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Eric Clifford Drysdale (born 26 May 1941) is a South African former tennis player. After a career as a highly ranked professional player in the 1960s and early 1970s, he became a tennis announcer. Biography.
Cliff Drysdale went from making the shots – to calling them. Drysdale has been one of the game’s preeminent television commentators since the late seventies, and has been known as “the voice” of ESPN since the inception of the network in 1979.
As a player, activist, and broadcaster, Drysdale has been the “voice” of tennis for nearly five decades, and in all three capacities, no one has represented the game with more dignity, grace, and distinction than the man from Nelspruit, South Africa.
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Cliff Drysdale, former championship player and an outspoken and influential leader in issues on and off the court since his playing days, has served as a tennis commentator for ESPN since the network’s very first tennis telecast.
Aug 30, 2018 · Half a century ago, in the middle of Cliff Drysdale’s career, the sport of tennis underwent a transformative change, the dawn of the “Open Era.” As of the summer of 1968, tennis would no longer be an amateur sport which shunned the barnstorming stars (including banning the likes of Rod Laver from the four Majors).
Jul 12, 2013 · This year’s class of inductees into the International Tennis Hall of Fame features three of the most important movers and shakers in tennis: Cliff Drysdale, Charlie Pasarell, and Ion Tiriac.
Both on and off the court, Cliff Drysdale is one of the most popular personalities in the international tennis community. This South African played 45 Davis Cup matches for his former homeland, South Africa, over a six-year period.
Jul 11, 2013 · Tennis fans today regard Cliff Drysdale as a fatherly figure in ESPN's broadcast booth, a silky-smooth relic of a sport that has evolved so rapidly as to be almost unrecognizable...
Official tennis player profile of Cliff Drysdale on the ATP Tour. Featuring news, bio, rankings, playing activity, coach, stats, win-loss, points breakdown, videos, and more.
