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Australia · born Narrabri, New South Wales, 1970 · Australian junior champion 1987 · Wimbledon semi-finalist 1996
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5
Junior major doubles titles with Todd Woodbridge
1996
Wimbledon semi-final, as an unseeded player
6-1, 6-3
Manchester final 1993, his first tour title
No. 19
Career-high singles ranking, October 1994
Born in Narrabri, New South Wales, in 1970, Stoltenberg held an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship and in 1987 won the boys' singles at the Australian Open, finishing the year as the world's No. 1 junior. He turned professional the same year. He won four tour singles titles between 1993 and 1997 (Manchester, Birmingham and Coral Springs twice) and five in doubles, and reached No. 19 in singles in October 1994 and No. 23 in doubles. He played in the Australian team that lost the 1993 Davis Cup final to Germany, finished with a 9-5 Davis Cup record and played the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He retired in 2001, coached Lleyton Hewitt from December 2001 to June 2003 and has worked as a Tennis Australia coaching consultant since 2010.
| Major singles titles | 1: Australian (1987) |
|---|---|
| Major singles finals lost | 1: Wimbledon (1987) |
| Major doubles titles | 3: Wimbledon (1987, 1988); Australian (1987) |
| Wimbledon boys' doubles | 1987 with Todd Woodbridge, beat Diego Nargiso and Eugenio Rossi 6-3, 7-6. 1988 with Woodbridge, beat David Rikl and Tomas Zdrazila 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 |
| Junior finals | Australian boys' singles 1987 at Kooyong, the last year on grass: beat Woodbridge 6-2, 7-6. Wimbledon boys' singles 1987: lost to Nargiso 6-7, 4-6 |
| Wimbledon singles | Semi-final 1996, unseeded: beat Goran Ivanišević 6-3, 7-6, 6-7, 7-6 in the quarter-final, lost to Richard Krajicek 7-5, 6-2, 6-1. Fourth round 1998 |
| Other grass titles | Manchester singles 1993, beat Wally Masur 6-1, 6-3. Manchester doubles 1990 with Mark Kratzmann |
| Other grass finals | Newport doubles 1998 with Scott Draper |
| As a coach | With Lleyton Hewitt when he won Wimbledon in 2002 |
| Northern Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Men's doubles Manchester Open | with Mark Kratzmann |
| 1993 | Men's singles Manchester Open | |
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
"I feel like today I beat one of the best grass-courters in the world. He has been in two finals here. It is just a matter of believing in myself."
The person behind the player.
Narrabri, New South Wales
He started playing at the age of ten on an antbed court, made from crushed termite mound, on his father's cotton farm in the far west of New South Wales. From there he went to the Australian Institute of Sport, and in 1987 he finished as the world's No. 1 junior.
Source: ATP TourKooyong 1987
In the boys' final of the last Australian Open on grass he beat Todd Woodbridge 6-2, 7-6. The two then won the doubles together, and the partnership went on to take five junior major doubles titles: the Australian Open and Wimbledon in both 1987 and 1988, and the French Open in 1988.
Source: OlympediaWimbledon 1996 · Quarter-final
Darkness stopped his quarter-final against Goran Ivanišević with Stoltenberg two sets to one up. On the resumption Ivanišević had three break points in the second game of the fourth set but could not take one, and Stoltenberg won the tiebreak 7-3 to reach his first major semi-final.
Source: The Irish TimesWimbledon 1996 · Semi-final
Seeds fell so fast that year that Todd Martin, at 13, was the only seed left among the last four. Stoltenberg met Richard Krajicek, who had beaten him in the first round of the Australian Open that January. Krajicek won again, 7-5, 6-2, 6-1, and went on to take the title.
Source: The Spokesman-ReviewWimbledon 2002 · Centre Court
When Lleyton Hewitt beat David Nalbandian in the final, he climbed through the stands to the guest box, as Pat Cash had done in 1987, and embraced his coach, Jason Stoltenberg, before going back down to collect the trophy. Hewitt said afterwards that he kept looking at the scoreboard to see if it was real.
Source: ESPNTennis Australia, 2010 onwards
His time with Hewitt lasted about 18 months, from late 2001, and took in the 2002 Wimbledon title. He later returned to coaching through the national federation: from 2010 he worked as a Tennis Australia consultant with several Australian players, Ash Barty among them.
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