About Pekka Säilä
Lived 1941 – 2009 (aged 67). Pekka Säilä was a Finnish tennis player.
Pekka Säilä (20 December 1941 – 7 December 2009) was a tennis player from Finland.
Tennis career Säilä made his debut for the Finland Davis Cup team during the 1962 Europe Zone second round tie against Czechoslovakia. During his sixteen-year Davis Cup career, he played in twenty-three Davis Cup singles rubbers, seven of which he won, and he also played in thirteen doubles rubbers, with two wins.
During 1967, Säilä was recruited to attend college in the United States at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He played for the university tennis team and graduated in 1970.
Säilä participated at the Wimbledon Championships on two occasions, with a best result of reaching the third round in 1967, before losing to the British player, Roger Taylor.
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Who was Pekka Säilä?
Finnish tennis player (1941–2009)
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Pekka Säilä was born on 20 December 1941 in Helsinki.
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Pekka Säilä died on 7 December 2009 in Helsinki.
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Pekka Säilä was a tennis player.
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Pekka Säilä was Finnish.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Pekka Säilä. https://biography.guide/pekka-saila/
MLA: "Pekka Säilä." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/pekka-saila/.
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