Tennis Player, Innovator Mike Davies Dies at 79

The tennis world is mourning the loss of Mike Davies, a former British Davis Cup player-turned-administrator who died Tuesday at the age of 79. The International Tennis Federation said Davies died "after a battle with illness." Davies was the top-ranked British player in the 1950s and had a career record in Davis Cup play of 24-13 from 1955 to 1960. He also was a significant figure in ushering the sport into the professional era in the 1960s and ’70s. Born in Wales in...

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