Justin Gimelstob

Justin Gimelstob

Justin Gimelstob 2015

Nation:

United States

Birthday:

January 26, 1977

Size:

196 cm

Weight:

88 kg

1st professional season:

1996

Resignation:

2007

Playing hand:

Right, one-handed backhand

Trainer:

Brandon Coupe

Prize money:

$ 2,575,522

singles

Career record:

107: 172

Highest ranking:

63 (April 19 1999)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	2R (1999)
French Open	1R (1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007)
Wimbledon	3R (2000, 2003, 2005)
US Open	3R (1997, 1999)

Double

Career record:

174: 158

Career title:

13

Highest ranking:

18 (May 8, 2000)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	HF (2001)
French Open	1R (1997-2000, 2003, 2006, 2007)
Wimbledon	VF (1998, 2004)
US Open	AF (1999, 2004, 2007)

Mixed

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 2

Australian Open	S (1998)
French Open	S (1998)
Wimbledon	HF (1998)
US Open	HF (2002, 2006)

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

Justin Gimelstob (born January 26, 1977 in Livingston , New Jersey ) is a retired American tennis player .

Career

He graduated from Newark Academy in 1995 and became a professional tennis player the following year. He won his first double title in 1997 in Newport and in the same year the Hopman Cup alongside Chanda Rubin . At the side of Venus Williams , he won the mixed at the Australian Open and French Open in 1998 . With 63rd place, he achieved his highest single placement on April 9, 1999. In 2006 he lost the ATP final in Newport against Mark Philippoussis .

His 13th participation in the US Open was also his last. He ended his career in October 2007. In 2009 he played one-time alongside Jesse Levine at the Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport .

In June 2008, Gimelstob made negative headlines when, in the run-up to a mixed show match against Anna Kurnikowa , he insulted her as a "slut" who he wanted to "hammer a serve right in the stomach", and players like Nicole Vaidišová , Tatiana Golovin and Alizé Cornet chauvinistically called "sex bombs" that would be too stupid for school and had "no social skills". Gimelstob, who was fined by the WTA , later apologized for his derailments.

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold (2)
ATP International Series (11)

Title after covering
Hard Court (8)
Sand (1)
Grass (3)
Carpet (1)

singles

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 14, 1996	United States Newport	race	Venezuela 1954 Nicolás Pereira	6: 4, 4: 6, 4: 6

Double

Victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 13, 1997	United States Newport	race	New Zealand Brett Steven	United States Kent Kinnear Aleksandar Kitinov North Macedonia	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	June 21, 1998	United Kingdom Nottingham (1)	race	United States Brian MacPhie	Canada Daniel Nestor Sébastien Lareau Canada	7: 5, 6: 7, 6: 4
3.	March 7, 1999	United States Scottsdale	Hard court	United States Richey Reneberg	Bahamas Mark Knowles Sandon Stolle Australia	6: 4, 6: 7 ⁴ , 6: 3
4th	May 2, 1999	United States Atlanta	sand	United States Patrick Galbraith	Australia Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde Australia	5: 7, 7: 6, 6: 3
5.	June 20, 1999	United Kingdom Nottingham (2)	race	United States Patrick Galbraith	South Africa Marius Barnard Brent Haygarth South Africa	5: 7, 7: 5, 6: 3
6th	August 22, 1999	United States Washington DC	Hard court	Canada Sébastien Lareau	South Africa David Adams John-Laffnie de Jager South Africa	7: 5, 6: 7 ² , 6: 3
7th	November 14, 1999	Russia Moscow	Carpet (i)	Czech Republic Daniel Vacek	Ukraine Andrij Medvedev Marat Safin Russia	6: 2, 6: 1
8th.	February 20, 2000	United States Memphis	Hard court	Canada Sébastien Lareau	United States Jim Grabb Richey Reneberg United States	6: 2, 6: 4
9.	September 17, 2000	Uzbekistan Tashkent	Hard court	United States Scott Humphries	South Africa Marius Barnard Robbie Koenig South Africa	6: 3, 6: 2
10.	October 5, 2003	Japan Tokyo	Hard court	Germany Nicolas Kiefer	United States Scott Humphries Mark Merklein Bahamas	6: 7 ⁶ , 6: 3, 7: 6 ⁴
11.	September 19, 2004	China People's Republic Beijing (1)	Hard court	United States Graydon Oliver	United States Alex Bogomolov junior Taylor Dent United States	4: 6, 6: 4, 7: 6 ⁶
12.	October 3, 2004	Thailand Bangkok	Hard court	United States Graydon Oliver	Switzerland Yves Allegro Roger Federer Switzerland	5: 7, 6: 4, 6: 4
13.	September 18, 2005	China People's Republic Beijing (2)	Hard court	Australia Nathan Healey	Russia Dmitri Tursunow Mikhail Juschny Russia	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 20, 1997	Japan Tokyo	Hard court	Australia Patrick Rafter	Czech Republic Martin Damm Daniel Vacek Czech Republic	6: 2, 2: 6, 6: 7
2.	April 16, 2000	United States Atlanta	Hard court	Bahamas Mark Knowles	South Africa Ellis Ferreira Rick Leach United States	3: 6, 4: 6
3.	May 7, 2000	United States Orlando	sand	Canada Sébastien Lareau	India Leander Paes Jan Siemerink Netherlands	3: 6, 4: 6
4th	July 28, 2002	United States los Angeles	Hard court	France Michaël Llodra	France Sébastien Grosjean Nicolas Kiefer Germany	4: 6, 4: 6
5.	July 16, 2006	United States Newport	race	South Africa Jeff Coetzee	United States Robert Kendrick Jürgen Melzer Austria	6: 7 ³ , 0: 6

Web links

Commons : Justin Gimelstob - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ My last hurray After 13 US Open appearances, the end has arrived ( Memento from June 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
^ Tennis official Justin Gimelstob serves up sexist rant against top female players , www.telegraph.co.uk, June 27, 2008; Relevant passages: "In a radio interview, the 31-year-old American lashed out at Anna Kurnikowa, calling her a bitch ... Rounding off his barrage of insults, he added, 'Female tennis players lack the social skills - they don 't go to high school, they don't go to parties.' ... He labeled France's Tatiana Golovin, ranked 21 in the world, a 'sexpot', described the Czech Nicole Vaidisova, seeded 18th at Wimbledon, as' a well developed young lady 'and called France's Alize Cornet, number 17,' a little sexpot '... He was venomous in his attack on the Russian Miss Kournikova:' She's a bitch ... I just despise her to the maximum level just below hate. ' He said he wanted to hit her hard in the midriff when serving at her. "

personal data
SURNAME	Gimelstob, Justin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	January 26, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Livingston , United States

[1] My last hurray After 13 US Open appearances, the end has arrived ( Memento from June 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Tennis official Justin Gimelstob serves up sexist rant against top female players , www.telegraph.co.uk, June 27, 2008; Relevant passages: "In a radio interview, the 31-year-old American lashed out at Anna Kurnikowa, calling her a bitch ... Rounding off his barrage of insults, he added, 'Female tennis players lack the social skills - they don 't go to high school, they don't go to parties.' ... He labeled France's Tatiana Golovin, ranked 21 in the world, a 'sexpot', described the Czech Nicole Vaidisova, seeded 18th at Wimbledon, as' a well developed young lady 'and called France's Alize Cornet, number 17,' a little sexpot '... He was venomous in his attack on the Russian Miss Kournikova:' She's a bitch ... I just despise her to the maximum level just below hate. ' He said he wanted to hit her hard in the midriff when serving at her. "