finals (1–0)ATP Masters 1000 (2–2)ATP Championship Series (2–1)ATP Grand Prix (14–9)Finals by surfaceHard (13–0)Clay (4–0)Grass (1–0)Carpet (4–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (0–0)Indoors (0–0)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 2 (0–2) LegendATP Challenger (0–2)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–2)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Doubles: 6 (4–2) LegendATP Challenger (4–2)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (2–1)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–1)

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Mixed doubles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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American tennis player

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Jim Pugh was born on 5 February 1964 in Burbank.

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Jim Pugh is a tennis player.

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· Wikidata: Q676602

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