Full name | Joel Bailey |
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Country (sports) | ![]() |
Born | West Palm Beach, Florida | April 25, 1951
Plays | Right-handed |
Singles | |
Career record | 7–34 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 197 (December 31, 1978) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Wimbledon | 1R ( 1978, 1981) |
US Open | 2R ( 1979) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 28–55 |
Career titles | 1 |
Highest ranking | No. 90 (September 24, 1979) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | 2R ( 1981) |
French Open | 1R ( 1978) |
Wimbledon | 2R ( 1978) |
US Open | 1R ( 1977, 1979, 1981) |
Joel Bailey (born April 25, 1951) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.
Bailey was born in Florida but based in Memphis, Tennessee. An All-American varsity tennis player at Samford University, Bailey began competing internationally in the late 1970s.
He won a Grand Prix doubles title in Lagos, Nigeria with Bruce Kleege in 1979. [1]
In singles, he had his first big match win at Sarasota in 1980 when he saved triple match points to upset Steve Krulevitz, from a set and 2–5 down. [2] He had only entered the tournament as a wild card, which was awarded as he was the son of Mack Bailey, who owned the company that sponsored the tournament. [3] At the Tulsa that year he made the quarter-finals, his best performance in a Grand Prix tournament. He competed in the main draw of the 1981 Wimbledon Championships and had a two set lead over Kevin Curren in their first round encounter, but lost in five. [4]
From the 1980s he lived in Japan and appeared in many tournaments in that country, as well as earning a living teaching tennis. [5] He twice won the doubles title at the ATP Challenger event in Nagoya.
Result | W/L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Mar 1979 | Lagos, Nigeria | Hard |
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6–4, 6–7, 6–3 |
No. | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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1. | 1979 | Nagoya, Japan | Hard |
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7–6, 7–5 |
2. | 1979 | Lincoln, U.S. | Hard |
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0–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
3. | 1983 | Nagoya, Japan | Hard |
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6–4, 3–6, 7–6 |