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Home > Tennis > Tennis Players > Ashley Cooper (1936)
Ashley Cooper (1936)
Tennis is an outdoor sport which can be played between two players or four players. Players utilize a stringed racquet to hit a rubber ball, hollow inside covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. In some places tennis is referred to as lawn tennis. This game started in England and was the most popular amongst the upper class of society. Presently tennis is an Olympic sport, as well as, it is played in various tournaments including the four Grand Slams in many countries, by people of all ages and classes.
There are three different court surfaces it is played on namely, clay court, grass court and hard court. Depending on the surface, each one provides a different movement of speed and bounce for the ball, which in turn affects the level of play of individual players.
Ashley John Cooper was born on 15th September, 1936 in Melbourne, Victoria and is former tennis player from Australia. He was world’s amateur in the late 1950s. 1958 was Cooper's big year where he became one of only ten men to date 2005 to win three of the four major events in the same year. He won singles at the Australian, British, and American championships and was a semi-finalist at the French championship, losing to Luis Ayala 11-9, 6-4, 4-6, 2-6 and 5-7.
The right-handed Cooper was the top-ranked player in both 1957, when he was a Wimbledon and Forest Hills finalist and Paris semi-finalist. Cooper was an Australian Davis Cup player as the team won the cup from '56 and '57 and was finalists in '58. He turned professional in 1959.
He won the Australian Championship in 1957 by defeating Neal Fraser 6-3, 9-11, 6-4 and 6-2 and in 1958 by defeating Malcolm Anderson 7-5, 6-3 and 6-4. He won Wimbledon championship in 1958 by defeating Neal Fraser 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 and 13-11 and he also won United States Championship in 1958 by defeating Malcolm Anderson 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 10-8 and 8-6. He was runners up in Wimbledon and United States championship in 1957.
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