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About Earl Cochell
- Earl Cochell (born May 18, 1922), is the only tennis player ever barred for life by the United States Tennis Association.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 a fourth round match in that event against Gardnar 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 the University of Southern California, and was runner-up (to Tony Trabert of the University of Cincinnati) in the NCAA singles championship in 1951.
- In 1946, he reached the singles quarterfinals at the Tri-States Tennis Championships at Cincinnati (now the Cincinnati Masters).
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