Colin Stubs was an Australian tennis promoter and professional player.
21 Facts About Colin Stubs
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Colin Stubs served as the tournament director of the Australian Open from 1978 to 1994.
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Colin Stubs won the under-19 Victorian Championships when he was 16 years old.
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Colin Stubs then studied pharmacy for four years and received a degree.
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Colin Stubs later reached the second round of the Australian Championships the following year, while he was still in university.
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Colin Stubs eventually competed on the international circuit after completing his studies, taking a three-week journey by ship to the French Riviera.
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Colin Stubs reached the second round of the Australian Championships again in 1966 and 1968, while making the second round at the 1967 and 1968 French Open tournaments.
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Colin Stubs lost in the second round of the 1968 US Open after receiving a bye in his only appearance at that major.
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Colin Stubs had an upset win in 1968 over future Tennis Hall of Famer Dennis Ralston, before retiring from the tour that year to work as a pharmacist.
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Colin Stubs consequently established an office in his pharmacy and spent four years "talking to international tennis players on the phone and dispensing headache pills" to the public.
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Colin Stubs became the Australian Open tournament director after selling his pharmacy in 1978.
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Colin Stubs was instrumental in changing the venue of tournament from the grass courts at Kooyong Stadium to hard courts at Melbourne Park in 1988.
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Colin Stubs's contract was not renewed by Tennis Australia for the 1995 edition, and he was succeeded as tournament director by Paul McNamee.
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Colin Stubs ran the Kooyong Classic from its foundation in 1987, and later became tournament director of the Dubai Tennis Championships during the mid-1990s and the Australian Hard Court Championships in Adelaide until 2003.
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Colin Stubs's company sold the AAMI Classic to IMG in 2013.
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Colin Stubs was credited with assisting Johan Anderson, Richard Fromberg, Jason Stoltenberg, and Todd Woodbridge during the early years of their professional careers.
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Woodbridge recounted how Colin Stubs helped bring in his first sponsorship deals and gave young players the chance to play against higher-ranked professionals.
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Colin Stubs married Susan Hosking in 1968 and they had 2 sons, David and Richard.
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Sadly, in September, 2019 Richard Colin Stubs lost his battle with cancer, leaving his wife Helen, and 3 children, Madeleine, Samuel and Harrison.
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Colin Stubs later married Sue Kreymborg and they had 2 children, Tom and Georgia.
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Colin Stubs was 81, and suffered from pancreatic cancer prior to his death.