Rusedsky, Greg

Greg Rusedsky
Greg Rusedsky
Player gender
Date of Birth
Place of Birth	Montreal Canada
Citizenship	Canada → ; Great Britain
Place of residence	London , UK
Growth	194 cm
Weight	91 kg
Carier start	1991
Working hand	southpaw
Backhand	with one hand
Trainer	;
Prize, $	8 944 841
Singles
V / p matches	436 - 287
Titles	15
Highest position	4 ( October 6, 1997 )
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australia	1/8 (2001)
France	1/8 (1999)
Wimbledon	1/4 (1997)
USA	final (1997)
Doubles
V / p matches	63 - 53
Titles	3
Highest position	63 ( June 19, 1995 )
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australia	2nd round (1995)
France	1st round (2006)
Wimbledon	2nd round (1994)
USA	2nd round (1994)

Gregory "Greg" Rousseski ( born Gregory "Greg" Rusedski , born September 6, 1973 in Montreal , Quebec , Canada ) is a Canadian and British professional tennis player who played from 1991 to 2007 .

Personal life

Greg’s father, Tom, is a Ukrainian born in Germany ; mother, Helen, was born in England . Greg himself was born in Quebec ( Canada ). In children and youth tournaments represented Canada; six-time champion of Canada in various age categories. In 1991, he won the Wimbledon tournament for youth couples with Karim Alami ( Morocco ). They also won their first ATP Challenger (in Newcastle ) and ATR ( Newport , USA ) tournaments under the Canadian flag. In 1995, he accepted British citizenship. Married since 1999 ; daughter, Scarlett Mary, was born in 2006 .

Professional career

During his professional career, he won 15 tournaments in the ATP series, including the 1999 Grand Slam Cup . In addition, the most successful for Greg was 1997 , when he reached the final of the US Open (lost to Patrick Rafter in four sets) and the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon tournament . In the same year, Rusedski was named the BBC Corporation athlete of the year. ^[2] He also won three tournaments in the men's doubles category, including one in London , with his regular rival in the fight for the first British racket title Tim Hanman .

Twice, in 1996 and 2000 , represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games; the best achievement - 1/8 finals at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta (lost to future silver medalist Sergio Bruger ). In the Davis Cup, he played 43 matches for the UK national team : 20 wins, 10 losses in the single category and 10 wins, 3 losses in pairs. The last match of his career for Greg was the victory in April 2007, paired with Andy Murray over the Dutch couple, which provided the British national team with a general victory in the match.

In January 2009, Rusedski announced his intention to return to professional tennis, ^[3] however, since the moment of this statement he has not participated in any tournament.

Rusedski successfully performed only on hard surfaces - grass, hard and carpet; much weaker - on the ground, where he could not compete with the world's leading tennis players.

ATP Tour Finals (32)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (1)
Grand Slam Cup (1)
ATP Masters Tournaments (2)
ATP Gold Tournaments (6)
ATP International Tournaments (22)

Singles (27)

Victories (15)

