Myron Jay "Mike" Franks (born December 23, 1936) is an American former world class tennis player.

UCLA won its 5th NCAA Tennis Team Championship in 1956, but was placed on two years probation for football recruiting violations in 1957 and 1958.

He was considered a tennis prodigy from the time he won his first tournament match after only one month of playing, beating a player with three years experience.

For 28 years from 1974 until 2001, Franks organized and ran the Annual Carl Reiner Charity Celebrity Tennis Tournament in La Costa, California,[5][4] with a total of 400 players that included 100 outstanding tennis players to play with celebrities to help slow learning children with their development.

[4] In 1961, Franks and Donald Dell were selected by the US State Department to be the first Americans to play tennis in the Russian National Championships.

[8] That same year, he won a gold medal by winning the doubles at the 1961 Maccabiah Games in Israel with Dick Savitt, defeating South Africans Rod Mandelstam and Julie Mayers, and they remain longtime friends; Franks won the silver medal in singles in the competition, losing to Savitt in the finals.

[4] In his tennis career he defeated the following tennis champions: Rod Laver, Alex Olmedo, Arthur Ashe, Gil Shea, Ulf Schmidt, Jon Douglas, Barry MacKay, Herb Flam, Mike Green, Warren Woodcock, Donald Dell, Allen Fox, Charlie Pasarell, Tom Brown, Dennis Ralston, Ron Holmberg, John Newcombe, Bob Hewitt, Fred Stolle, Vic Seixas, Rafael Osuna, Mal Anderson, Billy Knight, Billy Talbert, Billy Lenoir, and Sammy Giammalva.

[4] He was named for induction into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Men's Collegiate Hall of Fame on June 6, 2022.