Allen Fox
Allen Fox (1965) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Country (sports) | United States | |||||||||||||||||
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| Residence | San Luis Obispo, California | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | June 25, 1939 Los Angeles, California | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | |||||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 1955 (amateur tour) | |||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1971 | |||||||||||||||||
| College | University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) | |||||||||||||||||
| Official website | AllenFoxTennis.com | |||||||||||||||||
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| French Open | 2R (1965, 1968) | |||||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | QF (1965) | |||||||||||||||||
| US Open | 4R (1960, 1961) | |||||||||||||||||
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Allen E. Fox (born June 25, 1939) is an American former tennis player in the 1960s and 1970s who went on to be a college coach and author. He was ranked as high as U.S. No. 4 in 1962, and was in the top ten in the U.S. five times between 1961 and 1968.
In 1960, he won the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) doubles title with Larry Nagler for the University of California at Los Angeles. In 1961, Fox won the NCAA singles title. In 1962 he won the US National Hard Court title. He won a gold medal in singles at the 1965 Maccabiah Games in Israel. At the 1969 Maccabiah Games he won gold medals in singles and doubles.
Fox was elected to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Hall of Fame, the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, the Southern California Tennis Association Hall of Fame, and the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.