Zeeshan Ali

Zeeshan Ali
Nation:	India
Birthday:	January 1, 1970
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	66 kg
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Akhtar Ali
Prize money:	$ 45,664
singles
Career record:	4:13
Career title:	0
Highest ranking:	126 (December 12 1988)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	3: 7
Career title:	0
Highest ranking:	149 (November 14 1988)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Zeeshan Ali (born January 1, 1970 in Calcutta , West Bengal ) is a former Indian tennis player .

Life

Ali, whose father Akhtar Ali himself was a Davis Cup player and later team principal of the Indian Davis Cup team , began tennis later than ten years. In 1986 he reached the semifinals of the junior tournament at Wimbledon , the following year he stood at the side of Brett Steven in the double finals of the junior tournament of the US Open . In 1987 and 1988 he was Indian national tennis champion.

As a tennis professional, he could not build on the successes from his youth. In singles he did not achieve any notable result, in doubles he won three doubles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour between 1989 and 1990 . In the following years he mostly played in satellite tournaments; In the last years of his career he only played in tournaments in Dubai , where he regularly received wild cards , but was always eliminated in the first round. He reached his highest ranking in the tennis world rankings in 1988 with position 126 in singles and position 149 in doubles.

In the individual, he could only qualify once for a Grand Slam tournament, but was clearly defeated in 1989 at Wimbledon against Wally Masur . In the doubles competition he reached the second round in 1988 and 1989 on the side of Jonathan Canter .

Ali played nine singles and four doubles games for the Indian Davis Cup team between 1989 and 1994 . Of his individual encounters , he could only win one, namely the game against Hidehiko Tanizawa in a 4-1 win against Japan . His greatest success with the team was taking part in the semi-finals of the world group in 1993. There he played the last individual in the game against Australia , after India were already 4-0 down, and was clearly defeated by Jason Stoltenberg in two sets. His last Davis Cup appearance dates from 1994, in the game against the United States he clearly lost to Jim Courier and Todd Martin .

At the 1988 Summer Olympics , he competed in singles for India. After a first round win over Víctor Caballero from Paraguay , he was defeated by the Swiss Jakob Hlasek in the second round .

Tournament victories

Legend

Grand Slam

Tennis Masters Cup

ATP Masters Series

ATP International Series Gold

ATP International Series

ATP Challenger Tour (3)

Double

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	1989	Kuala Lumpur	Hard court	Steve Guy	Morten Christensen Peter Flintsoe	6: 4, 6: 4
2.	1989	Beijing	Hard court	Bruce Derlin	Brian Devening Craig Johnson	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	1990	Winnetka	Hard court	Menno Oosting	Doug Flach Luis-Enrique Herrera	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2

Web links

• ATP profile Zeeshan Ali (English)
• ITF Profile of Zeeshan Ali (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Zeeshan Ali (English)
• Zeeshan Ali in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )