Before Zan Guerry could spell tennis, he was hitting tennis balls off the front steps of his home in Lookout Mountain, TENN.
Under the watchful eye of his father and Hall of Fame tennis player, Alex Guerry, Zan quickly moved from the front steps to the clay courts of Fairyland Club and Manker Patten and later to the grass at Wimbledon and the French Open clay in Paris.
Guerry’s stellar net career, includes more than 25 national championships in singles and doubles and three All-American seasons at Rice University (1969-71). He has been rewarded with induction into six other Halls of Fame; charter member of Lookout Mountain, along with Baylor, Rice, Greater Chattanooga, Tennessee Tennis and Southern Tennis.
Guerry’s Hall of Fame net resume includes winning national titles in five decades starting with Boys’ 11s Singles in 1960 and most recently a national Senior Father-Son crown with Jeff Guerry this past December.
One would be hard pressed to match Guerry’s run of national gold balls (emblematic of a national championship) for singles titles won in the 11s, 14s, 16s 18s, 35s, 40, and 45s, along with numerous doubles titles.
Guerry’s other highlights including winning a singles match at the French Open (1969) as well as at Wimbledon (1973) and posting two wins at the 1977 U.S. Open before losing to Jimmy Connors.
