Fox attended
Beverly Hills High School, and played tennis for the school. After Fox successfully convinced his friend
Larry Nagler to join him and attend the
University of California at Los Angeles and play tennis for the
Bruins, on a team where Fox was the #1 player, Nagler says "we were bitter rivals and close friends." They were on the junior
U.S. Davis Cup team together. Nagler recalled how: "Allen was a vicious competitor who hated to lose, especially to me. One year [1960] at UCLA I beat him in the singles final of the
Ojai tournament. After he lost, he broke two racquets and sneered at me that he was going to throw the doubles finals. And I was his partner! He said he couldn't stand for me to win another title. Sure enough, we lost to UCLA teammates we usually thrashed." Nagler and Fox won the doubles title at Ojai in 1961, defeating
Bill Hoogs and
Jim McManus. In 1961, as team captain, Fox won the NCAA singles title, beating
Ray Senkowski of Michigan, 6–1, 6–2, and 6–4. He only lost twice in dual match play while in college, to
Rafael Osuna and
Chuck McKinley. He was named
All-American in 1959, 1960, and 1961, He graduated from UCLA with a
B.A. in
physics in 1961, and later earned a
Ph.D. there in
psychology in 1968. When he graduated, Fox was the 4th-ranked singles player in the United States. He won the singles title at
Cincinnati in 1961. He won also the 1962 US National Hard Court title. In 1965 he won the
Ojai Tennis Tournament in men's singles. In 1965 he reached the quarterfinals at
Wimbledon.
Maccabiah Games Fox is Jewish. He won a gold medal at the
1965 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Four years later, he was back at the
1969 Maccabiah Games as the top seed, and again won the gold medal, this time defeating South African
Julian Krinsky in the men's individual semi-finals and South African Davis Cup player
Jack Saul in the finals. In doubles, he and partner Ronald Goldman won the gold medal after they defeated Americans
Tom Karp and
Peter Fishbach in the semifinals, and then Americans
Ed Rubinoff and Leonard Schloss in the finals.
Davis Cup He was named to the U.S.
Davis Cup team in 1961, 1962, and 1966.
Halls of Fame Fox was elected to the
Intercollegiate Tennis Association Hall of Fame as a player and a coach in 1988. He was inducted into the Southern California Tennis Association Hall of Fame in 2002. Fox was also inducted into the
UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005.
Coaching Fox coached the
Pepperdine University men's tennis team, at the highest level-Division 1, for 17 years. He was named to the
Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Hall of Fame and, aside from Gilbert, coached players such as
Robbie Weiss (NCAA singles winner),
Kelly Jones (NCAA doubles winner and world No. 1 doubles player), and
Martin Laurendeau (Captain of the Canadian Davis Cup Team). ==Writing and videos==