Dustin Brown (tennis player)

Dustin Brown
Brown at the US Open in 2016
Nickname:	Dreddy
Nation:	Jamaica 2002–2010 Germany 2010–
Birthday:	December 8, 1984
Size:	196 cm
Weight:	78 kg
1st professional season:	2002
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 2,906,111
singles
Career record:	62:98
Highest ranking:	64 (October 10, 2016)
Current placement:	204
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	73:88
Career title:	2
Highest ranking:	43 (May 14, 2012)
Current placement:	216
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: November 11, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Dustin Brown (born December 8, 1984 in Celle ) is a German tennis player who played for Jamaica until 2010 .

life and career

Until 2003: Career and ATP debut

Dustin Brown was born to a Jamaican father and a German mother and grew up in Winsen an der Aller . When he was eleven he moved to Montego Bay , Jamaica. There he began playing tournaments on the ITF Future Tour in 2002, and as a result rose to the top 600 in the world rankings. In April 2003, Brown competed for Jamaica in the Davis Cup . He helped his country to rise to Group II with four singles and three double victories. This should be his last matches in the Davis Cup so far, as there was a dispute with the Jamaican Tennis Association. In July 2003 he qualified in Newport for the first time for a tournament on the ATP Tour , but lost in the first round to Bob Bryan .

2004–2009: With the mobile home to the first Challenger title

At the end of 2003, Brown returned to Germany after graduating from college and from then on played future tournaments in Europe. He traveled from tournament to tournament in a motorhome given by his parents. In 2007 he won his first tournament in a future tournament, followed by another in 2008.

The year 2009 should be the most successful so far for Dustin Brown: After his third title in a future tournament in March 2009, he won his first Challenger title in Samarkand in August 2009 . In addition, he reached four more Challenger finals in Karlsruhe , Almaty , Eckental and Aachen during the year . At the end of the year he was ranked 144th in the world.

2010–2011: Entry into the Top 100, Grand Slam debut and first ATP title in doubles

Because of this placement, he was able to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at the Australian Open in January 2010 , but failed in the second qualifying round to Guillaume Rufin . In February 2010 he played in Johannesburg for the second time in his career in the main round of an ATP Tour tournament. Here he succeeded after victories over the world number 53. Marco Chiudinelli and Laurent Recouderc made it to the quarterfinals, where he lost to the eventual finalist Stéphane Robert . Two months later, he also achieved his second triumph at a Challenger tournament in Johannesburg by beating Izak van der Merwe in the final , making him the top 100 in the world rankings for the first time in his career. In June 2010, Brown took part in the ATP tournament at Queen’s Club in London . There he defeated Frank Dancevic in the first round , but then lost to Denis Istomin . A week later he qualified in Eastbourne for the main round, but lost there to Henri Kontinen . He then took part in the Boodles Challenge preparatory tournament, where, after victories over Fernando Verdasco and Tommy Robredo, he could only be stopped in the final by Gaël Monfils . Due to his world ranking position, Brown was directly qualified at Wimbledon , but was defeated in his first Grand Slam match in four sets by Jürgen Melzer, who was 16 th . A week after Wimbledon, Brown played at the lawn tournament in Newport , and was able to reach the quarter-finals of an ATP tournament for the second time after winning over Björn Phau and the top seeded Sam Querrey , where he was eliminated against the Argentine Brian Dabul . At the ATP tournaments in Stuttgart and Gstaad , Brown lost after close matches in the first round, but reached the semi-finals in Gstaad together with George Bastl in doubles. At the Austrian Open in Kitzbühel, which is part of the Challenger Tour in 2010, Dustin Brown defeated the now 42-year-old former world number one Thomas Muster in the first round . In the second round he had to give up against Lukáš Rosol due to an eye injury , but won the fourth Challenger title in just under four months in doubles at Rogier Wassen's side . After he failed at the ATP tournament in New Haven after successful qualification in the first round by Jan Hájek , Brown was able to celebrate his first victory at a Grand Slam tournament in three tight sets against Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo in the first round of the US Open . In the second round he met fourth place in the world rankings Andy Murray , against whom he could keep up well in the first set, but ultimately lost clearly in three sets. In September 2010 Brown won his fifth double Challenger title of the season with Rogier Wassen in Szczecin . At the ATP tournament in Metz , Brown failed in the singles in the first round against the eventual winner Gilles Simon , but in doubles he was able to reach an ATP final for the first time together with Wassen. There they defeated the Brazilian pairing Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares in straight sets, and Brown won his first ATP title. In October 2010 he reached the individual semi-finals at the Challenger tournaments in Mons and Tashkent . The next major success followed in doubles at the ATP tournament in Montpellier , where he just lost in the semifinals with Rogier Wassen. At the end of October 2010 Brown announced that he would play for Germany from now on. After another semifinal participation in Eckental , Brown reached the final in Aachen, as in the previous year , defeating Rajeev Ram , against whom he had lost the final last year , among others . In the final, he beat Igor Sijsling in two sets and won his second individual title this year. As a result, he achieved his best position in the world rankings to date with rank 92. At the end of the year, Brown won his sixth Challenger double title this year together with Martin Emmrich in Helsinki .

