Tennis Career
After graduating from Stanford, Douglas entered top-level competitive amateur tennis. From 1960 to 1962, he was in the top ten of U.S. players, with his best finish coming as a quarterfinalist in the 1961 U.S. Open.
Following his service in the U.S. Marine Corps Douglas played on the U.S. Davis Cup team in 1961 and 1962, scoring the only point for the U.S. as they lost the 1961 Davis Cup finals to host country Italy.
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