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 Cochell, circa 1951 | |
| Country (sports) |  United States |
|---|---|
| Born | (1922-05-18)May 18, 1922 Sacramento, California, U.S.[1] |
| Turned pro | 1940 (amateur tour) |
| Retired | 1951 (banned) |
| Singles | |
| Highest ranking | No. 6 (1951 U.S. ranking) |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Wimbledon | 1R (1949) |
| US Open | QF (1948,1950) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | 3R (1949) |
| Mixed doubles | |
| Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | 4R (1949) |
Earl Harry Cochell (born May 18, 1922) was an American tennis player, the only one barred for life by theUnited States Tennis Association.[2]
in January 1944 he won theLa Jolla Beach Invitational tournament against Knemeyer in straight sets.[3]Cochell was ranked as high as No. 6 in the U.S.rankings before the 1951 U.S. National Championships (later the U.S. Open). In the fourth round match in that event againstGardnar Mulloy, Cochell, well known for a fiery temper and an intractably independent streak, became angry over a line call and tried to address the crowd by climbing up the chair umpire's ladder to take the microphone. Cochell was stopped from doing so and eventually lost the match to Mulloy, but afterwards, in a locker-room confrontation over the incident with tournament Referee S. Ellsworth Davenport, Cochell insulted Davenport with such abusive obscenity that, two days later, the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association (now the United States Tennis Association) banned him for life from the game and immediately dropped him from the rankings. The ban was lifted in 1962, but by then Cochell was no longer a serious competitor, and he never played another important tennis match, making only a couple of court appearances in 1962.
Cochell played his collegiate tennis at theUniversity of Southern California, and was runner-up (toTony Trabert of theUniversity of Cincinnati) in theNCAA singles championship in 1951. In 1946, he reached the singles quarterfinals at the Tri-State Tennis Championships at Cincinnati (now theCincinnati Masters). In 1949 he won theSwiss International Championships againstJaroslav Drobný atGstaad (today's theSwiss Open).
Cochell married Shirley Catheryn Holmes in 1952.[4] The couple had no children. Shirley Cochell died inOmaha, Nebraska on December 13, 2003, and was buried inFort Madison, Iowa.[5]
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