The 21st century
Great Britain · born Montreal, 1973 · left-handed · three times Newport champion, twice Nottingham champion
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5
Grass singles titles: Newport 1993, 2004, 2005; Nottingham 1997, 2003
15
ATP singles titles
4
Career-high ranking, October 1997
QF
Best Wimbledon result, 1997
1997
US Open finalist and BBC Sports Personality of the Year
Greg Rusedski was born in Montreal in 1973 and turned professional in 1991, the year he won the Wimbledon boys' doubles for Canada. His first ATP title came on the grass of Newport in 1993, still under the Canadian flag. In 1995 he took British citizenship, through his English-born mother, and played for Great Britain from then on, a move that was resented in Canada.
Built on a big left-handed serve and a net game, his best year was 1997: he won Nottingham, reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals and the US Open final, which he lost to Pat Rafter, rose to No. 4 in October and was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year ahead of Tim Henman. He won 15 ATP singles titles, five of them on grass, the last two at Newport in 2004 and 2005. In January 2004 he tested positive for nandrolone; an ATP panel cleared him that March, finding that the case most likely came from contaminated tablets the ATP itself had distributed. He retired in 2007 and works as a broadcaster.
| Newport 1993 | His first ATP title, beating Javier Frana 7-5, 6-7(7), 7-6(5) |
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| Nottingham | 1997: beat Karol Kučera 6-4, 7-5, shortly before his Wimbledon quarter-final. 2003: beat Mardy Fish 6-3, 6-2 |
| Newport 2004 and 2005 | 2004: beat Alexander Popp 7-6(5), 7-6(2). 2005: as third seed, aged 31, beat Vince Spadea 7-6(3), 2-6, 6-4, the first time he defended a title |
| Wimbledon | Quarter-finalist in 1997, losing to Cédric Pioline. Boys' doubles champion in 1991 with Karim Alami, beating Jean-Laurent De Jager and Andrei Medvedev 1-6, 7-6(4), 6-4 |
| Invitation doubles | Won the Wimbledon gentlemen's invitation doubles with Fabrice Santoro in 2012 and 2016, and lost the 2013 final |
| Newport, Rhode Island | ||
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| 1993 | Men's singles Hall of Fame Open | |
| 1994 | Men's doubles Hall of Fame Open | with Alex Antonitsch |
| 2004 | Men's singles Hall of Fame Open | |
| 2005 | Men's singles Hall of Fame Open | |
| Nottingham | ||
| 1997 | Men's singles | |
| 2003 | Men's singles | |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"What you can't control you just got to let go sometimes."
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Newport, 1993 · 1995
He won his first tour title at Newport in 1993 under the Canadian flag. In 1995 he took British citizenship, possible because his mother was born in England, and the switch was not popular in Canada. The switch caused resentment in Canada and was not universally popular in Britain.
Source: OlympediaNottingham and London, 1997
Nottingham in June 1997 was his third final of the year and his first win in them. By December he had reached the US Open final and won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year vote, with Henman second. "The icing on the cake was getting BBC Sports Personality of the Year," he said later.
Source: Tennis365Wimbledon 2003 · Centre Court
Leading Andy Roddick 5-2 in the third set, Rusedski stopped playing a point when a spectator called a Roddick shot out. The ball was good, the umpire Lars Graff gave Roddick the point, and Rusedski lost the next game, swore at the umpire and threw his racket. He lost 7-6, 7-6, 7-5, apologised, and was fined 1,500 pounds by the referee, Alan Mills.
Source: The Irish TimesWimbledon 1991
Playing for Canada, he won the Wimbledon boys' doubles with Karim Alami of Morocco. Two decades later he was back winning on the same lawns, taking the gentlemen's invitation doubles with Fabrice Santoro in 2012 and 2016.
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