After a first round defeat at the season opener in Chennai , Dustin Brown met Albert Montañés, who was 25th in his Australian Open debut . After already trailing 2-0 sets, Brown fought his way into a fifth set, but eventually lost it to the favorite. In doubles he reached the second round together with Rogier Wassen . At the beginning of February 2011 Dustin Brown competed in the ATP tournament in Johannesburg, as in the previous year . There he prevailed in the first round against Florent Serra , who was fifth , but then surprisingly lost in three sets against Izak van der Merwe . At the following tournaments in San José , Delray Beach and Indian Wells , Brown was eliminated in the first round. After he lost again to Izak van der Merwe in the semi-finals of the Challenger tournament in Johannesburg and thus could not defend his title, Dustin Brown fell out of the top 100 again. For the ATP tournament in Munich , however, he received a wildcard and eliminated Stanislas Wawrinka, who was in second place, in three sets in the first round . Then he lost against the later semi-finalist Radek Štěpánek also just in three sets. The win against Wawrinka was Brown's last individual victory at ATP level for the time being: He lost in the first round both at the French Open and at the lawn tournaments in Halle and Newport . At Wimbledon , he even failed in the first qualifying round. Things went a little better in doubles: There he was able to reach the round of 16 at the French Open together with Michael Kohlmann , and he also reached the quarter-finals in several ATP tournaments with changing partners. In August 2011, Brown reached two Challenger quarter-finals in singles. In doubles he was able to win the first title of the season together with Lovro Zovko in Manerbio . Only two weeks later he won the second title in Genoa alongside Horacio Zeballos . In the last three months of the year Dustin Brown was eliminated from singles in six of eight Challenger tournaments in the first round and reached two quarter-finals. As a result, he fell back in the world rankings to 180th place. In doubles he was able to win another title together with Zovko in Ortisei in Val Gardena and ended the year in 67th place in the doubles world rankings.

2012–2013: Second ATP double title

The year 2012 began for Dustin Brown in singles with several first round defeats at Challenger and ATP qualification tournaments. In doubles, however, things went better: In February 2012 he reached the semifinals at the ATP tournament in Montpellier together with Lovro Zovko . Three weeks later he competed in Marseille with the top 10 player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga , with whom he was able to reach an ATP final for the second time in his career. There, however, they just lost in three sets against Nicolas Mahut and Édouard Roger-Vasselin . In March Brown was able to reach a Challenger semi-finals in the singles for the first time this year in Sarajevo , but there he lost to Jan Hernych . In doubles, on the other hand, he won the title together with Jonathan Marray after the two had narrowly lost two Challenger finals in the previous weeks. A week later, Brown moved into a Challenger semi-final in Bath by defeating the top 100 player Andreas Beck and was then able to reach the final. There he won in two sets against Jan Mertl and thus secured his fourth Challenger title in individual. In April 2012 Dustin Brown was eliminated from the singles qualification at the ATP tournament in Casablanca , but in doubles he was in the main draw with Paul Hanley . There the two, who had never played together in an official tournament before, first defeated the top seeded František Čermák and Filip Polášek and then marched through to the final, where they prevailed in two sets against Daniele Bracciali and Fabio Fognini and thus the title won. A month later, Brown managed to qualify at the ATP tournament in Munich and after a first round win over Daniel Brands , he just missed a surprise win in the round of 16 against Marcos Baghdatis , who was eighth . In doubles he reached the semi-finals alongside Alexander Waske .

On June 26, 2013 Dustin Brown moved to Wimbledon after defeating Lleyton Hewitt for the first time in his career in the third round of a Grand Slam tournament.

Since 2014

Dustin Brown during qualifying for Wimbledon in 2015

In Doha , a preparatory tournament for the Australian Open , Brown made it to the quarter-finals of the tournament at the beginning of the year after qualifying. There he was defeated by Peter Gojowczyk in three sets with 3: 6, 6: 3 and 6: 7 ⁵ .

At the tournament in Halle he defeated the then world number one Rafael Nadal 6: 4 and 6: 1 in the round of 16 . Brown had a wildcard to thank for the start of this tournament . In Szczecin he won the Challenger tournament with a final victory against Jan-Lennard Struff.

At the Wimbledon Championships 2015 Dustin Brown defeated Nadal again in the second round, this time with 7: 5, 3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4. As a result, he moved into the third round of Wimbledon for the second time. In round three he failed to Viktor Troicki 4: 6, 6: 7 ³ , 6: 4, 3: 6.

In 2016 Brown won the Challenger tournament in Manchester on grass in Manchester . At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Dustin Brown had to retire due to an ankle injury in the first round.

In 2019 he won the Challenger tournament in Sophia Antipolis . At the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart he defeated the number one seeded Alexander Zverev after qualifying in the round of 16 . In the quarter-finals he failed after his own match point 6: 7 (3: 7), 7: 6 (7: 2), 6: 7 (3: 7) to Félix Auger-Aliassime .

Davis Cup

After a dispute with the Jamaican Tennis Association, Brown stopped playing for Jamaica in the Davis Cup . Since his grandmother is English, Brown expressed interest in June 2010 to want to compete in the Davis Cup for Great Britain. In October 2010, however, Brown took German citizenship and from then on went on tour under the German flag. In the 2015 season he made his debut for the German Davis Cup team .

particularities

On the court, Dustin Brown stands out for his dreadlocks , which have not been cut since 1996, and for his extroverted demeanor - this earned him descriptions in the press such as “bird of paradise” or “craziest tennis professional”. He is a serve and volley player and his favorite surface is turf. One of its strengths is its speed.

With 98th place in the world rankings , Dustin Brown was the best placed Jamaican tennis player of all time in July 2010. Richard Russell had previously been the best Jamaican: He had participated in several Grand Slam tournaments between 1968 and 1974 and reached number 140 in the world rankings in August 1973. Brown's best placement was 64th place (October 10, 2016), but at that time he was already playing for Germany, so this cannot be used for the best placement of a Jamaican player.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP World Tour 500 ATP World Tour 250 (2) ATP Challenger Tour (27)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (1) Sand (1) Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 15, 2009	Samarqand	sand	Jonathan Dasnières de Veigy	7: 6 3 , 6: 3
2.	April 18, 2010	Johannesburg	Hard court	Izak van der Merwe	7: 6 2 , 6: 3
3.	November 14, 2010	Aachen	Carpet (i)	Igor Sijsling	6: 3, 7: 6 3
4th	March 25, 2012	Bath	Hard court (i)	Jan Mertl	7: 6 1 , 6: 4
5.	September 8, 2013	Genoa	sand	Filippo Volandri	7: 6 5 , 6: 3
6th	September 14, 2014	Szczecin	sand	Jan-Lennard Struff	6: 4, 6: 3
7th	5th June 2016	Manchester	race	Lu Yen-hsun	7: 6 5 , 6: 1
8th.	April 7, 2019	Biot	sand	Filip Krajinović	6: 3, 7: 5

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 26, 2010	Metz	Hard court (i)	Rogier Wassen	Marcelo Melo Bruno Soares	6: 3, 6: 3
2.	April 14, 2012	Casablanca	sand	Paul Hanley	Daniele Bracciali Fabio Fognini	7: 5, 6: 3

