Geoff Pollard
| Full name | Geoffrey Neil Pollard |
|---|---|
| Country (sports) | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia |
| Born | 18 January 1944 Sydney, NSW, Australia |
| Plays | Left-handed |
| Singles | |
| Career record | {{#property:P564}} |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | 3R (1968) |
| Wimbledon | Q1 (1975) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | {{#property:P555}} |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (1968, 1971) |
| Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 1R (1968) |
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Geoffrey Neil Pollard, AM (born 18 January 1944) is an Australian sports administrator and former professional tennis player. He was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in the 1989 Australia Day Honours list.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]A left-handed player from Sydney, Pollard was active as a player in the 1960s and 1970s. He lost to John Newcombe in the junior singles final of the 1961 Australian Championships and earned selection on Australia's Junior Davis Cup team. In 1962 he was runner-up to Tony Roche in the 18s and under Orange Bowl tournament.[2]
Pollard, a University of Sydney science graduate, partnered with Kaye Dening to win a mixed doubles gold medal at the 1967 Summer Universiade in Tokyo. He won through to the singles third round of the 1968 Australian Championships, where he was eliminated by the fifth-seed Barry Phillips-Moore.[3]
During the 1980s, Pollard served as President of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association and was on the Board of Directors for the Australian Institute of Sport. He was also a senior lecturer in statistics at Macquarie University.[4]
From 1989 to 2010 he was President of Tennis Australia.[5]
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External links
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- 1944 births
- Living people
- Australian male tennis players
- Australian sports executives and administrators
- Tennis executives
- University of Sydney alumni
- Academic staff of Macquarie University
- Tennis players from Sydney
- Members of the Order of Australia
- Summer World University Games medalists in tennis
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Australia
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Australia
- Medalists at the 1967 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1970 Summer Universiade
- Sportsmen from New South Wales
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen