Louis Gloria

Last updated

Louis Gloria
Country (sports) Flag of the United States.svg United States
Residence Orange, Connecticut
Born (1969-04-15) April 15, 1969 (age 51)
New Haven, Connecticut
Height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Turned pro1991
PlaysLeft-handed
Prize money$158,068
Singles
Career record5–19
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 177 (November 14, 1994)
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon 2R (1995)
Doubles
Career record1-4
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 349 (October 11, 1993)

Louis "Lou" Gloria (born April 15, 1969) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. [1]

Contents

Career

Gloria played collegiate tennis for the University of South Carolina and was an All-American in 1991. [2]

He won the Brunei Challenger tournament in 1992, which would remain his only Challenger title. [2]

In 1994, Gloria had his best year on the ATP Tour, making the second round of three tournaments, the Lipton Championships, EA Generali Open and the Japan Open. [2]

His only Grand Slam main draw appearance came at the 1995 Wimbledon Championships, where he defeated German Jörn Renzenbrink in a five-set opening round match. [3] He lost in the second round to Alexander Volkov of Russia, also in five sets. [2]

Challenger titles

Singles: (1)

No.YearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
1.1992 Brunei Hard Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Daniel Nestor 6–3, 2–6, 6–2

Related Research Articles

Jimmy Connors American tennis player

James Scott Connors is a retired American world No. 1 tennis player. He held the top Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from 1974 to 1977 and a career total of 268 weeks.

Ivo Karlović Croatian tennis player

Ivo Karlović is a Croatian professional tennis player. He has won eight ATP singles titles between 2007 and 2016. Karlović's height of 211 cm makes him the joint tallest ranked tennis player in history, along with Reilly Opelka.

Raemon Sluiter Dutch tennis player

Raemon Sluiter is a Dutch former professional tennis player and current coach. His career-high ATP singles ranking is World No. 46, achieved in February 2003. Though he achieved only limited success during his professional career, Sluiter reached four ATP finals in his native Netherlands, and also reached the semi-finals of the Davis Cup with the Dutch team in 2001.

Donald Young (tennis) American tennis player

Donald Oliver Young Jr. is an American professional tennis player.

Dmitry Tursunov Russian tennis coach and former tennis player

Dmitry Igorevich Tursunov is a retired Russian tennis player and current tennis coach. He was 12 years old when he arrived to the United States to train and further his prospects of becoming a professional player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 20, achieved in October 2006.

Rajeev Ram American tennis player

Rajeev Ram is an American professional tennis player.

Marcel Granollers Spanish tennis player

Marcel Granollers Pujol is a tennis player from Spain who turned professional in 2003. He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 19 in July 2012, and his highest doubles ranking of World No. 4 in February 2013. Granollers has won four ATP singles titles and 16 doubles titles, including the 2012 ATP World Tour Finals. His brother Gerard is also a tennis player, and they have won five Challenger doubles titles together.

Ričardas Berankis Lithuanian tennis player

Ričardas Berankis is a Lithuanian professional tennis player and a prominent member of the Lithuania Davis Cup team. He is the first and only Lithuanian to enter the ATP top 50 making him the highest ranked Lithuanian tennis player of all time. Berankis has reached two finals on the ATP World Tour, at the Los Angeles Open in 2012 and Kremlin Cup in 2017.

Igor Sijsling Dutch tennis player

Igor Sijsling is a Dutch professional tennis player. He is coached by Dennis Schenk. Sijsling reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 52 on 17 February 2014. His biggest accomplishment is reaching the final of Australian Open Doubles with countryman Robin Haase in 2013, where they lost to the Bryan Brothers. In singles, he reached the third round of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships and has victories over top players including Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Milos Raonic and Mikhail Youzhny.

Marinko Matosevic Australian tennis player

Marinko Matosevic is a retired Australian professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 39, which he achieved in February 2013. Matosevic has defeated top players including Milos Raonic, Marin Čilić, Nikolay Davydenko, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and John Isner.

Paolo Lorenzi Italian tennis player

Paolo Lorenzi is an Italian professional tennis player. Lorenzi is coached by Claudio Galoppini.

Tatsuma Ito Japanese tennis player

Tatsuma Ito is a Japanese professional tennis player. He has won 6 Challenger tournaments and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 60 in October 2012. Ito reached the quarterfinals of 's-Hertogenbosch and Moscow in 2012 and Newport and Bogota in 2015.

Steve Johnson (tennis) American tennis player

Steve "Stevie" Johnson Jr. is an American professional tennis player. For one week in August 2016 he was the top-ranked American in men's singles. He has a career-high ranking of world No. 21. He has won four ATP Challenger Tour titles and four ATP Tour 250 titles, one at Nottingham on grass, twice at Houston on clay and most recently at Newport on grass. He won a bronze medal in men's doubles at the 2016 Olympics with Jack Sock.

Jörn Renzenbrink is a retired professional tennis player from Germany.

Guido Pella Argentine tennis player

Guido Pella is an Argentine professional tennis player. In August 2019, Pella reached his career best world rank No. 20 in singles. In July 2019, he peaked at world rank No. 55 in doubles.

Tennys Sandgren American tennis player

Tennys Sandgren II is an American professional tennis player who broke into the Top 100 of the ATP rankings toward the end of 2017 after competing mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour for many years. Born and raised in Gallatin, Tennessee, he played two years of college tennis at the University of Tennessee before launching his professional career.

Lucas Pouille French tennis player

Lucas Pouille is a French professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 62 in the ATP singles rankings. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 10, attained on 19 March 2018. He has won 5 singles titles on the ATP Tour and won the Davis Cup with France in 2017.

The 2013 ATP Challenger Tour Finals is a tennis tournament played at the Sociedade Harmonia de Tênis in São Paulo, Brazil, between 13 and 17 November 2013. It will be the third edition of the event.

Taro Daniel Japanese tennis player

Taro Daniel is an American-born Japanese professional tennis player who has won five ATP Challenger Tour singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 64 on 27 August 2018, in part due to winning his first title at the 2018 Istanbul Open on 6 May 2018 as well as strong results throughout the back end of the season.

Yoshihito Nishioka Japanese tennis player

Yoshihito Nishioka is a Japanese tennis player. He has won one ATP Tour singles title and achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 48 on 24 February 2020.

References

  1. ITF Pro Circuit Profile
  2. 1 2 3 4 ATP World Tour Profile
  3. Providence Journal , "Ex-Connecticut champion grabs a win", June 27, 1995