Tennis Career
Greenberg won the Illinois State high school singles titles in 1936 and 1937 while at Lane Technical College Prep High School in Chicago, where he was valedictorian.
Greenberg won the Illinois State Championships nine times.
Greenberg was captain of the Northwestern University tennis team and became that school's first Big Ten Conference singles champion when he won the title in 1940. He repeated in 1941 and won the Big Ten doubles championships in 1940 (with Jerry Clifford), 1941 (with Gene Richards), and 1942 (also with Richards). Greenberg's three doubles titles still rank first all-time in Big Ten history. He led the Northwestern Wildcats to the Big Ten team championships in 1940 and 1942.
Greenberg won the City of Chicago Championship in 1939 and the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in 1942 and 1943.
Greenberg was also a singles quarterfinalist at the U.S. Championships in 1942, 1943, 1944, and 1945.
In 1943 at the tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio, Greenberg reached the singles and doubles finals but lost the singles final to future International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee Bill Talbert. He lost the doubles final to Talbert and partner Alvin Bunis. Greenberg had partnered with Joe Scherr to reach the final.
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