Gene Mayer

Gene Mayer is a former tennis player from the United States, born on 11 May 1956, who won 14 professional singles titles during his career. He was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, grew up in Wayne, New Jersey, and played at Wayne Valley High School, where he went unbeaten in his two years on the tennis team. He was a double hander on both forehand and backhand and reached his highest ATP ranking, world number four, on 6 October 1980. His older brother Sandy was also a tour player and reached world number seven in 1982, and the two met in the 1981 Stockholm Open final. In 2005 Gene Mayer was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame.