Donald Johnson

Donald Johnson
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	September 9, 1968
Size:	191 cm
1st professional season:	1992
Resignation:	2004
Playing hand:	Left
Prize money:	$ 2,294,044
singles
Career record:	7:16
Highest ranking:	194 (April 22 1996)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	318: 238
Career title:	23
Highest ranking:	1 (January 28, 2002)
Weeks as No. 1:	20th
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Donald James Johnson (born September 9, 1968 in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania ) is a retired American tennis player .

Career

Johnson began his professional career in 1992 and played mostly doubles. In singles, he appeared in 23 matches, but won no title. In doubles, he first played alongside Patrick Rafter , Tom Mercer and others before forming a duo with Leander Paes . Together they won three Challenger tournaments. In 1993 he and Jonas Björkman won another tournament on the Challenger Tour in Nagoya, Japan . With Kent Kinnear he played a final in Cherbourg after a year , which was lost to Neil Broad and Johan De Beer . Several early defeats followed until July 1994 when he won the tournament in Neu-Ulm with Jack Waite . With Waite, Johnson was able to post another success in Mendoza in February 1995.

From 1996 he played with Francisco Montana , with whom he reached the quarter-finals of the French Open in 1996 and won two titles on the ATP Tour. In total, they played ten finals by the end of 1998, of which they were able to win seven. With Piet Norval , Johnson won four titles in 2000, including the Tennis Masters Cup in Bangalore . At the Wimbledon Championships in 2000 he secured the mixed title with Kimberly Po . With his next partner, Jared Palmer , he won Wimbledon in 2001 and reached the final of the US Open . In the final of Wimbledon they beat Jiří Novák and David Rikl 4: 6, 6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 7. In the same year Johnson played his only match for the US Davis Cup team . With Palmer he lost against the Indians Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes in four sets.

In 2002 he finally reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open and became world number one in doubles.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam (1) Tennis Masters Cup (1) ATP Masters Series (2) ATP International Series Gold (3) ATP International Series (16)

Title after covering Hard Court (6) Sand (13) Grass (3) Carpet (1)

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 11, 1996	Mexico City (1)	sand	Francisco Montana	Nicolás Pereira Emilio Sánchez Vicario	6: 2, 6: 4
2.	5th August 1996	Amsterdam	sand	Francisco Montana	Rikard Bergh Jack Waite	6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 2
3.	April 28, 1997	Monte Carlo	sand	Francisco Montana	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	February 9, 1998	Marseille	Hard court (i)	Francisco Montana	Mark Keil T.J. Middleton	6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 3
5.	April 13, 1998	Estoril (1)	sand	Francisco Montana	David Roditi Fernon Wibier	6: 1, 2: 6, 6: 1
6th	May 11, 1998	Hamburg	sand	Francisco Montana	David Adams Brett Steven	6: 4, 6: 4
7th	October 12, 1998	Palermo	sand	Francisco Montana	Pablo Albano Daniel Orsanic	6: 4, 7: 6
8th.	April 12, 1999	Estoril (2)	sand	Tomás Carbonell	Jiří Novák David Rikl	6: 3, 2: 6, 6: 1
9.	July 12, 1999	Gstaad	sand	Cyril Suk	Aleksandar Kitinov Eric Taino	7: 5, 7: 6
10.	February 28, 2000	Mexico City (2)	sand	Byron Black	Gastón Etlis Martín Rodríguez	6: 3, 7: 5
11.	April 17, 2000	Estoril (3)	sand	Piet Norval	David Adams Joshua Eagle	6: 4, 7: 5
12.	June 26, 2000	Nottingham (1)	race	Piet Norval	Ellis Ferreira Rick Leach	1: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
13.	October 30, 2000	Basel	Carpet (i)	Piet Norval	Roger Federer Dominik Hrbatý	7: 6, 4: 6, 7: 6
14th	December 17, 2000	Shanghai	Hard court	Piet Norval	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	7: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
15th	March 4, 2001	Acapulco (3)	sand	Gustavo Kuerten	David Adams Martín Alberto García	6: 3, 7: 6
16.	March 12, 2001	Scottsdale	Hard court	Jared Palmer	Marcelo Ríos Sjeng Schalken	7: 6, 6: 2
17th	April 30, 2001	Barcelona	sand	Jared Palmer	Tommy Robredo Fernando Vicente	2: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6
18th	May 7, 2001	Mallorca	sand	Jared Palmer	Feliciano López Francisco Roig	7: 5, 6: 3
19th	June 25, 2001	Nottingham (2)	race	Jared Palmer	Paul Hanley Andrew Kratzmann	6: 4, 6: 2
20th	July 9, 2001	Wimbledon	race	Jared Palmer	Jiří Novák David Rikl	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6
21st	October 29, 2001	Stockholm	Hard court (i)	Jared Palmer	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 3
22nd	January 7, 2002	Doha	Hard court	Jared Palmer	Jiří Novák David Rikl	6: 3, 7: 6 (5)
23.	January 14, 2002	Sydney	Hard court	Jared Palmer	Joshua Eagle Sandon Stolle	6: 4, 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 21, 1997	Stuttgart	sand	Francisco Montana	Gustavo Kuerten Fernando Meligeni	6: 3, 6: 7, 6: 1
2.	October 20, 1997	Ostrava	Carpet (i)	Francisco Montana	Jiří Novák David Rikl	6: 2, 6: 4
3.	February 16, 1998	Dubai	Hard court	Francisco Montana	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6: 2, 7: 5
4th	July 24, 2000	Stuttgart	sand	Lucas Arnold Ker	Jiří Novák David Rikl	5: 7, 6: 2, 6: 3
5.	October 23, 2000	Toulouse	Hard court (i)	Piet Norval	Julien Boutter Fabrice Santoro	7: 6, 4: 6, 7: 6
6th	November 6, 2000	Stuttgart	Hard court (i)	Piet Norval	Jiří Novák David Rikl	6: 2, 6: 2
7th	April 16, 2001	Estoril	sand	Nenad Zimonjić	Radek Štěpánek Michal Tabara	6: 4, 6: 1
8th.	August 6, 2001	Montreal	Hard court	Jared Palmer	Jiří Novák David Rikl	6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 3
9.	September 10, 2001	US Open	Hard court	Jared Palmer	Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett	7: 6, 2: 6, 6: 3
10.	April 1, 2002	Miami	Hard court	Jared Palmer	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	4: 6, 7: 6, 6: 2
11.	June 24, 2002	Nottingham	race	Jared Palmer	Mike Bryan Mark Knowles	0: 6, 7: 6, 6: 4
12.	June 23, 2003	's-Hertogenbosch	race	Leander Paes	Martin Damm Cyril Suk	7: 5, 7: 6

Web links

• ATP profile of Donald Johnson (English)
• ITF Profile of Donald Johnson (English)
• Davis Cup Statistics for Donald Johnson (English)