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Joel Bailey (tennis)
American tennis player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Joel Bailey (born April 25, 1951) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.
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Biography
Bailey was born in Florida but based in Memphis, Tennessee. An All-American varsity tennis player at Samford University, Bailey began competing internationally in the late 1970s.
He won a Grand Prix doubles title in Lagos, Nigeria with Bruce Kleege in 1979.[1]
In singles, he had his first big match win at Sarasota in 1980 when he saved triple match points to upset Steve Krulevitz, from a set and 2–5 down.[2] He had only entered the tournament as a wild card, which was awarded as he was the son of Mack Bailey, who owned the company that sponsored the tournament.[3] At the Tulsa that year he made the quarter-finals, his best performance in a Grand Prix tournament. He competed in the main draw of the 1981 Wimbledon Championships and had a two set lead over Kevin Curren in their first round encounter, but lost in five.[4]
From the 1980s he lived in Japan and appeared in many tournaments in that country, as well as earning a living teaching tennis.[5] He twice won the doubles title at the ATP Challenger event in Nagoya.
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Grand Prix career finals
Doubles: 1 (1–0)
Challenger titles
Doubles: (3)
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