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Paul McNamee AM was the winner of five Grand Slam doubles titles, and 24 doubles titles world-wide. He was a semi-finalist in the Australian Open and reached a singles ranking of 24 in 1986. 2020 represents the 40th anniversary of his win (with Peter McNamara) of the Wimbledon doubles championship. Since his first match on the clay courts of Roland Garros in 1973, in a qualifying round for the French Open, he has developed a love of the clay. Paul McNamee's career is long and varied. He was a champion tennis player, particularly in the craft of doubles, and, on retirement, he held many administrative roles. In 1988, he developed the highly successful Hopman Cup in Perth - named for his mentor Harry Hopman - and later was the chief executive of the Australian Open, until 2006. In 2006 and 2007 he was the executive chairman of the Australian Open golf championships and was CEO of the Melbourne Football Club in 2008. He is a great thinker about sport - and how to market sport in a positive and entrepreneurial manner. Since 2011, he has coached Su-Wei Hsieh who became Taiwan's first Grand Slam winner, in the 2013 Wimbledon Doubles, beating the Australian pair, Casey Dellacqua and Ash Barty. She has also won the doubles title in the French (2014), and again at Wimbledon (2019).