Phil Neer

[6][7] A year later, Neer and partner Jim Davies won the NCAA doubles championship, the first team from a non-Ivy League school to do so.

At the tournament now known as the Cincinnati Masters, Neer reached the semifinals in 1919 as a 17 year old.

On January 28, 1933, Neer, who was ranked #8 in the United States at the time, played his friend and occasional mixed doubles partner[8] Helen Wills Moody in an exhibition match in San Francisco.

Moody, who was the reigning ladies' Wimbledon champion, defeated Neer 6–3, 6–4.

[9][10] This match predated the Bobby Riggs-Billie Jean King "Battle of the Sexes" by 40 years.