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Cliff Drysdale
Eric Clifford 'Cliff' Drysdale
(born 26 May 1941,
Nelspruit
,
South Africa
) is a former top-ranked professional
tennis
player of the 1960s and early 1970s who became a well-known tennis announcer. He was one of the
Handsome Eight
, a group of players signed by
Lamar Hunt
in 1968 for the newly formed professional
World Championship Tennis
(WCT) group. He became President of the
Association of Tennis Professionals
(ATP) when it was formed by
Jack Kramer
,
Donald Dell
, and himself in 1972. Drysdale was ranked World No. 4 in 1965 by
Lance Tingay
of
The Daily Telegraph
.
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