Brian Devening

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Brian Devening Tennis player
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Birthday: July 16, 1967
Size: 185 cm
Weight: 82 kg
1st professional season: 1990
Resignation: Time unknown
Playing hand: Right
Prize money: $ 177,318
singles
Career record: 2: 9
Career title: 0
Highest ranking: 277 (November 19 1990)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open -
French Open R2 (1993)
Wimbledon R1 (1993)
US Open -
Double
Career record: 34:48
Career title: 0
Highest ranking: 77 (April 4 1994)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open R1 (1994)
French Open R1 (1994)
Wimbledon R2 (1994)
US Open R1 (1993,1994)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Brian Devening (born July 16, 1967 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is a retired American tennis player .

Life

Devening was the 1983 national U16 hard court champion and studied at Southern Methodist University between 1985 and 1989 . In 1990 he became a professional tennis player and initially played in satellite tournaments and the ATP Challenger Tour . On the ATP World Tour he only had notable successes as a double player. In 1993 he made it to the double finals of the Swedish Open and Santiago . Other notable results were semi-finals in Prague and Tel Aviv in 1992, as well as in Mexico City and Rosmalen in 1994. On the ATP Challenger Tour he won the double title in Singapore in 1994 . He reached his highest ranking in the tennis world rankings in 1990 with position 277 in singles and in 1994 with position 77 in doubles.

His best individual result in a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the second round of the French Open in 1993 by defeating Frédéric Fontang . In the doubles competition he reached the side of Greg Van Emburgh in 1994 the second round of Wimbledon by defeating Darren Cahill and John Fitzgerald .

Final participation

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series (2)

Double

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Bottom line
1. 1993 SwedenSweden Båstad sand SwedenSweden Tomas Nydahl SwedenSweden Henrik Holm Anders Järryd
SwedenSweden  		1: 6, 6: 3, 3: 6
2. 1993 ChileChile Santiago de Chile sand SwedenSweden Christer Allgårdh United StatesUnited States Mike Bauer David Rikl
Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		6: 7, 4: 6

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personal data
SURNAME Devening, Brian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin