Dustin Brown (tennis)

Dustin Brown

Country	Jamaica (2002–2010)  Germany (2010–)
Residence	Winsen an der Aller, Germany
Born	(1984-12-08) December 8, 1984 Celle, West Germany
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Turned pro	2002
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand) *occasionally uses one-handed backhand
Prize money	$893,987
Singles
Career record	14-28
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 89 (17 January 2011)
Current ranking	No. 98 (6 January 2014)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2011)
French Open	1R (2011)
Wimbledon	3R (2013)
US Open	2R (2010)
Doubles
Career record	43–43
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 43 (14 May 2012)
Current ranking	No. 95 (6 January 2014)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2011)
French Open	3R (2011)
Wimbledon	2R (2012)
US Open	1R (2012)
Last updated on: June 26, 2013 by Andybud.

Dustin Brown (born December 8, 1984 in Celle, West Germany)^[1] is a German professional tennis player. Brown competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 89 in January 2011 and his highest doubles ranking of World No. 43 in May 2012.^[2][3]

Early life

Brown was born on December 8, 1984 in Celle, West Germany to Leroy and Inge Brown. His father was Jamaican and his mother originated from Germany. He emigrated to Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1996.^[4]

Career

2010

In his second main circuit appearance after a first-round loss at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in 2003, Brown defeated fourth seed Marco Chiudinelli and 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 ATP Tour event.^[5]

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, 6–4. He lost in the second round to Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan, 6-7, 4-6.^[6]

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, 6–7, 6–4. He then proceeded to defeat World No. 19 Sam Querrey in the second round in straight sets, 6–4, 6–3, a shocking upset. Brown was then defeated by Argentinian Brian Dabul in the quarterfinals.

Brown played in the 2010 US Open, his second Grand Slam main draw. He won his first career Grand Slam match, defeating Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo, 6–4, 7–6, 7–5. Brown was then beaten by Andy Murray, 5-7, 3-6, 0-6.

Although Brown lost to Gilles Simon (first round) in straight sets, 3-6, 4-6, in the singles draw in Metz, he was able to get into the doubles tournament (pairing with Rogier Wassen) as alternates because a team pulled out of the draw. Brown and Wassen reached Brown's first ATP World Tour doubles final. The doubles duo, nicknamed "Dreddy & Da Professor" by Brown himself,^{[citation needed]} 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, 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, 6–3, against the top seeded team (No. 5 ATP ranked) to earn a spot in the final, which they won in straight sets against second seeds (no. 16) Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares.

Brown announced in June 2010, that due to a lack of funding and support from the Jamaican Tennis Association, he was tempted to switch nationality, and play professional tennis for Great Britain, his paternal grandparents being British.^[7][8][9] Instead, in October 2010 he decided to compete for Germany, his country of birth. Brown's first event playing under the German flag was Eckental.^[10] Brown won his first title playing under the German flag at the 2010 Lambertz Open by STAWAG.^[11]

2011

Brown received a wild card into the 2011 BMW Open, where he caused a major upset in the first round when he defeated World No. 14 Stanislas Wawrinka in three sets.^[12]

2012

Brown had his best year yet in 2012, reaching three doubles finals and winning a second ATP title. He teamed with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to reach the final in Marseille, where they lost to Nicolas Mahut and Édouard Roger-Vasselin. He won the Casablanca doubles title with Paul Hanley, defeating Italians Daniele Bracciali and Fabio Fognini in the final. Again with Hanley, he was runner-up in Kitzbühel.

2013

He qualified for Wimbledon in singles where he defeated World No. 67, Guillermo García-López, in the first round 6–3, 6–3, 6–3, and the 2002 Wimbledon Champion and World No. 70, Lleyton Hewitt, 6–4, 6–4, 6–7 (3–7), 6–2 in the second round.

