Grant Stafford

Grant Stafford

Nation:

South Africa

Birthday:

May 27, 1971

Size:

188 cm

Weight:

79 kg

1st professional season:

1990

Resignation:

Time unknown

Playing hand:

Right

Trainer:

Dennis van der Meer

Prize money:

$ 1,316,633

singles

Career record:

83: 117

Career title:

0

Highest ranking:

53 (January 31 1994)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	AF (1994)
French Open	1R (1994, 1997, 1998)
Wimbledon	3R (1992)
US Open	2R (1997)

Double

Career record:

109: 109

Career title:

5

Highest ranking:

42 (September 14, 1998)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	VF (1995)
French Open	2R (1998, 1999)
Wimbledon	2R (1997-1999)
US Open	VF (2000)

Mixed

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	-
French Open	HF (1999)
Wimbledon	2R (1999, 2001)
US Open	-

Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Grant Stafford (born May 27, 1971 in Johannesburg ) is a former South African tennis player .

Life

Stafford reached the quarter-finals of the junior tournament of the French Open in 1989 on the side of Wayne Ferreira ; both won the title at the US Open Junior Championships that same year . The following year he became a professional tennis player. In 1992 he won his first double title on the ATP Challenger Tour . In total, he won eleven Challenger double titles and three Challenger singles titles in the course of his career. In 1993 he was in an individual final on the ATP World Tour in Durban for the first time , but in his three finals he was never able to celebrate a title win. He was more successful in the doubles competition, where he won five ATP doubles titles in the course of his career. He reached his highest ranking in the tennis world rankings in 1994 with position 53 in singles and in 1998 with position 42 in doubles.

His best individual result in a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the round of 16 at the Australian Open in 1994. There he won against Mark Philippoussis , Emilio Sánchez and Marc Rosset before he was defeated by Goran Ivanišević . At Wimbledon in 1992 he reached the third round after victories over Thomas Muster and Patrick McEnroe , and then lost to Stefan Edberg . In the doubles competition he reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and the US Open. His best result in mixed was the semi-finals at the French Open 1999. On the side of Esme De Villiers he was defeated by the later title winners Piet Norval and Katarina Srebotnik .

Stafford played seven singles and one doubles game between 1994 and 1999 for the South African Davis Cup team . He won his only doubles game on the side of Ellis Ferreira against Andrei Olchowski and Andrei Tscherkassow , but in the singles he could not win a single victory. He lost to Tim Henman , Greg Rusedski , Tommy Haas and Thomas Enqvist, among others .

Tournament victories

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series (5)

Double

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	1996	Israel Tel Aviv	Hard court	South Africa Marcos Ondruska	Israel Eyal Erlich Noam Behr Israel	6: 3, 6: 2
2.	1998	United States Washington	Hard court	Zimbabwe Kevin Ullyett	South Africa Wayne Ferreira Patrick Galbraith United States	6: 2; 6: 4
3.	1998	United States Coral Springs	sand	Zimbabwe Kevin Ullyett	Bahamas Mark Merklein Vincent Spadea United States	7: 5, 6: 4
4th	1998	United States Orlando	sand	Zimbabwe Kevin Ullyett	Australia Michael Tebbutt Mikael Tillström Sweden	4: 6, 6: 4, 7: 5
5.	2001	Australia Adelaide	Hard court	Australia David Macpherson	Australia Wayne Arthurs Todd Woodbridge Australia	6: 7, 6: 4, 6: 4

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ITF Junior Profile (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Stafford, Grant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	South African tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	May 27, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Johannesburg

[1] ITF Junior Profile (English)