Who is Pat Cash? Wimbledon former champ and BBC pundit at the All-England Club
All you need to know about the Australian former Wimbledon winner
PAT CASH will be covering Wimbledon on the BBC for another year.
The Australian knows his way around the All-England Club, having won his only grand slam title there in 1987.
Here is everything you need to know about him.
Who is Pat Cash?
Pat Cash was born in Melbourne in 1965.
He is the son of former Australian rules football player Pat Cash Sr.
In 1981 he was the world's highest ranking junior player and won the Wimbledon junior singles a year later.
How was his tennis career?
Cash’s career blossomed from 1983 to 1987.
During that time he won Wimbledon and secured two Davis Cups.
Furthermore, he won 4 doubles career titles and secured 5 out of his 6 singles career titles.
But despite victory at the All-England Club he had a reputation as a bit of a nearly man.
In 1984 Cash reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon and the US open but was beaten by John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl respectively.
Cash also lost twice at his home event - the Australian Open in the final of 1988 and 1989.
What did he do after his retirement from tennis?
Since retiring Pat Cash has been coaching some of tennis' best players, in Greg Rusedski and Mark Philippoussis.
He also started up his own tennis academy on the Gold Coast of Australia and has coached numerous top ranked Australian juniors.
Keener Wimbledon viewers will be very familiar with the former champ as he is a regular annual guest in the BBC studio for the tournament.
Personal life
When Cash was in his early twenties had two children with his Norwegian model Anne-Britt Kristiansen - a son, Daniel, and a daughter, Mia.
From 1990 to 2002 Cash was married to Brazilian Emily Bendit. They had twin boys and one of the boys, Jett Cash, is an up-and-coming tennis player.
The former Wimbledon champ also founded the Australian environmental charity Planet Ark with his friend Jon Dee.
Away from tennis', Cash's biggest passion is playing the guitar.
