Larry Nagler
Nagler in 1960 | ||||||||||||
| Country (sports) | United States | |||||||||||
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| Residence | Los Angeles, California, US | |||||||||||
| Born | July 1, 1940 Queens, New York, US | |||||||||||
| College | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | |||||||||||
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| Grand Slam singles results | ||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | 1R (1964) | |||||||||||
| US Open | 4R (1963) | |||||||||||
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| Grand Slam doubles results | ||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | 2R (1964) | |||||||||||
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Larry Nagler (born July 1, 1940) is an American former college and professional tennis player. In college, Nagler played on the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team for Hall of Fame coach John Wooden in 1958 and 1959. In tennis, he was the 1960 NCAA Tennis Singles Champion, and a 1960 NCAA Tennis Doubles Champion, with teammate Allen Fox. He also played doubles with Arthur Ashe, winning the 1962 Pennsylvania Lawn Tennis Championships. Nagler was a three-time Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) First-Team All-American (1960–62), and was the only player to ever win three Pac-10 men's singles titles (1960–62). In 1962 he was ranked 11th in the United States in singles. He played singles in the 1964 Wimbledon Championships and played doubles in the 1964 Wimbledon Championships with Allen Fox. At the 1977 Maccabiah Games in Israel, he and Steve Krulevitz won gold medals in doubles for the United States, and he won a silver medal in men's singles. Nagler was inducted into the ITA Hall of Fame and the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.