Herb Fitzgibbon

Herb Fitzgibbon

Herb Fitzgibbon (born July 14, 1942 in Garden City, New York) was a nationally ranked tennis player in the 1960s and 1970s.

FitzGibbon played four years of high school tennis for Garden City High School and never lost a match. He went on to play college tennis at Princeton University, and was a gold and bronze medalist at the Olympic Games at Mexico City in 1968 (tennis was a demonstration sport).

He won the singles title at Cincinnati in 1964, and was a two-time singles finalist (1965 and 1963) there as well. He also reached the Cincinnati doubles final with Butch Newman in 1965.

Also in 1964, he won the Long Island Championships and the Eastern Clay Court title.

He would go to be an outstanding platform tennis player, winning platform national doubles titles in 1974 with John Beck and again in 1977 and 1978 with Hank Irvine.

He also authored the book "The Complete Racquet Sports Player".


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