Jim Pugh
Jim Pugh is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He grew up in Palos Verdes, California and at age 10 began taking tennis lessons from John Hillebrand. He played tennis at UCLA. He became a doubles specialist on the ATP Tour and won three Grand Slam men's doubles titles and five Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. Pugh reached the world No. 1 doubles ranking in 1989.
Career
Pugh was a member of the U.S. team that won the Davis Cup in 1990. Partnering with Rick Leach, he won the doubles rubbers in all four of the rounds which the U.S. played in that year and clinched the team's victory in the final with a win over Pat Cash and John Fitzgerald of Australia. Pugh has a 6–0 career record in Davis Cup play.Pugh won 27 doubles titles. He also won one top-level singles title at Newport, Rhode Island in 1989, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 37 in 1987. Pugh won his last career doubles title at Los Angeles in 1992.
Pugh was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Hall of Fame in 2008.
ATP career finals
Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loss | 0–1 | [OTB Open|] | Schenectady, United States | Grand Prix | Hard |  dts|Oct 1987Doubles: 37 (22 titles, 15 runner-ups)
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dts|Sep 1995