Ashley Fisher

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**Ashley Fisher**

Country	Australia
Residence	Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Date of birth	September 25, 1975 (1975-09-25) (age 32)
Place of birth	New South Wales, Australia
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11+¹⁄₂ in)
Weight	78 kg (170 lb)
Turned pro	1998
Retired	Active
Plays	Right
Career prize money	US$577,199
Singles
Career record:	0–0
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	489 (July 24, 2000)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	N/A
French Open	N/A
Wimbledon	N/A
US Open	N/A
Doubles
Career record:	103-137
Career titles:	26 (3 ATP, 23 ITF)
Highest ranking:	24 (October 9, 2006)
Infobox last updated on: January 2, 2008.

Ashley Fisher (born September 25, 1975) is a professional tennis player who comes from New South Wales in Australia. Fisher turned professional in 1998. Fisher has never played a major singles match on the prestigious ATP Tour, however has won three notable doubles titles on tour. The right-handed doubles specialist reached his highest doubles ranking of World Number 24 on October 9, 2006. Fisher also reached the 2006 U.S. Open men's doubles semifinals alongside Tripp Phillips, where they lost to Jonas Björkman and Max Mirnyi, 6–1, 6–4. Fisher and Nikolay Davydenko were Wimbledon men's doubles quarterfinalists in 2004, where they lost to Jonas Björkman and Todd Woodbridge. He has won a total of 26 doubles titles, with 23 minor league Challengers and Futures events on the International Tennis Federation.

Fisher won his first ATP doubles title in Amersfoort with Devin Bowen, where they defeated Chris Haggard and André Sá 6–0, 6–4. His other two ATP titles were with different partners.

Fisher was born to mother Pamela and father Gary, and has two older siblings. Fisher started tennis at age five.

He currently resides in Wollongong, New South Wales and is coached by Dave Abelson, who was Fisher's doubles partner in the International Tennis Federation's Nonthaburi, Thailand tournament, which they won together in 1999.

1 Grand Slam Men's Doubles Performance Timeline
2 ATP Doubles Titles
- 2.1 Doubles wins (26)
3 External Links

[edit] Grand Slam Men's Doubles Performance Timeline

Tournament	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Australian Open	A	A	1R	1R	3R	3R	1R	3R	QF	2R	0 / 8	9-8
French Open	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	1R	1R	0 / 7	1-7
Wimbledon	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	QF	2R	3R	1R	0 / 7	7-7
U.S. Open	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	SF	1R	0 / 6	5-6
Grand Slam SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	N / A	0 / 28
Grand Slam Win-Loss	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–3	2–4	5–4	4–4	3–4	9–4	1–4	N / A	24-28

[edit] ATP Doubles Titles

[edit] Doubles wins (26)

Legend
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (3)
ITF Challengers / Futures (23)

Titles by Surface
Hard (17)
Clay (8)
Grass (0)
Carpet (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Tier	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	July 12, 1999	Alicante, Spain	Clay	ITF	Enrique Abaroa	Tim Crichton Todd Perry	6–4, 2–6, 7–6 (4)
2.	November 8, 1999	Nonthaburi, Thailand	Hard	ITF	Dave Abelson	Bartlomiej Dabrowski Bjorn Jacob	6–4, retired
3.	November 22, 1999	Rajshahi, Bangladesh	Clay	ITF	Minh Le	Hendri Susilo Pramono Febi Widhiyanto	6–3, 6–0
4.	November 29, 1999	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Clay	ITF	Minh Le	Rik de Voest W.P. Meyer	6–2, 6–4
5.	May 1, 2000	Salzburg, Austria	Carpet	ITF	Tim Crichton	Bartlomiej Dabrowski Djalmar Sistermans	6–7 (10), 6–3, 6–3
6.	July 10, 2000	Ostend, Belgium	Clay	ITF	Tim Crichton	Francisco Cabello Damian Furmanski	6–2, 2–6, 6–1
7.	July 31, 2000	Segovia, Spain	Hard	ITF	Jason Weir Smith	Jordan Kerr Damien Roberts	7–6 (5), 6–1
8.	October 2, 2000	Austin, Texas, United States	Hard	ITF	Tim Crichton	Raemon Sluiter Dennis van Scheppingen	6–1, 6–7 (6), 6–0
9.	November 6, 2000	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	ITF	Tim Crichton	František Čermák Ota Fukarek	6–4, 6–4
10.	November 20, 2000	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	Hard	ITF	Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi	Jaroslav Levinský Michal Navratil	6–4, 6–4
11.	February 26, 2001	Singapore	Hard	ITF	Tim Crichton	Brandon Hawk Kyle Spencer	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
12.	September 3, 2001	Curtiba, Brazil	Clay	ITF	Tim Crichton	Emanuel Couto Pedro Pereira	6–3, 6–4
13.	October 28, 2002	Nottingham, Great Britain	Clay	ITF	Stephen Huss	Scott Humphries Mark Merklein	6–3, 7–6 (5)
14.	July 14, 2003	Amersfoort, Netherlands	Clay	ATP	Devin Bowen	Chris Haggard André Sá	6–0, 6–4
15.	October 27, 2003	Waco, Texas, United States	Hard	ITF	Devin Bowen	Ryan Haviland K. J. Hippensteel	6–4, 7–6 (4)
16.	December 29, 2003	New Caledonia	Hard	ITF	Stephen Huss	Luke Bourgeois Vince Mellino	3–6, 6–4, 6–4
17.	March 15, 2004	Mexico City, Mexico	Clay	ITF	Tripp Phillips	Federico Brown Rogier Wassen	6–4, 2–6, 6–3
18.	September 6, 2004	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	ITF	Robert Linstedt	Johan Landsberg Thomas Shimada	7–5, 7–6
19.	September 20, 2004	Beijing, China	Hard	ITF	Tripp Phillips	Justin Gimelstob Graydon Oliver	7–5, 7–5
20.	August 1, 2005	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Hard	ITF	Tripp Phillips	Huntley Montgomery Rajeev Ram	7–6 (6), 1–6, 6–3
21.	October 31, 2005	Busan, South Korea	Hard	ITF	Tripp Phillips	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	7–5, 6–3
22.	November 14, 2005	Champaign, Illinois, United States	Hard	ITF	Tripp Phillips	Justin Gimelstob Rajeev Ram	6–3, 5–7, 6–0
23.	November 28, 2005	Orlando, Florida, United States	Hard	ITF	Tripp Phillips	Alex Kuznetsov Mischa Zverev	6–0, 2–3, defeated
24.	October 2, 2006	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	ATP	Tripp Phillips	Paul Goldstein Jim Thomas	6–2, 7–5
25.	July 30, 2007	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Hard	ITF	Rik de Voest	Alex Kuznetsov Donald Young	6–1, 6–2
26.	September 10, 2007	Beijing, China	Hard	ATP	Rik de Voest	Chris Haggard Yen-Hsun Lu	6–7 (3), 6–0, [10-6]