Tom Gorman is a talented tennis player who was born in America on January 19, 1946. From the 1960s to the 1980s, he competed in both amateur competitions and major championships. Became best known for taking 8th place in the top ten tennis players of 1973.
Sports career
Tom attended Seattle Preparatory School, and received further education from Seattle University. He toured professionally in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and was the Washington State Tennis Champion for three consecutive years. For eight years, Gorman served as captain of the USA Davis Cup team, coaching some of America's greatest players and winning world championships in the 90s and 92s.
Gorman was ranked first in the world ranking No. 8 (May 3, 1973), and in the SPS-10 rating (June 3, 1974) - 2nd place. This made him famous not only in America, but all over the world.
Tom Gorman has won seven singles in his career, the largest in 1975 in Cincinnati. He also won nine doubles titles, including Paris in 1971, and reached the final of the French Open that same year with Stan Smith. Tom defeated Bjorn Borg to qualify for the 1973 Stockholm Championship.
Tom reached the singles semifinals at Wimbledon (1971), the US Open (1972) and the French Open (1973); defeating Rod Laver, Jimmy Connors, and Ian Kodes. Gorman was a member of the team that won the US Davis Cup in 1972. As captain / coach, he led the USA Davis Cup team to victory in 1990 and 1992. Gorman holds the record for most wins in a US Davis Cup captain and is the most recent American to win the Davis Cup as both player and captain.
Gorman received praise for his athletic performance and prowess during the 1972 semi-finals against Stan Smith in Barcelona. He injured his back, but managed to recover by the date of his performance and won the match by a wide margin.
Management activities
He led the American Dream Teams of tennis champions Andre Agassi, Michael Chang, Jim Courier, John McEnroe and Pete Sampras, faced with the unenviable task of dealing with environment and ego.
Tom has been appointed coach of the US men's Olympic tennis team in Seoul, South Korea and Barcelona, Spain. He led the American doubles team of Ken Flach and Robert Seguzo to the gold medal in the 1988 Seoul doubles competition. In 2001, Tom and his partner Jaime Fillol from Chile won the Super Masters Seniors at the US Open.
In November 2008, Gorman was named Tennis Director at La Quinta Resort & Club and PGA WEST (TM), which Tom, along with other top American players including Arthur Ash, Stan Smith and Charlie Pasarella, helped organize in La Quinta, California. he left La Quinta in September 2015.
Tom was made one of the main judges on the prestigious Davis Cup committee of the International Tennis Federation of seven people for a two-year term in 2012-14.
This is where the main points of his biography end. Now Tom Gorman, at the age of 73, has retired and lives in California.