Playing Style

Brown has a strong serve and uses a serve and volley strategy, which he often also uses at his 2nd serve. His main goal is to avoid long rallies and constantly hit winners. His style can be compared to that of his compratiot Boris Becker.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 5 (2–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	02010-09-26September 26, 2010	Open de Moselle, Metz, France	Hard	Rogier Wassen	Marcelo Melo Bruno Soares	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	02012-02-26February 26, 2012	Open 13, Marseille, France	Hard (i)	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Nicolas Mahut Édouard Roger-Vasselin	3–6, 6–3, [10–6]
Winner	2.	02012-04-14April 14, 2012	Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Paul Hanley	Daniele Bracciali Fabio Fognini	7–5, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	02012-07-28July 28, 2012	Austrian Open Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Paul Hanley	František Čermák Julian Knowle	6–7(4–7), 6–3, [10–12]
Runner-up	3.	02013-04-14April 14, 2013	Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Christopher Kas	Julian Knowle Filip Polášek	3-6, 2-6

Challenger finals

Singles: 11 (5–6)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
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(7–3), 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), 7–6(7–5), 6–7(2–7)
Winner	2.	02010-04-17April 17, 2010	Johannesburg, South Africa	Hard	Izak van der Merwe	7–6(7–2), 6–3
Winner	3.	02010-11-14November 14, 2010	Aachen, Germany	Carpet (i)	Igor Sijsling	6–3, 7–6(7–3)
Winner	4.	02012-03-25March 25, 2012	Bath, Great Britain	Hard	Jan Mertl	6–4, 7–6(7–1)
Runner-up	5.	02013-03-17March 17, 2013	Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina	Hard	Adrian Mannarino	6–7(3–7), 6–7(2–7)
Winner	5.	02013-09-08September 8, 2013	Genoa, Italy	Clay	Filippo Volandri	7–6(7–5), 6–3
Runner-up	6.	02013-11-24November 24, 2013	Andria, Italy	Hard	Márton Fucsovics	6–3, 6–4

Doubles: 19 (12–7)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
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(7–4), 7–5
Winner	3.	02010-04-26April 26, 2010	Rhodes, Greece	Hard	Simon Stadler	Jonathan Marray Jamie Murray	7–6(7–4), 6–7(4–7), [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(19–17), 0–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	4.	02011-03-06March 6, 2011	Dallas, United States	Hard	Björn Phau	Scott Lipsky Rajeev Ram	6–7(3–7), 4–6
Runner-up	5.	02011-06-05June 5, 2011	Nottingham, Great Britain	Grass	Martin Emmrich	Colin Fleming Ross Hutchins	6–4, 6–7(8–10), [11–13]
Winner	8.	02011-08-28August 28, 2011	Manerbio, Italy	Clay	Lovro Zovko	Alessio di Mauro Alessandro Motti	7–6(7–4), 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)
Runner-up	6.	02012-02-12February 12, 2012	Quimper, France	Hard	Jonathan Marray	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Maxime Teixeira	6–7(5–7), 4–6
Runner-up	7.	02012-03-04March 4, 2012	Cherbourg, France	Hard	Jonathan Marray	Laurynas Grigelis Uladzimir Ignatik	6–4, 6–7(9–11), [0–10]
Winner	11.	02012-03-17March 17, 2012	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Hard	Jonathan Marray	Michal Mertiňák Igor Zelenay	7–6(7–2), 2–6, [11–9]
Winner	12.	02012-04-21April 21, 2012	Rome, Italy	Clay	Jonathan Marray	Andrei Dăescu Florin Mergea	6–4, 7–6(7–0)

Singles performance timeline

Key

Won tournament; or reached Final; Semifinal; Quarter-final; Round 4, 3, 2, 1; competed at a Round Robin stage; lost in Qualification Round; absent from tournament event; played in a Davis Cup Zonal Group (with its number indication) or Play-off; won a bronze, silver (F or S) or gold medal at the Olympics; a downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament (Not a Masters Series); or a tournament that was Not Held in a given year.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated either at the conclusion of a tournament, or when the player's participation in the tournament has ended.

Current up to 2014 Australian Open.

Doubles performance timeline

Current up to 2013 US Open.

References

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

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten German male singles tennis players as of 27 January 2014 1. Tommy Haas (12 ) 2. Philipp Kohlschreiber (27 4) 3. Florian Mayer (29 8) 4. Daniel Brands (68 9) 5. Tobias Kamke (90 12) 6. Benjamin Becker (94 13) 7. Julian Reister (96 8) 8. Peter Gojowczyk (99 36) 9. Dustin Brown (104 3) 10. Jan-Lennard Struff (120 15)

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten German male doubles tennis players as of 2 December 2013 1. Martin Emmrich (42 ) 2. Andre Begemann (49 ) 3. Christopher Kas (50 ) 4. Simon Stadler (61 ) 5. Philipp Marx (84 ) 6. Dustin Brown (86 ) 7. Tommy Haas (93 ) 8. Frank Moser (97 ) 9. Dominik Meffert (110 ) 10. Alexander Satschko (115 )