Full name Grover Reid Career record 44–84 Australian Open 3R (1975) Turned pro 1972 Highest ranking No. | Country (sports) United States Career titles 0 French Open 1R (1976) Retired 1977 | |
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Born August 27, 1950 (age 66)
Greenville, South Carolina ( 1950-08-27 ) | ||
Grover "Raz" Reid (born August 27, 1950) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He was born Grover Reid Junior, but is known as Raz Reid, a nickname he has had since he was a young.
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Early years
Reid was a three-time South Carolina state high school champion, while at Greenville High School, in the city of his birth. He went to the University of Miami and twice earned All-American selection while playing varsity tennis, in 1971 and 1972.
Professional career
In 1972, his final year at Miami, he made he decision to delay his graduation and turned professional.
Reid made the semi-finals at the 1973 International Indoor Tennis Championships, a Grand Prix tournament in Jackson, Mississippi. In the quarter-finals he defeated Clark Graebner. He also competed on the World Championship Tennis circuit. At a WCT tournament in Hempstead in 1974, Reid beat former French Open finalist Željko Franulović. He won two Grand Prix doubles titles, both in the 1974 season, the first in Jackson with Fred McNair and the second in Adelaide with Allan Stone.
His best Grand Slam singles performances were third round appearances at the 1974 US Open and 1975 Australian Open. He was eliminated at the Australian Open by Jimmy Connors, but managed to win a set and was the only player to do so until Connors was beaten in the final by John Newcombe. He made the mixed doubles quarter-finals at the 1977 Wimbledon Championships with wife Kerry Reid and also finished runner-up in the All England Plate after a first-round elimination in the singles draw.
Personal life
Reid married Australian tennis player and Boston Lobsters teammate Kerry Melville in Greenville on April 27, 1975. He retired from professional tennis in 1977 to become Kerry's coach. After they both retired, Reid was the head tennis professional at Long Cove on Hilton Head Island for eight years. They have two daughters together.
A keen fisherman, Reid holds world records in fly rod fishing and now works in the industry.