Murphy Jensen

Murphy Jensen
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	October 30, 1968
Size:	193 cm
Weight:	82 kg
1st professional season:	1991
Playing hand:	Left
Prize money:	$ 681,817
singles
Career record:	0: 5
Highest ranking:	568 (January 11 1993)
Double
Career record:	125: 179
Career title:	4th
Highest ranking:	17 (October 18 1993)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Murphy Jensen (born October 30, 1968 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is a retired American tennis player .

Life

Jensen attended the University of Southern California like his brother Luke and became a professional tennis player in 1991. In the same year he won his first two Challenger titles in doubles, winning the tournament in Hong Kong alongside his brother Luke. In 1993 the brothers surprisingly won the French Open by beating Marc-Kevin Goellner and David Prinosil in the final . His brother had been successful on the ATP World Tour with alternating partners since 1988 , from 1993 they played together and achieved three more tournament victories. They were also together in a final seven times. He reached his highest ranking in the tennis world rankings in 1993 with position 568 in singles and in 1993 with position 17 in doubles.

His best single result in a Grand Slam tournament was the victory in doubles at the French Open in 1993. He won against the German doubles of Marc-Kevin Goellner and David Prinosil alongside his brother Murphy .

Jensen has a son with actress Robin Givens , with whom he was dating in the late 1990s. He works as the coach of the Washington Kastles in the US World TeamTennis league . He was also presenter of the talk show Open Access on the Tennis Channel in 2004 , in which he hosted Richard Branson and Donald Trump, among others . In 2006 he interviewed various tennis professionals in Murphy's Guide . He also appeared in the comedy film Wimbledon - Game, Set and ... Love on the side of Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany as Ivan Dragomir .

successes

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

Title after covering Hard Court (2) Sand (1) Grass (1) Carpet (0)

Double

Victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	June 7, 1993	French Open	sand	Luke Jensen	Marc-Kevin Goellner David Prinosil	6: 4, 6: 7, 6: 4
2.	June 26, 1995	Nottingham	race	Luke Jensen	Patrick Galbraith Danie Visser	6: 3, 5: 7, 6: 4
3.	August 26, 1996	long Island	Hard court	Luke Jensen	Hendrik Dreekmann Alexander Volkov	6: 3, 7: 6
4th	July 21, 1997	Washington	Hard court	Luke Jensen	Neville Godwin Fernon Wibier	6: 4, 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	January 18, 1993	Sydney	Hard court	Luke Jensen	Sandon Stolle Jason Stoltenberg	3: 6, 4: 6
2.	May 24, 1993	Bologna	sand	Luke Jensen	Danie Visser Laurie Warder	6: 4, 4: 6, 4: 6
3.	October 18, 1993	Tokyo	carpet	Luke Jensen	Grant Connell Patrick Galbraith	3: 6, 4: 6
4th	February 28, 1994	Mexico city	sand	Luke Jensen	Francisco Montana Bryan Shelton	3: 6, 4: 6
5.	September 19, 1994	Bogotá	sand	Luke Jensen	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	4: 6, 6: 7
6th	May 12, 1997	Coral Springs	sand	Luke Jensen	Dave Randall Greg Van Emburgh	7: 6, 2: 6, 6: 7
7th	May 26, 1997	St. Polten	sand	Luke Jensen	Kelly Jones Scott Melville	2: 6, 6: 7

Web links

Commons : Murphy Jensen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile Murphy Jensen (English)
• ITF profile Murphy Jensen (English)
• Murphy Jensen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official Homepage (English)