Paul Rosner

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Paul Rosner
Country (sports) Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa
Residence Birmingham,
United States
Born (1972-12-11) 11 December 1972 (age 52)
Johannesburg, South Africa
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro1996
PlaysRight-handed
Prize money$232,555
Doubles
Career record42–68
Career titles1
Highest rankingNo. 62 (19 October 1998)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open 1R (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002)
French Open 1R (1998, 1999, 2002)
Wimbledon 3R (1998)
US Open 1R (1998, 2002)

Paul Rosner (born 11 December 1972) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.

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Career

From 1991 to 1995, Rosner competed in the United States, playing for University of Alabama at Birmingham in NCAA Men's Tennis Championship. He was an All-American on three occasions. [1]

A doubles specialist, Rosner won 11 men's tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour. He won one ATP World Tour title, at Bologna, Italy in 1998, with American Brandon Coupe. [2]

Rosner entered into the Men's doubles draw of 13 Grand Slams but only twice made it past the first round. The first time was in the 1998 Wimbledon Championships, when he and partner David DiLucia reached the second round, by defeating Nicolás Lapentti and Javier Sánchez in four sets. In the 1999 Wimbledon Championships he went further, this time partnering countryman Chris Haggard. The pair made the round of 16, after two straight sets victories, but then fell to Ellis Ferreira and Rick Leach. [3]

After he left the tour he became head coach of the tennis program at Birmingham–Southern College.

In 2011, he left Birmingham–Southern to become the Mountain Brook Club head tennis director.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

ResultW-LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0 Jun 1998 Bologna, ItalyClay Flag of the United States.svg Brandon Coupe Flag of Italy.svg Giorgio Galimberti
Flag of Italy.svg Massimo Valeri
7–6, 6–3

Challenger titles

Doubles: (11)

No.YearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
1.1996 Scheveningen, NetherlandsClay Flag of the United States.svg Brandon Coupe Flag of the Netherlands.svg Martijn Bok
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dennis van Scheppingen
6–1, 3–6, 6–0
2.1997 Fürth, GermanyClay Flag of the United States.svg Brandon Coupe Flag of Germany.svg Martin Sinner
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Joost Winnink
7–5, 6–3
3.1997 Braunschweig, GermanyClay Flag of the United States.svg Brandon Coupe Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (1992-2006).svg Nebojsa Djordjevic
Flag of Mexico.svg Óscar Ortiz
6–4, 6–3
4.1998 Budapest, HungaryClay Flag of South Africa.svg Chris Haggard Flag of Argentina.svg Diego del Río
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Grant Silcock
6–4, 6–2
5.2000 Bratislava, SlovakiaHard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Paul Hanley Flag of Israel.svg Jonathan Erlich
Flag of North Macedonia.svg Aleksandar Kitinov
6–4, 6–4
6.2001 Bucharest, RomaniaClay Flag of the Bahamas.svg Mark Merklein Flag of Romania.svg Ionuț Moldovan
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Yuri Schukin
6–4, 6–4
7.2001 Houston, United StatesHard Flag of South Africa.svg Jeff Coetzee Flag of South Africa.svg Justin Bower
Flag of South Africa.svg Shaun Rudman
7–6(7–2), 6–4
8.2001 Tyler, United StatesHard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Stephen Huss Flag of the United States.svg Mardy Fish
Flag of the United States.svg Jeff Morrison
6–4, 6–2
9.2002 Hamburg, GermanyCarpet Flag of the Bahamas.svg Mark Merklein Flag of South Africa.svg Wesley Moodie
Flag of South Africa.svg Shaun Rudman
6–3, 6–4
10.2002 Calabasas, United StatesHard Flag of the United States.svg Glenn Weiner Flag of the United States.svg Justin Gimelstob
Flag of the United States.svg Paul Goldstein
6–2, 4–6, 7–6(7–4)
11.2002 Córdoba, SpainHard Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Ota Fukárek Flag of Spain.svg Emilio Benfele Álvarez
Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (1992-2006).svg Dušan Vemić
7–6(9–7), 6–4

References

  1. Profile on Birmingham-Southern Website [ permanent dead link ]
  2. ATP World Tour Profile
  3. ITF Tennis Profile