Aaron Krickstein

Aaron Krickstein

Nation:

United States

Birthday:

2nd August 1967

Size:

183 cm

Weight:

73 kg

1st professional season:

1983

Resignation:

1996

Playing hand:

Right, two-handed backhand

Trainer:

Gavin Hopper

Prize money:

$ 3,709,772

singles

Career record:

395: 256

Career title:

9

Highest ranking:

6 (February 26 1990)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	HF (1995)
French Open	AF (1985, 1994)
Wimbledon	AF (1989, 1995)
US Open	HF (1989)

Double

Career record:

10:19

Highest ranking:

196 (February 25 1985)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	-
French Open	1R (1987)
Wimbledon	-
US Open	-

Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Aaron Krickstein (born August 2, 1967 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) is a retired American tennis player .

Career

At the beginning of his career, Krickstein caused a stir in Tel Aviv in 1983. At the age of 16 years and two months, he was the youngest winner of an individual competition at an ATP tournament. He is still the youngest winner of an ATP tournament. His reaching the top ten of the world rankings at the age of 17, which he reached for the first time in 1984, is also unsurpassed. He reached the highest position on the tennis world rankings in 1990 6th place. In his career he won nine tournaments in men's singles. In total, he won about 3.7 million US dollars in singles and doubles.

Aaron Krickstein is the uncle of the golfer Morgan Pressel , whom he occasionally accompanied as a caddy . Krickstein was there when Pressel qualified as the youngest player in history for the US Open at the age of 12.

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Opponent in the final	Result
1.	October 10, 1983	Israel Tel Aviv (1)	Hard court	Germany Christoph Zipf	7: 6, 6: 3
2.	July 16, 1984	United States Boston	Clay court	Argentina José Luis Clerc	6: 2, 1: 6, 2: 6, 2: 6
3.	September 10, 1984	IsraelTel Aviv (2)	Hard court	Israel Shahar Perkiss	6: 4, 6: 1
4th	17th September 1984	Switzerland Geneva	Clay court	Sweden Henrik Sundström	6: 7, 6: 1, 6: 4
5.	January 9, 1989	Australia Sydney	Hard court	Russia Andrei Cherkassov	6: 4, 6: 2
6th	September 18, 1989	United States los Angeles	Hard court	United States Michael Chang	2: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2
7th	17th October 1989	Japan Tokyo	carpet	Germany Carl-Uwe Steeb	6: 2, 6: 2
8th.	March 30, 1992	South Africa 1961 Johannesburg	Hard court	Russia Alexander Volkov	6: 4, 6: 4
9.	March 29, 1993	South Africa 1961 Durban	carpet	South Africa 1961 Grant Stafford	6: 3, 7: 6 ⁷