Paul McNamee is an Australian former doubles world number one tennis player and prominent sports administrator, born on 12 November 1954. He won two singles and twenty three doubles titles during his professional career, including four Grand Slam doubles titles: the 1979 Australian Open and the 1980 and 1982 Wimbledon Championships with Peter McNamara, and the 1983 Australian Open with Mark Edmondson. He also won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title with Martina Navratilova in 1985. When John McEnroe won Wimbledon in 1984, McNamee was the only player to take a set off him in the entire championship, winning the third set of their first round match.
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He won two singles and twenty-three doubles titles during his professional career
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McNamee won 24 men's doubles titles including four Grand Slam doubles titles in his career
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is an Australian former doubles world No. 1 tennis player and prominent sports administrator
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He won the mixed-doubles title in Wimbledon with Martina Navratilova in 1985
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