Dustin Brown (tennis)

Dustin Brown

Country	Jamaica  Germany
Residence	Winsen an der Aller, Germany
Born	December 8, 1984 (1984-12-08) (age 26) Celle, West Germany
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Turned pro	2002
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US $539,116
Singles
Career record	8–21
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 89 (17 January 2011)
Current ranking	No. 180 (14 November 2011)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	1R (2011)
French Open	1R (2011)
Wimbledon	1R (2010)
US Open	2R (2010)
Doubles
Career record	17–20
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 48 (31 January 2011)
Current ranking	No. 67 (14 November 2011)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2011)
French Open	3R (2011)
Last updated on: 14 November 2011.

Dustin Brown (born December 8, 1984 in Celle, West Germany) is a German-Jamaican professional tennis player. Brown competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 89, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 53, on January 17, 2011.^[1][2]

Brown announced in June 2010, that due to a lack of funding and support from the Jamaican Tennis Association, he is tempted to switch nationality, and play professional tennis for Great Britain, due to his paternal British grandparents.^[3][4][5]

In October 2010 he decided to play under the German flag. He was first marked as a German player at the Main Draw at Eckental.^[6] The move was also confirmed on his official Facebook page.

Career

2010

In his second main circuit appearance after a first round loss at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in 2003, Brown defeated 4th seed Marco Chiudinelli and ATP No. 139 Laurent Recouderc to reach the quarterfinals of the 2010 SA Tennis Open in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he lost to eventual runner-up Stéphane Robert. Brown became the second Jamaican after Doug Burke at the 1989 BP National Championships in Wellington, New Zealand, to reach the quarterfinals of a main Tour event.^[7]

On May 17, 2010 Brown cracked the top 100 for the time first time in his career and attained a singles ranking of World No. 99.

Brown played at his third ATP tour event at the 2010 AEGON Championships (Queen's Club) and defeated his first round opponent Frank Dancevic 7–5, 6–7(4), 6–4 to progress to the 2nd round. He lost in the second round to Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan (7–6(7) 6–4).^[8]

Brown then played at the 2010 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport, Rhode Island where he defeated Björn Phau in the first round 7–6(3) 6–7(7) 6–4. He then proceeded to defeat world #19 Sam Querrey in the second round in straight sets, 6–4 6–3, a shocking upset of the #3 American. Brown was then defeated by Argentinian Brian Dabul in the quarterfinals.

Brown played in the 2010 U.S. Open, his second grand slam main draw. He won his first career grand slam match defeating Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo 6–4, 7–6(6), 7–5 to advance to the second round. Brown was then beaten by Andy Murray 7–5, 6–3, 6–0.

Although Dustin lost to Gilles Simon (first round) in straight sets (6–3, 6–4) in the singles draw in Metz, he was able to get into the doubles tournament as alternate #1 because a team pulled out of the draw. Brown took advantage of the opportunity by reaching his very first ATP World Tour doubles final. The doubles duo, nicknamed "Dreddy & Da Professor" by Brown himself, had a week full of dramatic comebacks. The first round saw the team win 5–7, 7–5, 11–9 against Hutchins/Lipsky after being down 5–7, 1–3. The quarterfinals involved the duo beating Parrott/Kerr 6–4, 7–6 (4) after being down 0–4 in the second set. This match influenced Brown to nickname his doubles team "The Come Back Kids". The two won the semifinals 7–6 (6), 6–3 against the number 1 seeded team (#5 ATP ranked) to earn a spot in the final, which they've won in two straight sets against number 2 seeds (#16) Melo-Soares to gain his/their first ATP title.

Dustin won his first title playing under the German flag at the 2010 Lambertz Open by STAWAG.

2011

Dustin received a wild card into the 2011 BMW Open where he caused a major upset in the 1st round when he defeated World No. 14 Stanislas Wawrinka in three sets.

Main tour finals: 1 (1–0)

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

Legend

Grand Slam tournaments (0)

ATP World Tour Finals (0)

ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0)

ATP World Tour 500 Series (0)

ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in final
Winner	1.	02010-09-26September 26, 2010	Metz, France	Hard	Rogier Wassen	Marcelo Melo Bruno Soares	6–3, 6–3

Challenger finals: 22 (13–9)

Singles: 7 (3–4)

