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Greg Rusedski

Country	United Kingdom
Residence	London, UK
Date of birth	September 6, 1973
Place of birth	Montreal, Canada
Height	6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
Weight	200 lb (90 kg)
Turned Pro	1991
Retired	7th April 2007
Plays	Left
Career Prize Money	US$8,944,841
Singles
Career record:	436 - 287
Career titles:	15
Highest ranking:	4 (October 6, 1997)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4r (2001)
French Open	4r (1999)
Wimbledon	QF (1997)
U.S. Open	F (1997)
Doubles
Career record:	62 - 53
Career titles:	3
Highest ranking:	63 (June 19, 1995)
Infobox last updated on: April 7, 2007.

Gregory "Greg" Rusedski (born September 6, 1973, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former British tennis player who turned professional in 1991, and played until his retirement on April 7, 2007 at the age of 33.

Contents 1 Background 2 Career summary 3 Rusedski vs. Henman 4 Controversies 5 Grand Slam singles finals 5.1 Runner-up (1) 6 Masters Series singles finals 6.1 Wins (1) 6.2 Runner-up (1) 7 ATP Tour titles (18) 7.1 Singles (15) 7.2 Doubles (3) 8 ATP Tour runner-ups (14) 8.1 Singles (12) 8.2 Doubles (2) 9 Performance Timeline 10 Media career 11 References 12 External links

Rusedski was born in Canada to a British mother and a German-Canadian father. His brother William is a multifaceted contemporary painter in Canada. Greg was a very promising junior player in Canada in the 1980's and subsequently caused some anger in Canada when he decided to adopt British citizenship and play for Britain in 1995 [1]. Rusedski has been with Lucy Connor for 13 years; they married in a Roman Catholic ceremony at Douai Abbey in England in 1999.

His best tournament results were reaching the final of the US Open (tennis) in 1997, where he lost to Pat Rafter by three sets to one, (shortly thereafter reaching his career high rank of World No. 4), and winning the Grand Slam Cup in 1999. He held the record for the fastest recorded serve at 149 mph (239.7 km/h), although this has since been beaten by Andy Roddick.

In 1997, Greg won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. However, his career has never reached such heights again and the next year fellow Briton Tim Henman eclipsed Rusedski as Britain's number one tennis player in both ranking and popularity.

Rusedski was defeated in the second round of Wimbledon 2005 by Joachim Johansson of Sweden 6-7 (10-12) 6-3 4-6 6-7 (7-5).

Following the disappointment at Wimbledon, Rusedski went on the have a successful few weeks in July 2005. First he defended his title at the Hall of Fame Championship in Newport, Rhode Island, beating Vince Spadea in the final. This was a great win for Rusedski as it was the first time he successfully defended a title and the third time he had won the championship; his win there in 1993 was his first ever tour title. He then went on to reach the semi-finals at both the RCA Championships in Indianapolis, being beaten by Taylor Dent, and the Canada Masters Series Tournament in Montreal, losing to Andre Agassi.

Towards the end of the season in 2005, Rusedski had risen back up to a ranking in the high thirties. A poor end to the season by Tim Henman meant Rusedski had almost played well enough throughout the season to overtake him as British number one again. But a defeat for Rusedski in the first round of the Challenger Event in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, left him ranked 38th, just one place short of regaining the British top spot. Rusedski finally reclaimed his British number one spot on the 15 May 2006, after managing to overtake Andy Murray by getting to the 3rd round of the Rome Masters Event. But later lost it on the 10 July after a poor 1st round exit at Wimbledon.

On April 7, 2007, he offically retired from tennis after partnering Jamie Murray to doubles victory over the Netherlands in a Davis Cup match, a result which gave Great Britain a winning 3-0 lead in the tie. He announced his retirement immediately after the win, during a live interview with Sue Barker on BBC Television.^[1]

Rusdeski will stay in tennis after his retirement, acting as a coach to children and also as a pundit for Eurosport and Sky Sports' tennis coverage.

Overall, Rusedski has won more singles titles than compatriot Tim Henman, with 15 singles titles compared to Henman's 11; however, according to lifelong Henman fan and unofficial biographer Peter Butler, his Grand Slam record is less impressive, as he has never made it past the fourth round of the French or Australian Open. Nonetheless, Rusedski has been seen as being often overshadowed in the press by the popular Henman, especially at Wimbledon [2]. However, his continuing participation in the Davis Cup, most notably his single-handed win over Israel, and his heroic comeback from the near-wilderness, has led him to become more popular in recent months and emerge from the shadow of Henman.

