Bob Lutz

Bob Lutz is an American former amateur and professional tennis player who was active in the 1960s and 1970s and is best remembered as half of one of the great doubles partnerships with Stan Smith. Born in 1947, he won the 1967 NCAA singles title and, with Smith, the NCAA doubles crown in 1967 and 1968. In his professional career he won 11 singles titles, including the 1972 US Pro Championships and the 1978 Paris Masters, and 43 doubles titles, 37 of them with Smith. Together they became the only pair to win the US doubles title on four different surfaces, and his doubles titles include the US Open in 1968, 1974, 1978 and 1980 and the Australian Open in 1970. He played in five winning Davis Cup teams and was inducted into the Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 1984.