Carter won the 1985 Melbourne Tennis Tournament with Darren Cahill.

[2] Carter is widely known particularly as the coach of tennis champion Roger Federer.

I can never thank him enough.”[4] Federer won his first Grand Slam event the year following Carter’s death at the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.

[5] Carter died in a car accident on 1 August 2002 while on a belated honeymoon to Kruger National Park in South Africa (his wife Sylvia had been recovering from Hodgkin's disease).

Carter was in a vehicle which swerved off the road to avoid a head-on collision with a minivan.