Greg Rusedski

Greg Rusedski
Greg Rusedski at the 2004 US Open
Nation:	Canada -1995 United Kingdom 1995-2007
Birthday:	September 6, 1973
Size:	193 cm
1st professional season:	1991
Resignation:	2007
Playing hand:	Left (one handed backhand)
Prize money:	$ 8,944,841
singles
Career record:	436: 287
Career title:	15th
Highest ranking:	4 (October 6 1997)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	63:53
Career title:	3
Highest ranking:	63 (June 19 1995)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Gregory "Greg" Rusedski (born September 6, 1973 in Montreal , Canada ) is a former British tennis player who initially played for Canada.

Personal

Greg Rusedski has a British mother and a Canadian father. In 1995 he decided to take British citizenship. He has been married to Lucy Connor since 1999, with whom he has been in a relationship since 1991. The couple has a daughter (* 2006) and a son (* 2009).

Career

He achieved his best results in 1997 when he reached the final of the US Open , which he lost to Patrick Rafter (3: 6, 2: 6, 6: 4, 5: 7), and in 1999 when he won the Grand Slam Cup in Munich .

He has won 15 individual titles in his career. 1997 was number 4 in the ATP world rankings - it was his best position. In the same year he was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in Great Britain .

Although Rusedski was one of the best British tennis players of his time alongside Tim Henman and Andy Murray , he lacked recognition in the British public. This is particularly underpinned by events that occurred at the home tournament at Wimbledon . In 2000 journalists asked him about his preferred opponent before the draw. Curiously, the draw with Vincent Spadea resulted in the player he named. Spadea won the first round match 6: 3, 6: 7, ⁵ , 6: 3, 6: 7, ⁸ and 9: 7, which caused a stir at the time. In 2003, in his second round match against Andy Roddick, he berated the referee for refusing to repeat a point after a fan interference. He lost the game 6: 7 ¹⁰ , 6: 7 ¹¹ , 5: 7, which brought him criticism again in the press.

Rusedski was plagued by injuries in the last few seasons of his career. In January 2004, he tested positive for nandrolone . After a hearing on March 10, 2004, he was acquitted of doping allegations because the positive test was caused by contaminated food. On April 7, 2007, Rusedski officially announced his retirement from competitive sports.

Records

For a long time, Rusedski was the record holder for the hardest serve in men's tennis; He was able to relegate many serve-and-volley players such as Pete Sampras , Richard Krajicek , Goran Ivanišević or Marc Rosset to the places in this ranking. On March 14, 1998 at the ATP tournament in Indian Wells , he hit with 239.8 km / h. This record was broken by the Swede Joachim Johansson and almost simultaneously by Andy Roddick on February 6, 2004.

For a long time, Rusedski also held the record for the fastest victory on the ATP Tour ; in the second round of the Sydney International tennis tournament in 1996 he defeated the German Carsten Arriens in just 29 minutes. This record was only broken in 2014.

Others

Rusedski's final appearance at the 1997 US Open fell in the week between the death and funeral of Princess Diana . Rusedski played his last games with a black bow as a sign of sadness.

In 2008 he took part in the third season of the figure skating show Dancing on Ice .

successes

Legend

Grand Slam

Grand Slam Cup

ATP Masters Series

ATP International Series Gold

ATP International Series

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 11, 1993	Newport	race	Javier Frana	7: 5, 6: 7, 7: 6
2.	April 30, 1995	Seoul	Hard court	Lars Rehmann	6: 4, 3: 1 problem
3.	October 13, 1996	Beijing	Hard court	Martin Damm	7: 6, 6: 4
4th	June 22, 1997	Nottingham	race	Karol Kučera	6: 4, 7: 5
5.	October 5, 1997	Basel	Carpet (i)	Mark Philippoussis	6: 3, 7: 6, 7: 6
6th	February 22, 1998	Antwerp	Hard court (i)	Marc Rosset	7: 6, 3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 4
7th	November 8, 1998	Paris	Hard court (i)	Pete Sampras	6: 4, 7: 6, 6: 3
8th.	October 3, 1999	Munich	Carpet (i)	Tommy Haas	6: 3, 6: 4, 6: 7, 7: 6
9.	October 17, 1999	Vienna	Carpet (i)	Nicolas Kiefer	6: 7, 2: 6, 6: 3, 7: 5, 6: 4
10.	March 4, 2001	San Jose	Hard court	Andre Agassi	6: 3, 6: 4
11.	January 13, 2002	Auckland	Hard court	Jérôme Golmard	6: 7, 6: 4, 7: 5
12.	August 18, 2002	Indianapolis	Hard court	Félix Mantilla	6: 7, 6: 4, 6: 4
13.	June 22, 2003	Nottingham (2)	race	Mardy Fish	6: 3, 6: 2
14th	July 11, 2004	Newport (2)	race	Alexander Popp	7: 6, 7: 6
15th	July 10, 2005	Newport (3)	race	Vincent Spadea	7: 6, 2: 6, 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 24, 1993	Beijing	Carpet (i)	Michael Chang	6: 7, 7: 6, 4: 6
2.	May 22, 1995	Coral Springs	sand	Todd Woodbridge	4: 6, 2: 6
3.	February 3, 1997	Zagreb	Carpet (i)	Goran Ivanišević	6: 7, 6: 4, 6: 7
4th	February 17, 1997	San Jose	Hard court	Pete Sampras	6: 3, 0: 5 task
5.	September 8, 1997	US Open	Hard court	Patrick Rafter	3: 6, 2: 6, 6: 4, 5: 7
6th	October 13, 1997	Vienna	Carpet (i)	Goran Ivanišević	6: 3, 7: 6, 6: 7, 2: 6, 3: 6
7th	February 9, 1998	Split	Carpet (i)	Goran Ivanišević	6: 7, 6: 7
8th.	March 16, 1998	Indian Wells	Hard court	Marcelo Ríos	3: 6, 7: 6, 6: 7, 4: 6
9.	October 5, 1998	Toulouse	Hard court (i)	Jan Siemerink	4: 6, 4: 6
10.	March 1, 1999	London	Carpet (i)	Richard Krajicek	6: 7, 7: 6, 5: 7
11.	August 30, 1999	Boston	Hard court	Marat Safin	4: 6, 6: 7
12.	October 18, 2004	Moscow	Carpet (i)	Nikolai Davydenko	6: 3, 3: 6, 5: 7

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 10, 1994	Newport	race	Alexander Antonitsch	Kent Kinnear David Wheaton	6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 4
2.	September 15, 1996	Bournemouth	Hard court	Marc-Kevin Goellner	Rodolphe Gilbert Nuno Marques	6: 3, 7: 6
3.	February 28, 1999	London	Carpet (i)	Tim Henman	Byron Black Wayne Ferreira	6: 3, 7: 6

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 23, 1994	Vienna	Hard court (i)	Alexander Antonitsch	Mike Bauer David Rikl	6: 7, 4: 6
2.	March 12, 1996	Copenhagen	Carpet (i)	Guillaume Raoux	Mark Wedge Peter Nyborg	7: 6, 4: 6, 6: 7

Web links

Commons : Greg Rusedski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Greg Rusedski (English)
• ITF profile Greg Rusedski (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Greg Rusedski (English)
• BBC article

Individual evidence

1. ^ Doping - The most prominent doping cases in world tennis derstandard.at June 8, 2016
2. ↑ Jarkko Nieminen breaks Greg Rusedski's fastest win record in Miami. theguardian.com, March 21, 2014
3. ^ Greg Rusedski voted off Dancing on Ice , March 3, 2008, Raidió Teilifís Éireann