Taylor Dent

Taylor Dent

Nation:

United States

Birthday:

April 24, 1981

Size:

188 cm

Weight:

88 kg

1st professional season:

1998

Resignation:

2010

Playing hand:

Right

Prize money:

$ 2,563,378

singles

Career record:

151: 140

Career title:

4th

Highest ranking:

21 (August 8, 2005)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	3R (2002, 2004, 2005)
French Open	2R (2010)
Wimbledon	AF (2005)
US Open	AF (2003)

Double

Career record:

16:37

Highest ranking:

170 (August 20, 2001)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	-
French Open	1R (2003, 2004)
Wimbledon	-
US Open	2R (2000)

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

Taylor Phillip Dent (born April 24, 1981 in Newport Beach , California ) is a retired American tennis player .

Career

Taylor Dent began his professional career in 1998. After some successes at smaller tournaments, he won his first title on the ATP Tour on July 7, 2002 in Newport . His most successful year was 2003, in which he won three more titles. In 2004 he reached the final in Tokyo , but lost to Jiří Novák 7: 5, 1: 6, 3: 6. He took two more finals in 2005 in Indianapolis and Adelaide . In 2004 he reached the finals of Beijing together with Alex Bogomolov junior in the doubles competition .

For the US Davis Cup team , he played in the 2003 season in the encounter against Croatia in a single game, which he lost to Mario Ančić with 1: 2.

In 2010 Dent set new tournament records at both the French Open and Wimbledon with service speeds of 240 km / h and 238 km / h, respectively. At the end of the 2010 season he ended his professional career.

Private life

Taylor Dent is the son of 1974 Australian Open finalist Phil Dent . On December 8, 2006, he married tennis player Jennifer Hopkins .

successes

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series
ATP Challenger Tour (4)

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

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 7, 2002	United States Newport	race	United States James Blake	6: 1, 4: 6, 6: 4
2.	February 17, 2003	United States Memphis	Hard court	United States Andy Roddick	6: 1, 6: 4
3.	September 22, 2003	Thailand Bangkok	Hard court	Spain Juan Carlos Ferrero	6: 3, 7: 6 ⁵
4th	September 29, 2003	Russia Moscow	carpet	Armenia Sargis Sargsian	7: 6 ⁵ , 6: 4

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 8, 2001	United Kingdom Surbiton	race	South Africa Neville Godwin	4: 6, 7: 6 ³ , 6: 2
2.	September 20, 2009	United States Tulsa	Hard court	United States Wayne Odesnik	7: 6 ⁹ , 7: 6 ⁴
3.	November 14, 2009	United States Knoxville	Hard court (i)	Serbia Ilija Bozoljac	6: 3, 7: 6 ⁶

Final participation

No	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 10, 2004	Japan Tokyo	Hard court	Czech Republic Jiří Novák	7: 5, 1: 6, 3: 6
2.	January 3, 2005	Australia Adelaide	Hard court	Sweden Joachim Johansson	5: 7, 3: 6
3.	July 24, 2005	United States Indianapolis	Hard court	United States Robby Ginepri	6: 4, 0: 6, 0: 3 task

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	December 3, 2000	United States Urbana	Hard court (i)	United States Mardy Fish	Israel Noam Behr Michael Russell United States	without a fight

Web links

Commons : Taylor Dent - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ John Grasso: Historical dictionary of tennis. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md. a.] 2011, ISBN 978-0-8108-7237-0 , p. 83 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Dent, Taylor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dent, Taylor Phillip (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH	Newport Beach , California , United States

[1] John Grasso: Historical dictionary of tennis. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md. a.] 2011, ISBN 978-0-8108-7237-0 , p. 83 ( digitized version )