Alejandro "Alex" Olmedo Rodriguez was a tennis player from Peru with American citizenship.
11 Facts About Alex Olmedo
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Alex Olmedo was listed by the USTA as a "foreign" player for 1958, but as a US player for 1959.
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Alex Olmedo helped win the Davis Cup for the United States in 1958 and was the No 2 ranked amateur in 1959.
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Alex Olmedo was ranked as the world No 2 in 1959 by Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph.
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Alex Olmedo's teammates were Ham Richardson and Barry MacKay, when they won the Cup in 1958.
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Alex Olmedo won the Australian Championships and the Wimbledon singles titles in 1959 and was the runner-up at the 1959 US Championships, losing to Neale Fraser, whom he defeated in the Australian Championships earlier that year.
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Alex Olmedo turned professional in 1960, and that year, won the US Pro title by beating Tony Trabert in the final.
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Alex Olmedo was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987.
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Alex Olmedo spent over 40 years teaching tennis at the Beverly Hills Hotel in California.
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Alex Olmedo's clients included Katharine Hepburn, Robert Duvall, and Jon Lovitz.
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Alex Olmedo died on December 9,2020 at the age of 84 from cancer in Los Angeles.