His career has featured some controversies. His temper has gotten him into trouble on several occasions. For example, in the 1999 US Open, Rusedski's temper caused him to squander a lead against Todd Martin and lose the fourth round match; notable about that match was Rusedski losing 14-plus consecutive points during the fifth set. Rusedski had made derogatory comments about Henman after a loss to his fellow Briton during the 2002 season. In the US Open of that year, after being dispatched by Pete Sampras in the fourth round after a gruelling 5-set match, Rusedski made unsportsmanlike comments, calling Sampras "a half-step slow", and predicted that Sampras would lose his quarter-final to young German star Tommy Haas. Sampras however went on to win the tournament. In the 2003 Wimbledon, during the second round, Rusedski swore at the umpire after not being allowed to replay a point after fan interference, losing his temper and ultimately losing the match to Andy Roddick 7-6 7-6 7-5.

Greg Rusedski has been plagued by injuries in recent seasons. He also tested positive for nandrolone in January 2004, but was cleared of the charges in a hearing on 10 March 2004.

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1997	U.S. Open	Patrick Rafter	6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1998	Paris	Pete Sampras	6-3, 7-6, 6-4

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1998	Indian Wells	Marcelo Rios	6-3, 6-7(15), 7-6(4), 6-4

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	July 1993	Newport, USA	Grass	Javier Frana	7-5, 6-7, 7-6
2.	April 1995	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Lars Rehmann	6-4, 3-1
3.	Oct 1996	Beijing, China	Hard	Martin Damm	7-6, 6-4
4.	June 1997	Nottingham, Great Britain	Grass	Karol Kučera	6-4, 7-5
5.	Oct 1997	Basel, Switzerland	Carpet	Mark Philippoussis	6-3, 7-6, 7-6
6.	Feb 1998	Antwerp, Belgium	Hard	Marc Rosset	7-6, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
7.	Oct 1998	Paris, France	Carpet (I)	Pete Sampras	6-4, 7-6, 6-3
8.	Sep 1999	Grand Slam Cup, Germany	Carpet	Tommy Haas	6-3, 6-4, 6-7, 7-6
9.	Oct 1999	Vienna, Austria	Carpet	Nicolas Kiefer	6-7, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4
10.	Feb 2001	San José, USA	Hard	Andre Agassi	6-3, 6-4
11.	Jan 2002	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Jerome Golmard	6-7, 6-4, 7-5
12.	Aug 2002	Indianapolis, USA	Hard	Felix Mantilla	6-7, 6-4, 6-4
13.	June 2003	Nottingham, Great Britain	Grass	Mardy Fish	6-3, 6-2
14	July 2004	Newport, USA	Grass	Alexander Popp	7-6, 7-6
15.	July 2005	Newport, USA	Grass	Vincent Spadea	7-6, 2-6, 6-4

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	1995	Newport, USA	Grass	Alen Antonisch, Austria	Kent Kinnear, USA and David Wheaton, USA	6-4 3-6 6-4
2.	1996	Bournemouth, Great Britain	Hard	Marc-Kevin Gollener, Germany	Rodolphe Gilbert, France and Nuno Marques,Portugal	6-3 7-6
3.	1999	London, Great Britain	Carpet	Tim Henman, Great Britain	Byron Black, Zimbabwe and Wayne Ferreira, South Africa	6-3 7-6

• 1993: Beijing, lost to Michael Chang.
• 1995: Coral Springs, lost to Todd Woodbridge.
• 1997: Zagreb, lost to Goran Ivanišević.
• 1997: San Jose, lost to Pete Sampras.
• 1997: U.S. Open lost to Pat Rafter.
• 1997: Vienna, lost to Ivanišević.
• 1998: Split, lost to Ivanišević.
• 1998: Indian Wells, lost to Marcelo Ríos.
• 1998: Toulouse, lost to Jan Siemerink.
• 1999: London, lost to Richard Krajicek.
• 1999: Boston , lost to Marat Safin.
• 2004: Moscow , lost to Nikolay Davydenko.

• 1994 Vienna with Alex Antonisch, lost to Mike Bauer, USA and David Rikl, Czech Republic
• 2000 Copenhagen with Guillame Raoux, lost to Mark Keil, USA and Peter Nyborg, Sweden

Tournament	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997	1996	1995	1994	1993	Career
Australian Open	-	2r	1r	-	3r	4r	-	2r	3r	1r	1r	3r	1r	-
French Open	1r	1r	-	1r	-	2r	1r	4r	1r	1r	2r	-	3r	-
Wimbledon	1r	2r	2r	2r	4r	4r	1r	4r	1r	QF	2r	4r	2r	1r
US Open	1r	1r	1r	1r	3r	3r	2r	4r	3r	F	1r	1r	1r	-

Rusedski has written a column for tabloid newspaper The Sun. He has also worked for the television channel British Eurosport, including providing analysis during the station's coverage of the 2003 Australian Open. This is a role Rusedski is set to reprise for the broadcaster during their 2007 coverage of the same event.

• BBC Sport - Greg Rusedski profile
• ATP Profile

Preceded by Damon Hill

BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1997

Succeeded by Michael Owen