TENNIS PLAYER

Alex Olmedo

1936 - 2020

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Alejandro "Alex" Olmedo Rodríguez (March 24, 1936 – December 9, 2020) was a tennis player from Peru with American citizenship. He was listed by the USTA as a "foreign" player for 1958, but as a U.S. player for 1959. He helped win the Davis Cup for the United States in 1958 and was the No. 2 ranked amateur in 1959. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alex Olmedo is the 123rd most popular tennis player (down from 81st in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Peru (down from 51st in 2019) and the most popular Peruvian Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Alex Olmedo ranks 123 out of 1,569Before him are Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Sven Davidson, Amélie Mauresmo, Arthur Gore, Bobby Riggs, and Cilly Aussem. After him are Naomi Osaka, Gaël Monfils, Mervyn Rose, Petra Kvitová, Roscoe Tanner, and Aryna Sabalenka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Alex Olmedo ranks 254Before him are Frederick Ballantyne, Walter Koenig, Jim Brown, Karol Divín, Lien Chan, and Satish Kumar. After him are Lars Gustafsson, Éder Jofre, Richard Harrison, Birthe Wilke, Guillermo Endara, and Ivan Marchuk. Among people deceased in 2020, Alex Olmedo ranks 285Before him are Jonathan Sacks, Enrique Irazoqui, Idir, Dragoljub Ojdanić, Bernard Stiegler, and Karin Lindberg. After him are Annie Cordy, Gigi Proietti, Neil Peart, Jair Marinho, Litokwa Tomeing, and Suzy Delair.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Alex Olmedo ranks 62 out of 287Before him are Augusto B. Leguía (1863), Francisco Morales Bermúdez (1921), Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro (1889), Ramón Castilla (1797), Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro (1780), and Andrés Avelino Cáceres (1836). After him are Daniel Alomía Robles (1871), Juan Diego Flórez (1973), Martín Vizcarra (1963), Teodoro Fernández (1913), Pedro Castillo (1969), and Eduardo López de Romaña (1847).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Peru

Among tennis players born in Peru, Alex Olmedo ranks 1After him are Fiorella Bonicelli (1951), Jaime Yzaga (1967), and Luis Horna (1980).