Allan Price Full Name: Neville Allan Price Nickname: Big Al Born: November 02, 1939 (age 73 years) Birthplace: Woodbrook, Trinidad Sport: Lawn Tennis ATHLETE HOME STATISTICS IMAGE GALLERY VIDEO GALLERY COMMENTS Career Highlights Regarded arguably as the best men’s tennis player Trinidad and Tobago has served up Rated with his own brother Lindy Price and as well Michael Valdez, Peter Valdez and Ken Mark as the cream of the crop of players through the 1960s, 1970s Crowned 1957 Tranquility Tennis Club’s men’s singles champion for the first of an eventual ten club singles titles Crowned both junior and senior national singles champion at age 17 National team debut pick and represented T&T at the 1957 Wimbledon Junior Tennis Championship in England Played key role in T&T’s team victory in 1960 Brandon Trophy event held in Jamaica Represented Commonwealth Caribbean for the first time at the International Tennis Federation’s 1960 Davis Cup Tournament staged in Sydney, Australia Halted fellow Trinidadian Peter Valdez’s five-year reign as the men’s national singles champion by defeating him in 1960 final Won men’s singles championship at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Kingston, Jamaica; Partnered by Peter Valdez, also claimed 3rd place in men’s doubles play Represented T&T for the first time in the 1958 Brandon Trophy regional tennis Tournament hosted in Jamaica Nominated for T&T Sportsman of the Year 1962 for the first of six yearly nominations in all Posted the first of several singles and doubles victories in the annual Peter R Phillips Regional Veterans Tennis Championships in 1981 – Won the men’s singles and men’s doubles (with older brother Lindy Price) in Championships hosted in the Bahamas in September Enjoyed succession of men’s singles and men’s doubles titles at the Peter R. Phillips Veterans Tennis Championships between 1981 and 2008 Won the men’s singles and men’s doubles (with Lindy) titles at the Peter R. Phillips Veterans Tennis Championships hosted in the Bahamas in October 1983 Won the men’s doubles (with Lindy) title at the Peter R. Phillips Veterans Tennis Championships hosted in St. Lucia in October 1984 Captured the men’s doubles (with Lindy) and regained the men’s singles title at the Peter R. Phillips Veterans Tennis Championship hosted in Barbados in September 1985 Retained the men’s singles title at the Peter R. Phillips Veterans Tennis Championships hosted in Martinique in September 1986 Inducted into T&T’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1987 Won the men’s doubles title (with Lindy) at the Peter R. Phillips Veterans Tennis Championships hosted in Jamaica August 1990 Won the men’s singles title and retained the men’s doubles title with Lindy at the Peter 1991 R. Phillips Veterans Tennis Championships hosted in Trinidad in September Won the men’s doubles title with Emile Elias at the Peter R. Phillips Veterans Tennis Championships hosted in the Bahamas, September 1993 Won the men’s singles and doubles title (with Lindy) at the 1994 Peter R. Phillips Veterans Tennis Championships Inducted into the Queen’s Park Cricket Club (QPCC) Hall of Fame in 1996 Won the men’s doubles title (with Lindy) at the Peter R. Phillips Veterans Tennis Championships hosted in the Bahamas in September 1997 Won the men’s doubles title (with Richard Hart) at the Peter R. Phillips Veterans Tennis Championships hosted in Venezuela in May 2004 Crowned the men’s over-60 singles champ at the Peter R. Phillips Veterans Tennis Championships hosted in the Bahamas in May 2008 Declared one of T&T’s 50 Sporting Legends in August 2012 celebratory Awards function marking Trinidad and Tobago’s 50th anniversary of Independence Biography A naturally gifted and outstanding performer even from his pre-teen days, Neville Allan Price (known to all as Allan Price) is regarded as one of the finest tennis players the country has ever produced. If experts argue that he wasn’t the best ever player to emerge from T&T, they no doubt, would all agree that he was the best stroke player of them all, and the player most likely to pack the bleachers. Price was born on November 2, 1939, in Woodbrook. At the age of 8 Price picked up an interest in tennis, having lived on Long Circular Road opposite the St. James Tennis Club where he would practice the sport on evenings. At the tender age of 9, Price won his first competition – the St. James Tennis Club Cup. The late 1950s ushered in a wave of new and exciting young tennis aces to the forefront of the game in T&T, and none arrived with more flare and brilliance than Price. In 1957 Price was crowned the Tranquility Club’s men’s singles champion to claim what would be the first of ten club singles titles. That same year the skilled junior player made the outstanding feat of being crowned both the junior and senior national singles champion at age 17. However, the teenaged athlete’s biggest highlight of the year was still to come, as he made his debut on the national team while representing T&T at the Wimbledon Junior Tennis Championship in England. The following year Price, along with compatriot Peter Valdez, were offered a six-month Ovaltine scholarship to England to improve their level of play and gain the experience of playing against more foreign players. But the venture became financially unattainable and they were left with no choice to return home that same year. His durability seemed unmatched as he continued to be a top choice on the national team in the Commonwealth Caribbean Championships for the Brandon Trophy from 1958 – 1980. He also represented the Caribbean at the Davis Cup tournament from 1960 – 1974. Truly talented, Price had the distinction of winning every major local title between 1957 to 1982 and a collection of 25 men’s singles crowns in an assortment of domestic competitions. Price’s greatest individual achievement came in 1962 when he won the men’s singles title at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games held in Jamaica. He also won a bronze medal in the men’s doubles with Valdez at those Games. It was in this year that he received his first of six nominations for the T&T Sportsman of the Year Award. Price’s transition into the veteran category did not phase him one bit, in fact it just marked the beginning of a new chapter. 1981 marked his reign in the Peter R. Phillips Veterans Tennis Championships, when he won the men’s singles and men’s doubles (with older brother Lindy Price) titles at the event held in the Bahamas in September. At these veteran championships, Price collected a whopping total of 8 singles titles and 11 doubles titles. Education Fatima College (Trinidad) References Price, Allan. Phone Interview. 8 Oct. 2012. daviscup/en/players/player/profile.aspx?playerid=10004261 foba.fatima.edu.tt/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Fatima_60th_Anniversary_Supplement.pdf usportt/archives/15454 ttsportshall/Halloffame/tabid/62/abc/P/ds/Discipline/Default.aspx CURRENT EVENTS Current Events Current Events Athletics- Quincy Wilson is keen to make a big impression at Friday’s TnT Elite Twilight [...] WHY A NATIONAL SPORTING ARCHIVE? Why a National Sporting Archive? Why a National Sporting Archive? 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