Harry Greenan

Harry Greenan was born in Scotland, but grew up in Galt (Cambridge). As a youth, Greenan won a bicycle rodeo – and although he preferred playing soccer, the rodeo’s first prize was tennis lessons at the Galt Tennis Club.

In 1960, Greenan started playing tennis competitively, ranking in the top 10 in Ontario Under-18 when he was 17 years of age. Throughout the 1970s, he was ranked as high as third in Ontario in the open division.

In 1983, he won the Over-35 National singles title as well as the doubles title, and the next year was the National Over-35 indoor singles champion. In 1993, Greenan won the Over-45 Eastern indoors title.

Greenan is considered one of the top tennis coaches in Canada. He coached his son, Mark – one of the country’s best doubles players – to Canada’s Davis Cup team. Many other athletes he has coached are athletes and coaches in Canada and the US. He coached Canada’s first Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships winner, Erin Routcliffe, in 2012. Greenan was awarded a Distinguished Service Award by Tennis Canada in 2012.

He became a course conductor presenting certification courses in 1974 and he was a head course conductor for 27 years for Tennis Canada. Greenan served on several committees and on the board of the Ontario Tennis Association.

For more than 20 years, Greenan owned and operated a tennis club in Cambridge and he is part owner of the Royal City Tennis Club in Guelph.

In 2010, Greenan was awarded the Don and Benita Rope Award by the City of Cambridge as Sports Contributor of the Year, and he was inducted into the Cambridge Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.