{{Short description|Australian tennis player (1938–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Warren Jacques | image = | fullname = | country_represented = {{AUS}} | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1938|3|10}} | birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2025|8|15|1938|3|10}} | death_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | height = | plays = | careerprizemoney = | singlesrecord = | singlestitles = | highestsinglesranking = | AustralianOpenresult = 3R (1966) | FrenchOpenresult = 2R (1962) | Wimbledonresult = 4R (1961) | USOpenresult = 1R (1968) | doublesrecord = | doublestitles = | highestdoublesranking = | AustralianOpenDoublesresult = SF (1967) }}
'''Warren Jacques''' (10 March 1938 – 15 August 2025) was an Australian tennis coach and player.
==Biography== Jacques, a native of Sydney, was active on the international tour in the 1960s. He reached the fourth round of the 1961 Wimbledon Championships, beating Jørgen Ulrich, Ingo Buding and Donald Dell en route. His title wins included the Welsh Championships in 1963.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jacques Wins Welsh Tennis |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19630723&id=CX5VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pZYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3932,3309774&hl=en |work=The Age |date=23 July 1963}}</ref>
During the 1980s, while working in Dallas, Jacques was the tour coach of Texas-based players Kevin Curren, Steve Denton and Bill Scanlon.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Leavy |first1=Jane |title=Scanlon Finds Door, McEnroe Gets the Gate |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1983/09/06/scanlon-finds-door-mcenroe-gets-the-gate/56124744-3efb-42fd-b4c2-e9a6a987ad35/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=6 September 1983}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Deford |first1=Frank |title=He Got down And Did It |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1983/09/19/he-got-down-and-did-it |magazine=Sports Illustrated |language=en-us |date=19 September 1983}}</ref> He guided both Curren and Scanlon to the world's top 10, while Denton made it as high as 12 under Jacques. In 1987 he was appointed captain of the Great Britain Davis Cup team and stayed in the position for three Davis Cup campaigns.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jacques sacked by LTA |work=Dundee Courier |date=12 February 1991 |page=14}}</ref>
Jacques died in Sydney on 15 August 2025, at the age of 87.<ref>{{cite news |title=Warren Jacques, Australian tennis player who coached Wimbledon finalist Kevin Curren and the British Davis Cup side |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2025/09/12/warren-jacques-australia-tennis-coaching-wimbledon-davis/ |access-date=12 September 2025 |publisher=The Telegraph |date=12 September 2025}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{ATP|j059}} * {{ITF profile|warren-jacques/800173449/aus}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jacques, Warren}} Category:1938 births Category:2025 deaths Category:Australian male tennis players Category:Australian tennis coaches Category:Tennis players from Sydney Category:Australian expatriates in the United States Category:Sportsmen from New South Wales Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen