Kendrick started playing tennis when he was five. He graduated from Bullard High School in Fresno in 1997, where he won the Section Championship with the team in 1996. He studied at the University of Washington and Pepperdine University , where he also played college tennis .
He played on the ATP World Tour from 1999 and was considered one of the last serve and volley players . His highest world ranking positions were 69th in July 2009 in singles and 77th in February 2008 in doubles. In his career, he has earned just over $ 1.3 million in prize money. Although he did not win a title
Kendrick's biggest surprise of his career was at Wimbledon when he had to admit defeat in five sets in the second round in 2006 to the then world number two Rafael Nadal . Thereby he reached the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time. In addition, he won his only World Tour title in Newport . With his partner Jürgen Melzer , he won the double competition.
In the following years he was able to establish himself on the professional tour to some extent, before he received most of his points from matches on the ATP Challenger Tour from 2010 onwards . There he won 19 titles in his career, 10 of them in singles.
At the French Open in 2011, Kendrick tested positive for the doping agent methylhexanamine and was then banned by the ITF for one year. Kendrick, who said he had only taken the drug to fight jet lag, then went to the CAS to shorten the ban to three months. He achieved a reduction in the sentence to eight months. In 2011 he was still not eligible to start at the US Open .
He ended his career in 2012, but returned to the tour for a match in 2013 and 2014. His last appearance was in March 2014 at the Masters tournament in Indian Wells in qualifying.
successes
Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals
ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 Series
ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 Series (1)
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United States
Daniel Melo
Wesley Whitehouse
Cecil Mamiit
Puebla
Leonardo Mayer
Benedict Dorsch
Somdev Devvarman
Jürgen Melzer
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Bermuda
Mark Merklein
Ashley Fisher Andrew Kratzmann
Harel Levy Sam Warburg
Lee Hyung-taik Uladsimir Waltschkou
