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Matt Mitchell

Matt Mitchell was an American professional tennis player from 1979 to 1987 who had success on the junior circuit. He won several national junior titles and was recruited to Stanford University, where he became a three-time All-American. At Stanford, he helped the team win the 1977 NCAA National Team Championships and won the singles title that year. As a professional, Mitchell had his greatest success in doubles, winning seven tournaments and achieving a highest ranking of 30th in the world in doubles.

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Matt Mitchell

Matt Mitchell was an American professional tennis player from 1979 to 1987 who had success on the junior circuit. He won several national junior titles and was recruited to Stanford University, where he became a three-time All-American. At Stanford, he helped the team win the 1977 NCAA National Team Championships and won the singles title that year. As a professional, Mitchell had his greatest success in doubles, winning seven tournaments and achieving a highest ranking of 30th in the world in doubles.

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Ma Mitchell (tennis)

Matt Mitchell (born 16 March 1957) is a former American professional tennis player


who played from 1979 to 1987.

Mitchell, who was born in Berkeley, California, was the number one player in the last
year of his age group from the 10s through the 16s. Mitchell holds four National Junior
Titles: National Hardcourt Championships in Burlingame, California, in the 12-and-
under Doubles with Jeff Robinson at the Peninsula Tennis Club; National Hardcourt
Championships in Burlingame, California, in the 14-and-under Singles where he
defeated Southern California's Perry Wright in the finals after upsetting Howard
Schoenfield in the semifinals; National Hardcourt Championships in Burlingame,
California at the Peninsula Tennis Club in the 16-and-under Singles, where he defeated
Southern California's Walter Redondo; and, the National Hardcourt Championships in
Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the 16-and-under Doubles with Nial Brash.[1]

In 1974, Mitchell was recruited by Coach Dick Gould of Stanford University, where


Mitchell signed his letter of intent in 1975. At Stanford University, MItchell became a 3-
time All-American, where he achieved his first All-American honors when he beat the
two-sport All-American John Lucas from the University of Maryland in the round of 32
at the NCAA Championships in Corpus Christi, Texas.[1]

In 1977, Mitchell helped win the "NCAA National Team Championships" where each
team sent their best six singles players and best three doubles teams to compete in a
single-elimination tournament.[2] After Stanford University won the National Team
Championships, Mitchell, who was seeded first in the singles event, beat John
Bennett of Brigham Young University, John Austin of UCLA, Ben McKown of Trinity
College, Bruce Nichols of UCLA, Chris Lewis of USC, and in the final, Tony Graham of
UCLA in the best of five set final to win the NCAA Singles Title.[1]

In 1979 Mitchell, in his first year as a professional player, was nominated as Rookie of
the Year after he was ranked the second highest rookie, behind Vince Van
Patten.[citation needed] Mitchell's greatest success in singles came at the Black and Decker
Championships, in Melbourne, Australia in 1984, where he beat Eliot Teltscherwho was
eighth in the world, and Pat Cash who was tenth in the world to win the
tournament.[3] That single event catapulted Mitchell's ranking from 164 in the world to
63.[4]

Mitchell's greatest success as a professional came as a doubles player, winning seven


tournaments in doubles between 1980 and 1985.[5] These included the 1984 ATP
Player's Championships in Cincinnati, Ohio with Francisco Gonzalez, and, while
partnering with Kevin Curren former All-American from University of Texas at Austin in
1986, they lost in the semifinals of the US Open Championships to Mats
Wilander and Joakim Nyström of Sweden in a five-set match, 7-6 in the
fifth.[6] Mitchell's highest doubles ranking as a professional was 30 in the world.

In 1981, Mitchell was inducted into Stanford University Athletic Hall of Fame.[7]

In 2006, Mitchell was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Men's
Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame.[8]

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