Paul Rosner

Paul Rosner

Country	South Africa
Residence	Birmingham, United States
Born	11 December 1972 Johannesburg
Height	6'4" (193 cm)
Turned pro	1996
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$232,555
Doubles
Career record	42–68
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 62 (19 October 1998)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002)
French Open	1R (1998, 1999, 2002)
Wimbledon	3R (1998)
US Open	1R (1998, 2002)

Paul Rosner (born 11 December 1972) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.

Career

From 1991 to 1995, Rosner competed in the United States, playing for University of Alabama at Birmingham in NCAA Men's Tennis Championship. He was an All-American on three occasions.^[1]

A doubles specialist, Rosner won 11 men's tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour. He won one ATP World Tour title, at Bologna, Italy in 1998, with American Brandon Coupe.^[2]

Rosner entered into the Men's Doubles draw of 13 Grand Slams but only twice made it past the first round. The first time was in the 1998 Wimbledon Championships, when he and partner David DiLucia reached the second round, by defeating Nicolas Lapentti and Javier Sánchez in four sets. In the 1999 Wimbledon Championships he went further, this time partnering countryman Chris Haggard. The pair made the round of 16, after two straight sets victories, but then fell to Ellis Ferreira and Rick Leach.^[3]

After he left the tour he became head coach of the tennis program at Birmingham–Southern College.

In 2011, he left Birmingham-Southern to become the Mountain Brook Country Club head tennis director.

ATP Career Finals

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

Outcome	No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	1998	Bologna, Italy	Clay	Brandon Coupe	Giorgio Galimberti Massimo Valeri	7–6, 6–3

Challenger Titles

Doubles: (11)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
1.	1996	Scheveningen, Netherlands	Clay	Brandon Coupe	Martijn Bok Dennis van Scheppingen	6–1, 3–6, 6–0
2.	1997	Fürth, Germany	Clay	Brandon Coupe	Martin Sinner Joost Winnink	7–5, 6–3
3.	1997	Braunschweig, Germany	Clay	Brandon Coupe	Nebojsa Djordjevic Oscar Ortiz	6–4, 6–3
4.	1998	Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Chris Haggard	Diego del Rio Grant Silcock	6–4, 6–2
5.	2000	Bratislava, Slovakia	Hard	Paul Hanley	Jonathan Erlich Aleksandar Kitinov	6–4, 6–4
6.	2001	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Mark Merklein	Ionuț Moldovan Yuri Schukin	6–4, 6–4
7.	2001	Houston, United States	Hard	Jeff Coetzee	Justin Bower Shaun Rudman	7–6(2), 6–4
8.	2001	Tyler, United States	Hard	Stephen Huss	Mardy Fish Jeff Morrison	6–4, 6–2
9.	2002	Hamburg, Germany	Carpet	Mark Merklein	Wesley Moodie Shaun Rudman	6–3, 6–4
10.	2002	Calabasas, United States	Hard	Glenn Weiner	Justin Gimelstob Paul Goldstein	6–2, 4–6, 7–6(4)
11.	2002	Córdoba, Spain	Hard	Ota Fukarek	Emilio Benfele Álvarez Dušan Vemić	7–6(7), 6–4

References