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Raymond J. Casey (born San Francisco, California,
1900, died Palo Alto, California, 1986) was a
top-ranked tennis player and coach.  

A large and very powerful man for his time, Casey
was a 12-letter man in athletics at the University
of California, Berkeley.  A left-hander, he was
considered to have one of the fastest serve
(tennis)|serves in the world.  Although he won
numerous tournaments on the West Coast, he played
only twice in any of the four major Grand Slam
tournaments.   In the summer of 1925 he travelled
with an American contingent to England.  According
to the Official Encyclopedia of Tennis, at the
Eastbourne tournament Casey beat J.D. Patrick
Wheatley of Great Britain in a 6-0 set that took
only 9 minutes.  This is still considered the
fastest set ever played in a tournament match. 
Later, Casey and John Hennessey reached the finals
of the Wimbledon doubles.  In an era in which
tournament doubles matches were considered almost
as important as singles, they lost one of the most
famous matches in the early history of tennis,
being beaten 4-6, 9-11, 6-4, 6-1, 3-6 by one of
the great French teams of Jean Borotra and René
Lacoste.  Later that summer, Casey won his opening
matches in the U.S. Open|American championship in
New York but was forced to withdraw by a sudden
case of appendicitis.  

In the 1950s and 1960s Casey was a successful
tennis coach in Santa Monica, California, his most
noted pupils being Bob Lutz (tennis player)|Bob
Lutz and Julie Anthony (tennis player)|Julie
Anthony.  He is a member of the Northern
California Tennis Hall of Fame.

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