Tommy Paul (tennis player)

Tommy Paul
Tommy Paul in London 2016
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	May 17, 1997
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	82 kg
1st professional season:	2015
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Diego Moyano
Prize money:	$ 684,920
singles
Career record:	11:15
Highest ranking:	81 (September 30, 2019)
Current placement:	81
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	2: 5
Highest ranking:	284 (December 24, 2018)
Current placement:	586
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: September 30, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Tommy Paul (born May 17, 1997 in Voorhees Township , New Jersey ) is an American tennis player .

Life

Personal

Tommy Paul grew up in Greenville , North Carolina after the family moved there when he was three months old. His parents got him excited about playing tennis. Andy Roddick was his tennis idol growing up. He has a brother and a sister.

Career

Paul's greatest success so far is the success at the 2015 French Open for Juniors, where he prevailed against Taylor Harry Fritz in the final . In the same year he was in the junior final of the US Open . Here he was defeated by Fritz in three sentences.

On the professional tour, Paul mainly plays on the ITF Future Tour and ATP Challenger Tour . So far, he has won six individual titles on the Future Tour. He won his first Challenger title in January 2018 in Playford City on the side of Mackenzie McDonald in doubles.

Paul prefers to play on clay, on which he won both the French Open junior title and his four future titles.

It had its premiere at a Grand Slam tournament in 2015 at the US Open , where he lost in three sets to Andreas Seppi . He celebrated his first victory on the ATP World Tour in 2016 in Houston against Paolo Lorenzi .

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

ATP World Tour Finals

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP World Tour 500

ATP World Tour 250

ATP Challenger Tour (6)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	4th November 2018	Charlottesville	Hard court (i)	Peter Polansky	6: 2, 6: 2
2.	April 21, 2019	Sarasota	sand	Tennys Sandgren	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	September 8, 2019	New Haven	Hard court	Marcos Giron	6: 3, 6: 3
3.	29th September 2019	Tiburon	Hard court	Thanasi Kokkinakis	7: 5, 6: 7 3 , 6: 4

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 6, 2018	Playford City	Hard court	Mackenzie McDonald	Maverick Banes Jason Kubler	7: 6 4 , 6: 4
2.	23rd September 2018	Columbus	Hard court (i)	Peter Polansky	Gonzalo Escobar Roberto Quiroz	6: 3, 6: 3

Web links

Commons : Tommy Paul  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Tommy Paul (English)
• ITF profile Tommy Paul (English)