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 20, 2009	Banja Luka	sand	Rainer Eitzinger	Ismar Gorčić Simone Vagnozzi	6: 4, 6: 3
2.	April 4, 2010	Naples	sand	Jesse Witten	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	7: 6 4 , 7: 5
3.	May 2, 2010	Rhodes	Hard court	Simon Stadler	Jonathan Marray Jamie Murray	7: 6 4 , 6: 7 4 , [10: 7]
4th	June 6, 2010	Fuerth	sand	Rameez Junaid	Martin Emmrich Joseph Sirianni	6: 3, 6: 1
5.	August 8, 2010	Kitzbühel	sand	Rogier Wassen	Hans Podlipnik-Castillo Max Raditschnigg	3: 6, 7: 5, [10: 7]
6th	September 18, 2010	Szczecin (1)	sand	Rogier Wassen	Rameez Junaid Philipp Marx	6: 4, 7: 5
7th	November 28, 2010	Helsinki	Hard court (i)	Martin Emmrich	Henri Kontinen Jarkko Nieminen	7: 6 17 , 0: 6, [10: 7]
8th.	August 28, 2011	Manerbio	sand	Lovro Zovko	Alessio di Mauro Alessandro Motti	7: 6 4 , 7: 5
9.	September 11, 2011	Genoa	sand	Horacio Zeballos	Jordan Kerr Travis Parrott	6: 2, 7: 5
10.	November 13, 2011	Ortisei in Val Gardena	Carpet (i)	Lovro Zovko	Philipp Petzschner Alexander Waske	6: 4, 7: 6 4
11.	March 17, 2012	Sarajevo	Hard court (i)	Jonathan Marray	Michal Mertiňák Igor Zelenay	7: 6 2 , 2: 6, [11: 9]
12.	April 21, 2012	Rome	sand	Jonathan Marray	Andrei Dăescu Florin Mergea	6: 4, 7: 6 0
13.	3rd November 2013	Eckental	Carpet (i)	Philipp Marx	Piotr Gadomski Mateusz Kowalczyk	7: 6 4 , 6: 2
14th	September 13, 2014	Szczecin (2)	sand	Jan-Lennard Struff	Tomasz Bednarek Igor Zelenay	6: 2, 6: 4
15th	May 8, 2015	Rome	sand	František Čermák	Andrés Molteni Marco Trungelliti	6: 1, 6: 2
16.	23rd August 2015	Meerbusch	sand	Rameez Junaid	Wesley Koolhof Matwé Middelkoop	6: 4, 7: 5
17th	October 25, 2015	Las Vegas	Hard court	Carsten Ball	Dean O'Brien Ruan Roelofse	3: 6, 6: 3, [10: 6]
18th	2nd September 2018	Como	sand	Andre Begemann	Martin Kližan Filip Polášek	3: 6, 6: 4, [10: 5]
19th	5th January 2019	Nouméa	Hard court	Donald Young	André Göransson Sem Verbeek	7: 5, 6: 4

Final participation

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 26, 2012	Marseille	Hard court (i)	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Nicolas Mahut Édouard Roger-Vasselin	6: 3, 3: 6, [6:10]
2.	July 28, 2012	Kitzbühel	sand	Paul Hanley	František Čermák Julian Knowle	6: 7 4 , 6: 3, [10:12]
3.	April 14, 2013	Casablanca	sand	Christopher Kas	Julian Knowle Filip Polášek	3: 6, 2: 6
4th	April 16, 2017	Houston	sand	Frances Tiafoe	Julio Peralta Horacio Zeballos	6: 4, 5: 7, [6:10]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kwesi Mugisa: No end in sight for Dustin Brown fiasco. In: The Gleaner. July 3, 2016, accessed July 3, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Dustin Brown: "Playing 4 Germany" ( Memento from November 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Dustin Brown disenchants superstar Rafael Nadal Focus online, June 12, 2014, accessed January 19, 2015.
4. ↑ Olympic tennis tournament: Brown has to give up injured. In: Spiegel Online. August 7, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Sandy Macaskill: Wimbledon 2010: Jamaican Dustin Brown Could add spice to British Davis Cup. In: telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2010, accessed July 4, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Dustin Brown: An eye-catcher all along the line. In: srf.ch. July 3, 2015, accessed July 4, 2016 . 
7. ^ Wimbledon-Aus for Dustin Brown: Anti-Boris has to go home - Stuttgarter Zeitung. In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de. July 29, 2013, accessed July 4, 2016 . 
8. ^ Wimbledon 2015: Six things to know about Dustin Brown, the man who knocked out Rafael Nadal . Article dated July 3, 2015 in the telegraph.co.uk portal , accessed July 3, 2015
9. ↑ A “bird of paradise” for Dählhölzli. In: bernerzeitung.ch/. Retrieved July 4, 2016 . 
10. ^ D. Richard Russell | Overview | ATP World Tour | Tennis. Retrieved July 4, 2016 . 

Web links

Commons : Dustin Brown  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Dustin Brown (English)
• ITF profile Dustin Brown (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Dustin Brown (English)