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Pat Cash (1965)

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Patrick Hart Pat Cash was born on May 27, 1965 in Melbourne, VIC, and Australia. He is a former professional right-handed tennis player from Australia and is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1987. His height is six feet and weighed 185 lbs. Cash continued to play on the circuit on-and-off through to the mid-1990s. But a series of injuries to his Achilles' tendon, knees and back meant that he was never really able to recapture his best form after his triumphant Wimbledon-winning year in 1987.

Cash first came to the tennis world's attention as a brilliant junior player in the early 1980s. He was ranked the top junior player in the world in 1981, and in 1982 he won the junior titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open. Cash turned professional in 1982 and won his first top-level singles title that year in Melbourne. In 1983, Cash became the youngest player to play in a Davis Cup final. In 1987, Cash reached his first Grand Slam singles final at the Australian Open, where he lost to Stefan Edberg.

The crowning moment of Cash's career came at Wimbledon in 1987. Having beaten Mats Wilander in the quarter-finals and Jimmy Connors in the semi-finals, Cash moved through to the final where he faced the world number 1 Ivan Lendl. Cash seized his moment and defeated Lendl in straight sets 7-6, 6-2 and 7-5. In 1988, Cash reached the Australian Open final for the second consecutive year and faced another Swede in the form of Mats Wilander. Cash lost to Mats in an epic five-set.

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