Tennys Sandgren

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Tennys Sandgren Tennis player
Tennys Sandgren
Tennys Sandgren 2013 in Dallas
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Birthday: July 22, 1991
Size: 188 cm
Weight: 88 kg
1st professional season: 2011
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Jim Madrigal
Prize money: $ 2,144,313
singles
Career record: 32:45
Highest ranking: 41 (January 14, 2019)
Current placement: 100
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open VF (2018, 2020)
French Open 1R (2017, 2018, 2019)
Wimbledon AF (2019)
US Open 2R (2018)
Double
Career record: 5: 9
Highest ranking: 115 (January 6, 2014)
Current placement: 147
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (2020)
French Open -
Wimbledon 1R (2018)
US Open VF (2018)
Last update of the infobox:
January 20, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Tennys Sandgren (born July 22, 1991 in Gallatin , Tennessee ) is an American tennis player .

Career

Tennys Sandgren mainly plays on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ITF Future Tour .

So far he has celebrated nine single and nine double victories on the ITF Future Tour . On the ATP Challenger Tour he has won six doubles tournaments a. a. in 2012 the tournament in Sacramento and in 2013 that in Tallahassee . On February 11, 2013, he broke through the top 150 in the world rankings in doubles for the first time and his highest place in singles was 41st in January 2019.

Controversy over right-wing extremist ideas

As part of Sandgren's successful performance at the Australian Open 2018 , where Sandgren only failed in the quarter-finals, a controversy arose over Sandgren's political attitudes. Sandgren had repeatedly forwarded messages on Twitter from well-known activists of the racist alt-right movement, such as Sebastian Gorka , over a long period of time . Various tweets from Sandgren, around 2,000 in total, had been deleted the morning after his round of 16 victory over Fabio Fognini . Sandgren said he did not support right-wing extremist ideologies and would "only find some content interesting". Among the deleted tweets is a comment written by Sandgren himself, in which Sandgren expressed homophobic thinking: "I stumbled into a gay bar last night ... my eyes are still bleeding".

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500
ATP World Tour 250 (1)
ATP Challenger Tour (10)
ATP title by topping
Hard Court (1)
Sand (0)
Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. January 12, 2019 New ZealandNew Zealand Auckland Hard court United KingdomUnited Kingdom Cameron Norrie 6: 4, 6: 2
ATP Challenger Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. November 16, 2013 United StatesUnited States Champaign Hard court (i) AustraliaAustralia Sam Groth 3: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6 4
2. 20th February 2017 United StatesUnited States Tempe Hard court SerbiaSerbia Nikola Milojevic 4: 6, 6: 0, 6: 3
3. May 7, 2017 United StatesUnited States Savannah sand BrazilBrazil João Pedro Sorgi 6: 4, 6: 3

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. April 15, 2018 United StatesUnited States Houston sand United StatesUnited States Steve Johnson 6: 7 2 , 6: 2, 4: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. October 7, 2012 United StatesUnited States Sacramento Hard court United StatesUnited States Rhyne Williams United StatesUnited States Devin Britton Austin Krajicek
United StatesUnited States  		4: 6, 6: 4, [12:10]
2. 4th May 2013 United StatesUnited States Tallahassee sand United StatesUnited States Austin Krajicek AustraliaAustralia Greg Jones Peter Polansky
CanadaCanada  		1: 6, 6: 2, [10: 8]
3. 21st September 2013 TurkeyTurkey Izmir Hard court United StatesUnited States Austin Krajicek United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brydan Klein Dane Propoggia
AustraliaAustralia  		7: 6 4 , 6: 4
4th January 3, 2014 FranceFrance Nouméa Hard court United StatesUnited States Austin Krajicek CroatiaCroatia Ante Pavić Blaž Rola
SloveniaSlovenia  		7: 6 4 , 6: 3
5. January 9, 2015 FranceFranceNouméa (2) Hard court United StatesUnited States Austin Krajicek United StatesUnited States Jarmere Jenkins Bradley Klahn
United StatesUnited States  		7: 6 2 , 6: 7 5 , [10: 5]
6th November 8, 2015 United StatesUnited States Charlottesville Hard court (i) United StatesUnited States Chase Buchanan CanadaCanada Peter Polansky Adil Shamasdin
CanadaCanada  		3: 6, 6: 4, [10: 5]
7th 20th November 2016 United StatesUnited States Champaign Hard court (i) United StatesUnited States Austin Krajicek United KingdomUnited Kingdom Luke Bambridge Liam Broady
United KingdomUnited Kingdom  		7: 6 4 , 7: 6 2

Final participation

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. 23 August 2019 United StatesUnited States Winston-Salem Hard court United StatesUnited States Nicholas Monroe PolandPoland Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo
BrazilBrazil  		7: 6 6 , 1: 6, [3:10]

Web links

Commons : Tennys Sandgren  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Petra Philippsen: serve from the right. In: zeit.de. January 23, 2018, accessed January 24, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Sandgren says he is a devout Christian. In: sueddeutsche.de. January 23, 2018, accessed January 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sandgren, Tennys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Gallatin , Tennessee , United States