Russell Barlow

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Russell Barlow
Full nameRussell Barlow
Country (sports)Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Born (1962-12-18) 18 December 1962 (age 61)
Toowoomba, Queensland
PlaysLeft-handed
Prize money$61,805
Singles
Career record3–9
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 175 (9 October 1989)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open 1R (1988)
Doubles
Career record10–42
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 118 (6 April 1987)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open 2R (1985)
French Open 1R (1987)
Wimbledon 1R (1987)

Russell Barlow (born 18 December 1962) is a former professional tennis player from Australia.

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Biography

Barlow, a left-handed player from Toowoomba, twice finished runner-up at the Australian Junior Championships, in the Under-14s and Under-16s age groups. He made the quarter-finals of the boys' event at the 1980 Australian Open. [1]

During the 1980s, Barlow competed professionally on the international circuit. He had Grand Prix wins over Kim Warwick at the GWA Mazda Tennis Classic in Brisbane in 1983, Wojciech Fibak in the 1985 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse and Magnus Gustafsson, seventh seed at the 1988 Donnay Indoor Championships in Brussels. [2] [3] [4] At the 1988 Australian Open he qualified for the main draw of a Grand Slam for the only time and lost in the first round to West German Carl-Uwe Steeb. [5]

As a doubles player his best result came when he made the semi-finals with Carl Limberger at Bordeaux in 1985. He played doubles at the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon Championships. In 1987, his only appearance at Wimbledon, he and partner Harald Rittersbacher were drawn against top seeds Guy Forget and Yannick Noah in the opening round. [6]

In 1989 he won two Challenger titles, the first at Croydon, in the doubles event with Swede Ville Jansson. He then claimed the singles title at Singapore, over Neil Borwick in the final, just weeks after he finished runner-up to the same player in Kuala Lumpur. [7]

A member of the ATP board in the 1990s, Barlow also worked as an ATP executive in Montreal. [8] [9] He is now involved in coaching. [10]

Challenger titles

Singles: (1)

No.YearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
1.1989 Singapore Hard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Neil Borwick 7–6, 4–6, 6–3

Doubles: (1)

No.YearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
1.1989 Croydon, Great BritainCarpet Flag of Sweden.svg Ville Jansson Flag of the United States.svg Mike De Palmer
Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg Byron Talbot 		2–6, 6–3, 7–5

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References

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