No.	date	Tournament	Coating	Opponent in the final	Score
one	Jul 5, 1993	Hall of Fame Championships , Newport , United States	Grass	Javier Fran	7-5, 6-7, 7-6
2.	Apr 24, 1995	Seoul Open Championship , South Korea	Hard	Lars Remann	6-4, 3-1
3.	October 7, 1996	Chinese Open , Beijing	Hard	Martin Damm	7-6, 6-4
four.	Jun 16, 1997	Nottingham Open Championship , Great Britain	Grass	Karol Kucera	6-4, 7-5
five.	Sep 29, 1997	Davidoff Swiss Indoors , Basel	Carpet	Mark Philippusssis	6-3, 7-6, 7-6
6.	Feb 16, 1998	European Championship , Antwerp , Belgium	Hard	Mark rosse	7-6, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
7.	Nov 2, 1998	Paris , France	Carpet (I)	Pete Sampras	6-4, 7-6, 6-3
eight.	Sep 27, 1999	Grand Slam Cup , Germany	Carpet	Tommy Haas	6-3, 6-4, 6-7, 7-6
9.	October 11, 1999	CA-Tennis Trophy , Vienna , Austria	Carpet	Nicholas Kiefer	6-7, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4
ten.	Feb 26, 2001	Sybase Open , San Jose , USA	Hard	Andre Agassi	6-3, 6-4
eleven.	Jan 7, 2002	Heineken Open , Auckland , New Zealand	Hard	Jerome Holmar	6-7, 6-4, 7-5
12.	Aug 12, 2002	RCA Championships , Indianapolis , USA	Hard	Felix mantilla	6-7, 6-4, 6-4
13.	Jun 16, 2003	Nottingham Open Championship (2)	Grass	Mardi Fish	6-3, 6-2
14	Jul 5, 2004	Hall of Fame Championships , Newport (2)	Grass	Alexander Popp	7-6, 7-6
15.	Jul 4, 2005	Hall of Fame Championships , Newport (3)	Grass	Vincent Spady	7-6, 2-6, 6-4

Lost (12)

No.	date	Tournament	Coating	Opponent in the final	Score
one.	October 18, 1993	Chinese Open , Beijing	Carpet	Michael Chang	7-6, 6-7, 6-4
2.	May 15, 1995	America's Red Clay Championships , Coral Springs , United States	Priming	Todd Woodbridge	6-4, 6-2
3.	Jan 27, 1997	Croatian Indoors , Zagreb	Carpet	Goran Ivanishevich	7-6, 4-6, 7-6
four.	Feb 10, 1997	Sybase Open , San Jose , USA	Hard (I)	Pete Sampras	3-6, 5-0, failure
five.	Aug 25, 1997	US Open	Hard	Patrick rafter	6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
6.	Oct 6, 1997	CA-Tennis Trophy , Vienna , Austria	Carpet	Goran Ivanishevich	3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 6-2, 6-3
7.	Feb 2, 1998	Croatian Indoors , Split (2)	Carpet	Goran Ivanishevich	7-6, 7-6
eight.	Mar 9, 1998	Newsweek Champions Cup , Indian Wells , USA	Hard	Marcelo Rios	6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4
9.	Sep 28, 1998	Toulouse , France	Hard (I)	Jan Simerink	6-4, 6-4
ten.	Feb 22, 1999	Guardian Direct Cup , London , UK	Carpet	Richard Krycek	7-6, 6-7, 7-5
eleven.	Aug 23, 1999	US Professional Championship , Boston	Hard	Marat Safin	6-4, 7-6
12.	Oct 11, 2004	Kremlin Cup , Moscow , Russia	Carpet	Nikolay Davydenko	3-6, 6-3, 7-5

Doubles (5)

Victories (3)

No.	date	Tournament	Coating	Partner	Opponents in the finals	Final Score
one.	July 4, 1994	Hall of Fame Championships , Newport , United States	Grass	Alex Antonich	Kent Kinnear David Wheaton	6-4, 3-6, 6-4
2.	Sep 9, 1996	Bournemouth , UK	Priming	Mark Kevin Göllner	Rodolf Gilbert Nuno Marquez	6-3, 7-6
3.	Feb 22, 1999	Guardian Direct Cup , London , UK	Carpet	Tim Hanman	Byron Black Wayne Ferreira	6-3, 7-6 ⁶

Defeats

No.	date	Tournament	Coating	Partner	Opponents in the finals	Final Score
one.	October 17, 1994	CA-Tennis Trophy , Vienna , Austria	Carpet	Alex Antonich	Mike bower David Rickle	6-7, 4-6
2.	Mar 6, 1995	Copenhagen, Denmark	Carpet	Guillaume Rau	Mark keel Peter Nyborg	7-6, 4-6, 6-7