defeating in turn Frank Froehling, Lester Sack, Thomaz Koch and Gardnar Mulloy in a five set final.

[1] In 1969 he won his fourth straight South Florida Championships title, defeating Guillermo Vilas in a close semifinal.

[1] In 1970 he won the La Baule International defeating Pierre Jauffret in the final in a close five set match.

[1] When not on the tournament circuit he practiced in Miami, where he was well known for hitting against a wall for hours, which gave him callouses on his racket hand a good quarter of an inch thick that he would shave down at night with a razor blade.

Perhaps his most conspicuous debut on the tennis stage was his first-round encounter on the grass of the U.S. Championships at Forest Hills, New York, in 1963 with then U.S. No.