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{{Short description|Australian tennis player and politician}}
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'''John Gilbert Alexander'''
As a tennis player, Alexander reached a career-high singles rank of no. 8 in the world in 1975. He reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open singles on three occasions, and won the doubles in 1975 and 1982. He also played in the Australian team that won the [[1977 Davis Cup]]. After the end of his playing career, Alexander worked as a tennis commentator and managed various sports-related businesses.<br>
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During a tennis career spanning the late 1960s to mid-1980s, Alexander won seven tour singles titles and 27 doubles titles, and earned a total of $1,214,079 ([[United States dollar|USD]]) in prize money.<ref>{{cite web|title=John Alexander {{!}} Overview|url=http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/players/john-alexander/a014/overview|publisher=[[ATP World Tour]]|access-date=30 December 2015}}</ref> He achieved a career best singles ranking of World No. 8 in December 1975. Alexander is the youngest player to represent Australia in the [[Davis Cup]]. He was also one of Australia's longest serving Davis Cup players, representing his country from 1968 to 1983. From 1974 to 1986, Alexander served as the resident tennis professional at Lamar Hunt's World Championship Tennis Peachtree World of Tennis Club in Peachtree Corners, Georgia US.
Alexander served as captain of the Australian [[Fed Cup]] team and worked as a sports commentator for Australian (Channel 7) and British (BBC) television networks for over 20 years.
Joining Seven in 1986, he provided play-by-play commentary and other duties for the network's [[Australian Open]] telecasts for 23 years, as well as appearing on other programs for ATN-7 Sydney, such as [[Seven News]] and 1990s reality show [[Gladiators (1995 Australian TV series)|Gladiators]]. Alexander worked with colleagues including [[Peter Landy]], Garry Wilkinson, [[Allan Stone]], [[Sandy Roberts]], [[Bruce McAvaney]] and [[Johanna Griggs]], as well as [[John McEnroe]] in the early 2000s and [[Jim Courier]] from 2005 to 2010 (who remains in this position to this date, now with the [[Nine Network]]).
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