Martin Mulligan Tennis player

Martin "Marty" Mulligan (born 18 October 1940) is a former tennis player from Australia. He is best remembered for reaching the men's singles final at Wimbledon in 1962, where he was defeated by fellow-Australian Rod Laver 6–2, 6–2, 6–1. Mulligan was born in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville. In 1958, he won the boy's singles title at the Australian Championships, as well as the Boy's Doubles. He was runner-up in the men's doubles at the Australian Championships in 1961. In 1962 he was in the finals of the Dutch Open in Hilversum, and he won the men's singles title at the Italian Championships three times in 1963, 1965 and 1967. He won singles titles in 1966 and 1967 at the Swedish Open in Bastad and the Austrian Open at Kitzbuhel. Mulligan won the 1970 Japan Championships. He was ranked in top ten in the world 1962, 63, 65, 67. Mulligan won 1960 U.S. Claycourts doubles (w/Hewitt) and the 1962 German Doubles (w/Hewitt). Mulligan was a member of the 1968 Italian Davis Cup team, playing a total of eleven matches. Mulligan was ranked No. 1 in Italy between 1968 and 1971. He was the coach of Italian Davis Cup team for ten years and was the first non-Italian to receive the Golden Racquet Award by the Italian Tennis Federation.