Adams, a native of Miami, went to Archbishop Curley-Notre Dame High School, before competing professionally in the 1980s.

[1][2] His best result on the Grand Prix circuit was reaching the doubles final of the 1982 Quito Open, with Rocky Royer.

[3] In 1982 he also made his first US Open main draw appearance, a first round loss to Mark Edmondson, as well as the quarter-finals in Brazil, his best singles performance in a Grand Prix tournament.

He lost to Andrei Chesnokov in the opening round of the singles and in the doubles he and partner Stanislav Birner had to face second seeds Ken Flach and Robert Seguso.

The title in Lagos came in the same month that he won a match against a young Thomas Muster in another Nigerian Challenger tournament.