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Mark COX

Mark Cox - England - Australian Open 1971 - quarterfinalist.

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Date: 26 June 1975

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Monday, 05 July 1943
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Leicester, England
  • INTERNATIONAL
  • England
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Mark COX - England - Australian Open 1971 - quarterfinalist.

LAST 16. AUSTRALIAN OPEN 1971 .

 

MARK COX beat ROD LAVER 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6

BOB LUTZ beat ROGER TAYLOR 6-7, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
ARTHUR ASHE beat FRED STOLLE 5-7, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4
CLIFF DRYSDALE beat TONY ROCHE 4-6, 6-4, 6-7, 7-6, 6-1
MARTY RIESSEN beat JOHN NEWCOMBE 6-7, 6-1, 7-6, 7-6
TOM OKKER beat BOB GILTINAN 6-3, 6-2, 6-4
ROY EMERSON beat DENNIS RALSTON 6-3, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4
KEN ROSEWALL beat ISMAIL EL SHAFEI 6-0, 6-2, 7-6
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QUARTERFINALS
BOB LUTZ beat MARK COX 6-2, 6-1, 6-2
ARTHUR ASHE beat CLIFF DRYSDALE 7-6, 7-6, 6-2, 2-6
TOM OKKER beat MARTY RIESSEN 6-3, 6-3, 6-3
KEN ROSEWALL beat ROY EMERSON 6-4, 6-4, 6-3
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SEMIFINALS
ARTHUR ASHE beat BOB LUTZ 6-4, 6-4, 7-6
KEN ROSEWALL beat TOM OKKER 6-2, 7-6, 6-4
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FINAL

KEN ROSEWALL beat ARTHUR ASHE 6-1, 7-5, 6-3.

 

Mark played on Great Britain's Davis Cup team and was on the team that reached the 1978

final against the United States.

 

He was educated at Wyggeston Boys' School in Leicester and Millfield School in Somerset.

Cox obtained an economics undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge (Downing College).