Scott Davis is an American former professional tennis player and tennis coach. Winner of the Australian Open (1991) men's doubles, winner of 25 Grand Prix tournaments and the Professional Tennis Association in singles and doubles.
The famous tennis player Scott Davis was born on August 27, 1962 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Youth
From 15 to 20 years old, he remained the first racket in the youth ranking of the US Tennis Association. At the age of 17, before graduating from high school in the Los Angeles area of the Pacific Palisades, Scott Davis was invited by the captain of the US team, Tony Trabert, to the team for the Davis Cup match against Mexico. He went on court instead of John McEnroe in the last game of the match that did not decide anything and lost to an experienced opponent on clay courts in high altitude conditions.
Tennis career
After leaving school, the young tennis player was educated at Stanford University, where he played for the tennis team from 1981 to 1983. In 1981, playing in the rank of amateur, he reached the final at the open tournament of the Grand Prix series in Napa (California), and the next year - to the semifinals of the Grand Prix tournament in Cleveland and to the third round of the US Open. Prior to turning professional, Davis played tennis at Stanford University, where he led the 1983 NCAA Cardinal Team Championship. In 1983, Davis led the Stanford University squad to victory in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) team championship and moved to professional tennis that summer.
During the second half of 1983, Scott Davis managed to visit the finals of the Grand Prix singles tournaments three times (in Newport, Tokyo and Taipei) and win the title in Maui (Hawaii) in singles and in Columbus (Ohio) in doubles. At the end of the season, he was awarded the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) award in the Rookie of the Year category, going from 152nd to 24th in the ranking in six months.
The following year, Scott Davis reached the fourth round at the Wimbledon tournament. At the end of 1984 he became the quarter-finalist of the Australian Open.
Scott Davis reached the peak of his singles career in 1985, winning his second Grand Prix tournament in Tokyo and climbing to 11th place in the rankings. At the end of the season, he took part in the Masters tournament, the final competition of the year, to which only the world's leading players were invited. In 1985, Davis also won three doubles titles, two of which were shared by his compatriot David Pate.
from 1986 to 1990, he only made it to the Grand Prix finals three times, and more than four years passed between his second and third singles titles. In doubles in the second half of the 1980s, Davis regularly finished the season among the 50 best players in the world, and in 1987, paired with Pate, even made his way to the Masters tournament: in its end, they visited the quarterfinals of the US Open, and then in the tournament finals. in Paris and Frankfurt.
During 1989, Davis won three Grand Prix tournaments with three different partners, and after a quarter-final defeat at the Australian Open again paired with Pate. This cooperation was also successful this time: during the season, the Americans together reached the finals at the tournaments of the Association of Tennis Professionals six times and won five of them, including at the tournament in Paris. At the final tournament of the year, they defeated the strongest pair in the world Rick Leach-Jim Pugh in the group, having stumbled in the semifinals.
In 1991, Pat and Scott Davis continued their successful joint performances, winning in a row the Sydney tournament and the Australian Open in Melbourne at the start of the season. After that, Scott Davis reached the second position in the doubles rating of the Association of Tennis Professionals, and his partner at the same time took the first; at the Wimbledon tournament, they were seeded at number one, but they performed unsuccessfully there and in the second half of the season they let a particularly successful pair of John Fitzgerald-Anders Yarrid go ahead; it was Fitzgerald and Yarrid that they lost in the final of the US Open this year, and in the final tournament of the year they dropped out of the fight already at the group stage, losing all three of their meetings. In the interval between these two tournaments, Davis played for the second time in the Davis Cup with the USA national team. He and Peith lost their doubles match to rivals from the German team, but the US team won the match and advanced to the final, where Scott Davis was no longer invited.
The collaboration with Peith continued in 1992, but did not bring a single title; the best results of the American pair were the semifinals at the Australian Open and the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. After that, Scott Davis changed partners quite often, but with none of them he no longer showed such results as with Pate. He completed appearances in 1998, winning a total of 3 singles and 22 doubles titles in his career - more than half of them paired with Pate.
As a result, Scott Davis's junior tennis career earned him 25 championship titles in different age categories, which is a great contribution to the history of American sports.
Nowadays
Since retiring from the tour in 1998, Scott Davis has been active on the 35+ tour and as a private tennis coach. After the end of his professional playing career, Scott Davis lives in California and actively participates in veteran competitions, including paired with his father Gordon, with whom he won the title of US champions almost every year in the first decade of the 21st century. He headed the Newport Beachan Tennis Club.
Personal life
Davis was married to Susie Jaeger in 1984, who also played for the Cardinal.
