Steve Campbell (tennis)

Steve Campbell
Country (sports) United States United States
Residence Detroit, Michigan
Born (1970-10-12) October 12, 1970
Buffalo, New York
Height 6' (183 cm)
Turned pro 1993
Plays Right-handed
Prize money $484,898
Singles
Career record 32-54
Career titles 0
Highest ranking No. 78 (April 13, 1998)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 3R (1998)
French Open 1R (1998)
Wimbledon 1R (1998)
US Open 1R (1995, 1997, 1998)
Doubles
Career record 6-10
Career titles 0
Highest ranking No. 184 (June 24, 1996)

Steve Campbell (born October 22, 1970) is a former professional tennis player from United States.

Career

Campbell, a New Yorker by birth, grew up in Michigan. He was an All-American while at Rice University.

He made his Grand Slam debut at the 1995 Australian Open and defeated countryman Chuck Adams in the opening encounter, before losing his second round match to Patrick Rafter. The American pushed veteran Mats Wilander to five sets in the US Open but he would have to wait until the 1998 Australian Open for his second win. In that tournament he beat both Justin Gimelstob and Alex O'Brien to make it into the third round, his best ever showing in a Grand Slam.[1]

Although predominantly a singles player, Campbell's only ATP Tour final was in the doubles, at Bogota, where he and MaliVai Washington finished runners-up in 1995. He made the singles semi-finals of the 1997 International Tennis Championships but had by far his best performances in 1998. After starting the year well at the Australian Open, Campbell won three matches at the Lipton Championships in Miami (an ATP Super 9 event), reaching the quarter-finals. He was also a quarter-finalist at Atlanta and again in the Heineken Trophy, where he upset world number seven Yevgeny Kafelnikov.[2]

ATP Career Finals

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome No. Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score in the final
Runner-up 1. 1995 Colombia Bogota, Colombia Clay United States MaliVai Washington Czech Republic Jiri Novak
Czech Republic David Rikl
6-7, 2-6

Challenger Titles

Singles: (2)

No. Year Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
1. 1995 Brazil Belo Horizonte, Brazil Hard Portugal Joao Cunha-Silva 6-2, 6-3
2. 1997 Mexico Ixtapa, Mexico Hard Finland Tuomas Ketola 7-6, 6-1

References

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