Alex O'Brien

Alex O'Brien
O'Brien in 2018
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	March 7, 1970
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	88 kg
1st professional season:	1992
Resignation:	2001
Playing hand:	Right
Prize money:	$ 3,526,390
singles
Career record:	93: 136
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	30 (July 21 1997)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	277: 185
Career title:	13
Highest ranking:	1 (May 8, 2000)
Weeks as No. 1:	5
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Alex O'Brien (born March 7, 1970 in Amarillo , Texas ) is a retired American tennis player .

Career

He won his only single title on the ATP Tour in 1996 in New Haven and in the following year he reached 30th place, his highest single place in the tennis world rankings . O'Brien was more successful in doubles, where he won 13 titles, including the 1999 US Open with Sébastien Lareau and the doubles World Cup in the same year. In addition, he reached 20 other finals of double competitions, including twice at the Australian Open , and once each at the US Open and double World Cup. In the double ranking of the world rankings he was number one in the world for a total of five weeks in 2000.

Tournament victories

Legend (victories in brackets)

Grand Slam (1)

ATP World Championship / Tennis Masters Cup (1)

ATP Masters Series (5)

ATP International Series Gold (3)

ATP International Series (4)

singles

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 12, 1996	New Haven	Hard court	Jan Siemerink	7: 6, 6: 4

Double

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 15, 1994	Cincinnati	Hard court	Sandon Stolle	Wayne Ferreira Mark Kratzmann	6: 7, 6: 3, 6: 2
2.	October 28, 1996	Stuttgart (1)	Hard court (i)	Sébastien Lareau	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
3.	March 3, 1997	Philadelphia	Hard court (i)	Sébastien Lareau	Ellis Ferreira Patrick Galbraith	6: 3, 6: 3
4th	July 28, 1997	los Angeles	Hard court	Sébastien Lareau	Mahesh Bhupathi Rick Leach	7: 6, 6: 4
5.	April 13, 1998	Hong Kong	Hard court	Byron Black	Neville Godwin Tuomas Ketola	7: 5, 6: 1
6th	November 2, 1998	Stuttgart (2)	Hard court (i)	Sébastien Lareau	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6: 3, 3: 6, 7: 5
7th	January 11, 1999	Doha	Hard court	Jared Palmer	Piet Norval Kevin Ullyett	6: 3, 6: 4
8th.	June 14, 1999	Queen's Club	race	Sébastien Lareau	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6: 3, 7: 6
9.	September 13, 1999	US Open	Hard court	Sébastien Lareau	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	7: 6, 6: 4
10.	November 8, 1999	Paris	Carpet (i)	Sébastien Lareau	Paul Haarhuis Jared Palmer	7: 6, 7: 5
11.	November 15, 1999	Hartford	Carpet (i)	Sébastien Lareau	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6: 3, 6: 2, 6: 2
12.	March 20, 2000	Indian Wells	Hard court	Jared Palmer	Paul Haarhuis Sandon Stolle	6: 4, 7: 6
13.	August 21, 2000	Washington, DC	Hard court	Jared Palmer	Andre Agassi Sargis Sargsian	7: 5, 6: 1

Web links

Commons : Alex O'Brien  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Alex O'Brien (English)
• ITF profile Alex O'Brien (English)
• Davis Cup statistics Alex O'Brien (English)