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Don Candy
Singles
Full name	Donald William Candy
Country (sports)	Australia
Born	(1929-03-31)31 March 1929 Adelaide, Australia
Died	14 June 2020(2020-06-14) (aged 91)
Plays	Right-handed
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	QF (1952, 1959)
French Open	4R (1956, 1960)
Wimbledon	4R (1951, 1957, 1960)
US Open	3R (1951)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	F (1952, 1953, 1956, 1959)
French Open	W (1956)
Wimbledon	QF (1956, 1957)
US Open	F (1951)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	SF (1952)

Don Candy (31 March 1929 – 14 June 2020^[1]) was an Australian tennis player who was mainly successful in doubles.^[2]

At the Grand Slam tournaments he reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Championships singles event in 1952 and 1959. In the singles event at the French Championships he reached the eighth-finals in 1956 and 1960.^[3]^[4]^[5]

In June 1951 Candy won the singles title at the Kent Championships, a grass court tournament held in Beckenham, defeating Gardnar Mulloy in three sets.^[6] The next year, 1952, he again reached the Kent final but on this occasion lost in three sets to Ham Richardson.^[7] In July 1951 he won the Midlands counties men's singles title after a straight sets victory in the final against Naresh Kumar from India.^[8]

In 1956 he won the Men's Doubles title at the French Championships. With his American partner Bob Perry he won against compatriots Ashley Cooper and Lew Hoad in three straight sets.^[9]

After his active career he moved to Baltimore in 1967 where he coached the World Team Tennis Baltimore Banners and later became the coach of Pam Shriver.^[10] In 2022 Shriver disclosed that she had been in a multi-year relationship with Candy, that started when she was a young player.^[11]^[12]

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Grand Slam finals

Doubles (1 title, 6 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1951	US National Championships	Mervyn Rose	Ken McGregor Frank Sedgman	8–10, 4–6, 6–4, 5–7
Runner-up	1952	Australian Championships	Mervyn Rose	Ken McGregor Frank Sedgman	4–6, 5–7, 3–6
Runner-up	1953	Australian Championships	Mervyn Rose	Lew Hoad Ken Rosewall	11–9, 4–6, 8–10, 4–6
Runner-up	1956	Australian Championships	Mervyn Rose	Lew Hoad Ken Rosewall	8–10, 11–13, 4–6
Winner	1956	French Championships	Bob Perry	Ashley Cooper Lew Hoad	7–5, 6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	1957	French Championships	Mervyn Rose	Mal Anderson Ashley Cooper	3–6, 0–6, 3–6
Runner-up	1959	Australian Championships	Bob Howe	Rod Laver Robert Mark	7–9, 4–6, 2–6

References

^ "Remembering Don Candy". Tennis Australia. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
^ "Players – Don Candy". ATP World Tour. Association of Tennis Professionals. Retrieved 25 February 2010.
^ "Australian Open – Boys' Singles". Juniors. International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 25 February 2010.
^ Lawrence, Don (21 January 1959). "Don Candy Will Fight Ban on Private Tour". The Age. p. 11. Retrieved 25 February 2010 – via Google News Archive.
^ "Perry, Candy Take French Tennis Title". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. 28 May 1956. Retrieved 25 February 2010 – via Google News Archive.
^ "Candy Upsets Mulloy in Kent Tennis Final". The New York Times. 17 June 1951.
^ "Protest By Candy". The West Australian. Perth. 16 June 1952. p. 20 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Marathon tennis". The Cairns Post. Cairns, Queensland. 16 July 1951. p. 2 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Bud Collins (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). New York City: New Chapter Press. p. 400. ISBN 978-0942257700.
^ "Gear Talk: Q&A With Pam Shriver". Tennis.com. 7 April 2011.
^ Shriver, Pam (20 April 2022). "Pam Shriver exclusive: 'I was in an inappropriate relationship with my 50-year-old coach at 17'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ "Pam Shriver's Story: Me, my coach, and the danger of crossing boundaries". The Tennis Podcast. Retrieved 20 April 2022.