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United States · born Sioux City, Iowa, 1963 · right-handed · Newport champion 1987 and Wimbledon quarter-finalist 1989
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2
Newport titles in 1987, singles and doubles
QF
Wimbledon 1989, his best major result
27
Career-high singles ranking, 1989
1986
NCAA singles champion for Stanford
122-117
Career singles record
Goldie was born in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1963 and grew up in McLean, Virginia. He went to Stanford on a full tennis scholarship in 1982, was a practice player for the United States Davis Cup team as a sophomore, and in 1986, his final year, won the NCAA singles title and All-America honours for the third time, with a 71-24 college record and a degree in economics. In July 1987, ranked No. 113, he won his first professional title on the grass at Newport, beating Sammy Giammalva 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, and took the doubles there with Larry Scott. He won a second singles title in Seoul in 1988 and reached a career-high No. 27 in 1989, the year he reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals.
Shin injuries ended his career in 1991, with a 122-117 singles record and about $683,000 in prize money. Three months later he started an independent advisory firm in Palo Alto with no clients. He later co-wrote The Investment Answer with Gordon Murray, which spent a month on The New York Times bestseller list. In 2015 he returned to competition and won the USTA national men's 50 hard court singles and doubles in Santa Barbara without losing a set.
| Newport 1987 | Beat Larry Scott, David Pate, Mark Flur and Wally Masur, then Sammy Giammalva 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 in the final; Giammalva served 12 double faults. Goldie won $20,000 and the doubles with Scott against Chip Hooper and Mike Leach |
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| Wimbledon 1989 | Unseeded. Beat Kelly Evernden 7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-0, the 10th seed Jimmy Connors 7-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, Wally Masur 7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 7-6 and Slobodan Živojinović 6-4, 6-4, 7-6, then lost to Ivan Lendl 7-6, 7-6, 6-0 in the quarter-finals |
| Newport 1988 | Runner-up in the doubles with Scott Davis, losing to Kelly Jones and Peter Lundgren 6-3, 7-6 |
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| 1987 | Men's doubles Hall of Fame Open | with Larry Scott |
| 1987 | Men's singles Hall of Fame Open | |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"This is a lot different than college"
The person behind the player.
McLean, Virginia, 1970s
Goldie has said tennis was largely an escape from a troubled home. After his parents divorced, money was short and the family could not afford the Bollettieri academy. By about 15 he was the best 18-and-under player in the mid-Atlantic region, though he later admitted the competition was not strong.
Source: Sports Illustrated, 2015Stanford, 1982 to 1986
As a sophomore he was a practice player for the US Davis Cup team. As a junior he won the Pac-10 singles and doubles and the national indoor title, and in his final year he won the NCAA singles championship.
Source: Sports Illustrated, 2015Wimbledon 1989
Goldie, ranked 47th that week, beat Jimmy Connors in four sets in the second round. Connors, at 36 the oldest man in the draw, said: "Basically, the operation was successful but the patient died." Goldie said: "It's a great thrill for me to win because Connors is still a very good player."
Source: The Battalion (AP), 29 June 1989Palo Alto, 1991
He retired with bad shins in 1991 and three months later opened Dan Goldie Financial Services with no clients and a $50,000 minimum. By 2015 it managed about $700 million. Looking back on the tour he said: "I made a mistake, personally, of being too focused on the earnings dimension of professional tennis."
Source: Sports Illustrated, 2015Santa Barbara, 2015
After 15 years of recreational soccer and almost no tennis, Goldie entered the USTA national men's 50 hard court championships in 2015 and won the singles and doubles without dropping a set. On the soccer years he said: "The grass didn't hurt my shins."
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