[3] Earlier in the year, he won his first Grand Slam singles match, on his sixth attempt, beating Australian Dick Crealy at Wimbledon.

[3] he also held match point against john McEnroe in the 2nd round in San Francisco after defeating top tenner Tom Gorman in the first round In 1979 he had his best year on tour, making a quarter-finals in Atlanta, Johannesburg, and Toronto where he beat top tenner Vijay Amritraj and Tel Aviv.

[3] In the US Open after losing to Guillermo Vilas he and partner Charlie Pasarell made it to the third round of the men's doubles.

[4] He also had success with Glickstein on the 1981 Grand Prix season, with the pair finishing runner-up in Johannesburg and at the South Orange Open.

He eventually settled in the United States, where he married an American, the former Jill Strelitz with whom he has three children, Jonathan, Daniella and Michael, and three grandchildren.