Alun Jones (tennis player)

Alun Jones (tennis player)
Jones 2007 in New York
Nation:	Australia
Birthday:	April 26, 1980
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	69 kg
1st professional season:	2000
Resignation:	2008
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 298,154
singles
Career record:	4: 9
Highest ranking:	123 (August 13, 2007)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	4: 9
Highest ranking:	149 (April 28, 2003)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Alun Jones (born April 26, 1980 in Boksburg , South Africa ) is a former Australian tennis player .

Career

Alun Jones played on the professional tour for the first time in 2000. During this time, when he was only on the third-rate ITF Future Tour , he was already among the top 450 in the individual world rankings. A year later in Adelaide , he qualified for the first time in the main draw of an ATP Tour tournament . Here he was defeated by the American Paul Goldstein . A week later he received a wildcard for the individual field from the tournament officials of the Australian Open . There he was defeated by Juan Carlos Ferrero . He spent the rest of the year on the lower levels of the Future Tour and the ATP Challenger Tour . In doubles he moved up to the top 350 doubles players with three futures titles, in singles his ranking remained largely unchanged. It was the same in 2002, when he was not able to record any great success in addition to a single future and two doubles futures.

In early 2003, Jones failed in the Australian hard court season always in the qualification. In doubles, however, he and his compatriot Raphael Durek got a wildcard, which he used and surprisingly defeated the 13 seeded Czechs Petr Pála and Pavel Vízner in the first round . After another victory, they failed only in the round of 16 at the number 1 in doubles consisting of Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor . In March he was able to advance further into the tournament for the first time at the Challenger in Burnie and reached the semi-finals in singles and the finals in doubles. With 250th place in the singles he got his highest ranking for the time being. In doubles he will never be higher than 149th place, which he reached in April. At the beginning of 2004 he was kicked out in Melbourne in the first round and then withdrew from professional tennis for the time being in frustration to concentrate on training for the time being.

In 2005 he fought his way through three future titles and shot to his new career high within the Top 250 with his first entry into the final at a Challenger in Caloundra. In February 2006 he again lost out in the Burnie final against Konstantinos Economidis . Nevertheless, he won three futures and his only Challenger title in doubles in Kyoto , which he was short of moving into the top 200 in singles. He finally made it in Adelaide 2007, where he achieved his first individual victories at the highest tournament level. At the Australian Open 2007 he lost both opening games - even though he had already led 2-0 sets against French Marc Gicquel . After two more futures, which he won, he won the title one after the other at the Challenger in Nottingham and reached the final in Segovia the following week , where he lost to Spaniard Fernando Verdasco after 9 wins in a row and only one set loss . He traveled to the 2007 US Open in good shape , for which he received a wildcard and where he had a difficult lot with world number 2 Rafael Nadal . He managed to win at least one set in the defeat. After the tournament he was ranked 123rd on his career high. Before the end of the year, Jones won a second Challenger in Burnie. In 2008 he played more matches on the ATP Tour than before. In Adelaide and Sydney (after successful qualification), however, he was eliminated at the beginning. In doubles, he was in Adelaide for the only time in an ATP semi-finals. He achieved his best Grand Slam result at the subsequent Australian Open . He defeated the world number 48. Albert Montañés in four sets and only lost in Round 2 against Juan Carlos Ferrero . Attracting attention with his good performances, Alun Jones was called up for the first and only time in February for the Australian Davis Cup team , where he won against the Taiwanese Yang Tsung-hua . After less good performances, he resigned after qualifying at Wimbledon, where Thomas Oger had given him the maximum penalty of 6-0, 6-0. The reason he gave was a lack of motivation and the stresses of traveling.

In his career he was able to win 17 futures (9 in singles, 8 in doubles) and 3 challengers. Two of the Challenger titles fell into his most successful year 2007, when he played a Grand Slam tournament outside of Australia for the only time. In Melbourne he was able to reach the second round only once (2008) in four participations; in doubles he was once in the round of 16 in 2008.

Personal

Alun Jones, who was born in South Africa to Welsh parents and raised in Canberra, has been married to his partner Jill, with whom he has one child, since 2008. He played a supporting role as Tom Cavendish in the 2004 romantic comedy Wimbledon - Game, Set and ... Love .

Since retiring from professional sports, he has run a tennis academy at the National Sports Club Lyneham in Canberra .

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

ATP World Tour Finals

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP World Tour 500

ATP World Tour 250

ATP Challenger Tour (3)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 28, 2007	Nottingham	race	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 4
2.	December 9, 2007	Burnie	Hard court	Rameez Junaid	6-0, 6-1

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 12, 2006	Kyoto	Carpet (i)	Jonathan Marray	Prakash Amritraj Rohan Bopanna	6: 4, 3: 6, [14:12]

Web links

Commons : Alun Jones  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile Alun Jones (English)
• ITF profile Alun Jones (English)
• Davis Cup stats from Alun Jones (tennis player )
• Profile of Alun Jones (tennis player) on "tennis.com.au" (English)
• Alun Jones in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Linda Pearce: Moore and Jones granted wildcards. In: smh.com.au. August 16, 2007, accessed July 8, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Linda Pearce: With drive lost, Jones calls it quits. In: theage.com.au. June 22, 2008, accessed July 8, 2019 .