The atmosphere was just phenomenal,” he said. My favorite Grand Slam was the Wimbledon Championships. I enjoyed playing the people that I looked up to growing up that was still on tour. “I developed new friendships with people from the United states that were on tour and from other countries also. He was also ranked number 13 for doubles around the same time. While on the professional tour for tennis, he was ranked number 8 in 1977. “I wasn’t very good at baseball, but I was way better at tennis,” he said. He also played baseball, and he enjoyed it very much, but tennis came more natural to Stockton. He picked up the game of tennis very quickly, and he enjoyed playing the sport.
He had an older brother who was 11 at the time who would play tennis, and his mother would help feed balls to Stockton. Stockton began playing tennis at the age of 6. He is currently the head coach for the men’s tennis team at Piedmont College. Stockton graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and he was the coach at the University of Virginia from 1998 to 2001. 18, 1951, he was on the professional tour from 1971, and he retired in 1986.
Stockton said, “the thing I love about tennis is that you can play it any age.” He said you do not see others playing lacrosse or soccer at the age of 70.īorn in New York on Feb. From a professional career to coaching at the college level, tennis is life for Richard “Dick” Stockton.
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