Paul Chamberlin

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Paul Chamberlin Tennis player
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Birthday: March 26, 1962
Size: 178 cm
Weight: 73 kg
Playing hand: Right
Prize money: $ 410,831
singles
Career record: 57:66
Career title: 0
Highest ranking: 46 (January 1 1990)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 48:72
Career title: 1
Highest ranking: 61 (February 26 1990)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Paul Chamberlin (born March 26, 1962 in Toledo , Ohio ) is a retired American tennis player .

Life

Chamberlin won the national U18 indoor championship title in 1979. He attended the University of Arizona between 1981 and 1984 and was voted one of the top All-American selections in 1984 . From 1986 he played regularly on the ATP World Tour ; one of his first successes was the quarter-finals at the tournament in Tokyo in October of that year. He also played successfully on the ATP Challenger Tour , where he was three times in a single final between 1987 and 1989, but could not win any of them. In 1987 he won the double title at the Challenger tournament in Cherbourg with Leif Shiras . He celebrated the greatest success of his career in 1989 when he won the Bristol Turf tournament alongside Tim Wilkison . In the individual, his best result was the final in Johannesburg in 1989, where he lost in three sets to Christo van Rensburg . He reached his highest ranking in the tennis world rankings in 1990 with position 46 in singles and position 61 in doubles.

His best individual result at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the quarter-finals of Wimbledon in 1989. Benefiting from the draw, he initially didn't meet any of the top seeded players - Gary Muller , Thomas Högstedt , Nicholas Fulwood and Leif Shiras. In the quarterfinals, however, he met Boris Becker , against whom he only won three games in 1: 6, 2: 6 and 0: 6. In the doubles competition he reached the second round of the Australian Open twice ; He was also in mixed in the round of 16 of the French Open .

Tournament victories

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series (1)

Double

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Bottom line
1. 1989 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Bristol race United StatesUnited States Tim Wilkison United StatesUnited States Mike DePalmer Gary Donnelly
United StatesUnited States 
7: 6, 6: 4

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