Brendan Evans

Brendan Evans
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	April 8, 1986
Size:	188 cm
Weight:	91 kg
1st professional season:	2004
Resignation:	2010
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Marcos Ondruska
Prize money:	$ 410,076
singles
Career record:	6:15
Highest ranking:	117 (October 12, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	1: 5
Highest ranking:	119 (November 26, 2007)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Brendan Evans (born April 8, 1986 in Pontiac , Michigan ) is a retired American tennis player .

Career

Brendan Evans was already a successful player on the Junior Tour. He played both singles and doubles in all four Grand Slam tournaments. In the individual, his best result in 2004 was the semi-finals of the French Open . Evans was even more successful in doubles this year, winning the Australian Open , the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open with his partner Scott Oudsema . His best individual placement was a 16th place, in the combined ranking he was even 2nd in the junior world rankings .

After his successful junior years, he was considered a great talent in the USA and signed a six-figure sponsorship contract with Nike at the age of 15 . In 2001 Evans played his first tournament on the Pro Tour. Just one year later he got a wildcard for the Miami Masters , where he lost his opening match with his partner Brian Baker . In 2002 and 2003, apart from one Challenger tournament, he played exclusively on the third-rate ITF Future Tour , where he won a total of two singles and three doubles titles over the course of his career.

In 2004 Evans and his junior partner Oudsema received a wildcard for the US Open and thus made his Grand Slam debut. In the first round they met the Spanish duo Feliciano López and Fernando Verdasco , against whom they lost in two sets. After this performance, he was able to win his first two future titles in doubles and one single title in the months that followed. After he was able to celebrate a futures win in 2006, Evans achieved his first success at Challenger level in 2007 when he prevailed in Waikoloa with Oudsema in the doubles competition. At the Masters tournament in Miami he received another wild card for the double field. With Ryan Sweeting he had a surprise win in the first round when they beat the seeded pair Lukáš Dlouhý and Pavel Vízner in straight sets before they were eliminated in the second round. He won the Challenger tournament in Lexington with Sweeting in July and celebrated his first Challenger singles title in Rimouski in October . In November he took his best place in the double world rankings with a 119th place.

At the Wimbledon Championships in 2008 he qualified for doubles. With Amer Delić , however, he did not get beyond the first round. After he already qualified in the singles in Newport , where he moved into the second round, he also made it into the main field of the US Open thanks to a wildcard . There he was defeated in the first round by the qualifier Andrei Golubew in three sets. That fall of the season Evans won his third Challenger title in doubles; in Kolding he triumphed at the side of Chris Haggard . 2009 began quite successfully for him, he won the first Challenger tournament in Nouméa . In July he achieved his third individual success on the Challenger Tour with the individual title in Nottingham . Furthermore, he was in the singles in the main fields of the Masters tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami , where he was eliminated in the first round. Evans achieved his best result at an ATP World Tour tournament in Newport . After surviving the first round last year, he made it to the quarter-finals after victories over Benjamin Becker and Robby Ginepri , where he failed to Olivier Rochus . After moving into the second round in Kuala Lumpur , Evans was able to achieve his best individual result in the world rankings with a 117th place.

In 2010 Evans celebrated his fourth double title on the Challenger Tour. Together with Toshihide Matsui he prevailed against the Chinese duo Gong Maoxin and Li Zhe in Fargʻona . He qualified for the individual field at the Wimbledon Championships and defeated Jesse Huta Galung in the first round , but had to admit defeat to the seeded Albert Montañés in five sets in the second round . Afterwards, he only managed to win the individual on the Future Tour, so that he fell out of the top 300 in the world rankings. At the end of the year, Evans ended his active career as a tennis player.

Evans then decided to study at the University of Virginia , where he studied finance . After graduating, he started as an analyst at the US investment bank Goldman Sachs .

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 (7)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 28, 2007	Rimouski	Carpet (i)	Ilija Bozoljac	6: 7 3 , 6: 4, 6: 4
2.	January 10, 2009	Nouméa	Hard court	Florian Mayer	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
3.	June 7, 2009	Nottingham	race	Ilija Bozoljac	6: 7 4 , 6: 4, 7: 6 4

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 28, 2007	Waikoloa	Hard court	Scott Oudsema	Scott Lipsky David Martin	4: 6, 6: 3, [12:10]
2.	July 29, 2007	Lexington	Hard court	Ryan Sweeting	Ross Hutchins Phillip Simmonds	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	October 19, 2008	Kolding	Hard court (i)	Chris Haggard	James Auckland Todd Perry	6: 3, 7: 5
4th	May 21, 2010	Fargʻona	Hard court	Toshihide Matsui	Gong Maoxin Li Zhe	3: 6, 6: 3, [10: 8]

Web links

• ATP profile of Brendan Evans (English)
• ITF profile Brendan Evans (English)
• ITF junior profile Brendan Evans (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Douglas Robson: Where did talent go? US tennis '' Lost Generation ''. In: usatoday.com. Accessed February 13, 2018 . 
2. ^ Caroline Newman: Class of 2015: A Tennis Pro's Journey from One Historic Lawn to Another. In: virginia.edu. Accessed February 13, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Paul Woody: Former Wimbledon champ escapes tennis trap via U.Va. In: richmond.com. Accessed February 13, 2018 .