{{Short description|Canadian tennis player}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Paul Willey | image = | caption = | full_name = Paul Arden Willey | country_represented = {{CAN}} | birth_date = {{Birth based on age at death|74|2005|06|05}} | birth_place = | death_date = June 5, 2005 (aged 74) | death_place = Arizona, United States | height = | plays = | careerprizemoney = | singlesrecord = 45-57 | singlestitles = 5 | highestsinglesranking = | Wimbledonresult = 1R (1956, 1959) | USOpenresult = 2R (1953) }}
'''Paul Arden Willey''' was a Canadian tennis player<ref>{{cite news |title=Paul Willey's Move |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/492444568 |work=The Vancouver Sun |date=June 10, 1969}}</ref> and winner of the Ontario Tennis Championships in 1954 and the 1956 ILTF British Columbia Lawn Tennis Championships. He represented Canada in the Davis Cup.
==Junior career== Willey, the Canadian junior champion in 1949, attended Vancouver's Kitsilano Secondary School.<ref>{{cite news |title=Offers Galore for Netter Willey |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/491044783 |work=The Vancouver Sun |date=June 18, 1951}}</ref>
==Career== In 1954 Willey won the Ontario Championships in singles at the Boulevard Club<ref>Boulevard Club. https://www.boulevardclub.com/Athletics/Tennis.aspx</ref> in Toronto defeating Lawrence Barclay in the final. He was runner-up at the same event in 1956 to Bob Bédard and in 1957 to Don Fontana, in the latter tournament playing with a sore elbow.<ref>Paul Willey. https://www.tennisarchives.com/player/?pl=5381</ref><ref>Ottawa Citizen, 12 August, 1957.</ref> In 1956, he defeated Nicola Pietrangeli on red clay at Florence, and in 1957 he defeated Mal Anderson on grass at Southampton.<ref>Paul Willey. https://www.tennisarchives.com/player/?pl=5381</ref>
Willey won several tournaments in British Columbia in the late 1950s. He won the 1956 ILTF British Columbia Lawn Tennis Championships at the Victoria Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club, defeating U.S. player Bill Rose, the U.S. Pacific Northwest No. 1 ranked player,<ref>William Joseph Rose Jr. https://irvingtonclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Bill-Rose-Obituary.jpg</ref><ref>Bill Rose. https://oregontennishistory.com/bill-rose/</ref> in the final in straight sets. In March 1959, he won the Pacific Northwest Indoor in Vancouver defeating Lawrence Barclay in the final. Willey won the Western Canada Grass Court Championships at the Vancouver Lawn Tennis Club in August 1959, defeating U.S. player Dale Rohland in a close five set final. Rohland had eliminated Willey from the Canadian Championships the previous year.
==Davis Cup== He played for the Canada Davis Cup team from 1953 to 1958 and had a singles win against American Barry MacKay in 1956.<ref>{{cite news |title=US Defeats Canada 4-1 In Davis Cup Tennis Tie |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/557785517 |work=Red Deer Advocate |date=August 1, 1956}}</ref> Between 1959 and 1963 he served as Canada's national coach, before relocating to Arizona with wife Colleen.<ref>{{cite news |title=Paul Willey returns to find top player |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/557916583 |work=Red Deer Advocate |date=March 1, 1977}}</ref>
==See also== *List of Canada Davis Cup team representatives
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{ATP|w785}} * {{ITF|paul-willey/800173099/can}} * {{Davis Cup player|800173099}} * {{Wimbledon player|a2338f02-9086-46b0-8d0a-92baa6998fd5}}
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