Legend

Challengers (3–4)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	02009-05-25May 25, 2009	Karlsruhe, Germany	Clay	Florian Mayer	2–6, 4–6
Winner	1.	02009-08-10August 10, 2009	Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Clay	Jonathan Dasnieres de Veigy	7–6(3), 6–3
Runner-up	2.	02009-08-24August 24, 2009	Almaty, Kazakhstan	Hard	Ivan Sergeyev	3–6, 7–5, 4–6
Runner-up	3.	02009-11-02November 2, 2009	Eckental, Germany	Carpet (i)	Daniel Brands	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	02009-11-09November 9, 2009	Aachen, Germany	Carpet (i)	Rajeev Ram	6–7(2), 7–6(5), 6–7(2)
Winner	2.	02010-04-17April 17, 2010	Johannesburg, South Africa	Hard	Izak van der Merwe	7–6(2), 6–3
Winner	3.	02010-11-14November 14, 2010	Aachen, Germany	Carpet (i)	Igor Sijsling	6–3, 7–6(3)

Doubles: 15 (10–5)

Legend

Challengers (10–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in final
Winner	1.	02009-09-14September 14, 2009	Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Rainer Eitzinger	Ismar Gorčić Simone Vagnozzi	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	02010-02-15February 15, 2010	Belgrade, Serbia	Hard (i)	Martin Slanar	Ilija Bozoljac Jamie Delgado	3–6, 3–6
Winner	2.	02010-03-29March 29, 2010	Napoli, Italy	Clay	Jesse Witten	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	7–6(4), 7–5
Winner	3.	02010-04-26April 26, 2010	Rhodes, Greece	Hard	Simon Stadler	Jonathan Marray Jamie Murray	7–6(4), 6–7(4), [10–7]
Runner-up	2.	02010-05-03May 3, 2010	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Andre Begemann	Martin Slanar Simone Vagnozzi	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	3.	02010-05-10May 10, 2010	Biella, Italy	Clay	Alessandro Motti	James Cerretani Adil Shamasdin	3–6, 6–2, [9–11]
Winner	4.	02010-05-31May 31, 2010	Fürth, Germany	Clay	Rameez Junaid	Martin Emmrich Joseph Sirianni	6–3, 6–1
Winner	5.	02010-08-08August 8, 2010	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Rogier Wassen	Hans Podlipnik-Castillo Max Raditschnigg	3–6, 7–5, [10–7]
Winner	6.	02010-09-18September 18, 2010	Szczecin, Poland	Clay	Rogier Wassen	Rameez Junaid Philipp Marx	6–4, 7–5
Winner	7.	02010-11-28November 28, 2010	Helsinki, Finland	Hard	Martin Emmrich	Henri Kontinen Jarkko Nieminen	7–6(17), 0–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	4.	02011-03-06March 6, 2011	Dallas, United States	Hard	Björn Phau	Scott Lipsky Rajeev Ram	6–7(3), 4–6
Runner-up	5.	02011-06-05June 5, 2011	Nottingham, Great Britain	Grass	Martin Emmrich	Colin Fleming Ross Hutchins	6–4, 6–7(8), [11–13]
Winner	8.	02011-08-28August 28, 2011	Manerbio, Italy	Clay	Lovro Zovko	Alessio di Mauro Alessandro Motti	7–6(4), 7–5
Winner	9.	02011-09-10September 10, 2011	Genoa, Italy	Clay	Horacio Zeballos	Jordan Kerr Travis Parrott	6–2, 7–5
Winner	10.	02011-11-13November 13, 2011	Urtijëi, Italy	Carpet	Lovro Zovko	Philipp Petzschner Alexander Waske	6–4, 7–6(7–4)

References

1. ^ "atpworldtour.com Profile". atpworldtour.com. ATP Tour, Inc.. http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Br/D/Dustin-Brown.aspx. Retrieved 2009-12-07. 
2. ^ "itftennis.com Men's Circuit record". itftennis.com. ITF Licensing (UK) Ltd.. http://www.itftennis.com/mens/players/player.asp?player=30022870. Retrieved 2009-12-07. 
3. ^ Speck, Ivan (2010-06-22). "Dreaded Dustin Brown is ready for Great Britain's Davis Cup call". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-1288474/WIMBLEDON-2010-Dreaded-Dustin-Brown-ready-Great-Britains-Davis-Cup-call.html. 
4. ^ "Jamaican Brown open to GB switch". BBC News. 2010-06-21. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/8752793.stm. 
5. ^ Mitchell, Kevin (2010-06-20). "Dustin Brown hopes to make Jamaica's loss Britain's gain". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jun/20/dustin-brown-wimbledon-interview. 
6. ^ Draw showing Brown as german
7. ^ "Brown's Cool Run In Johannesburg". atpworldtour.com. ATP Tour, Inc.. 2010-02-03. http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis/2010/02/Johannesburg-Brown-Feature.aspx. Retrieved 2010-02-09. 
8. ^ http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/09062010/2/tennis-queen-men-singles-results.html

External links

• Dustin Brown at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Dustin Brown at the International Tennis Federation
• Dustin Brown at the Davis Cup
• Dustin Brown official website

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Name	Brown, Dustin
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Date of birth	December 8, 1984
Place of birth	Celle, Germany
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