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United States · born Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1963 · twice Wimbledon doubles champion with Ken Flach
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Wimbledon doubles titles with Ken Flach, 1987 and 1988
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Sets down when he and Flach turned round the 1987 final
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Grand Slam doubles titles
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World ranking in doubles, reached in 1985
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Olympic doubles gold in Seoul with Flach
Seguso was born in Minneapolis in 1963 and grew up in Florida. At Southern Illinois University Edwardsville he met Ken Flach, and the two became one of the leading doubles teams of the 1980s. They won 28 titles together, the US Open in 1985 and Wimbledon in 1987 and 1988, and the Olympic gold medal in Seoul in 1988. Seguso also won the 1987 French Open with Anders Järryd, reached No. 1 in the doubles rankings in 1985, and won 29 tour doubles titles in all.
He played Davis Cup doubles with Flach from 1985 to 1991 and reached a career-high of No. 22 in singles, with wins over John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Thomas Muster and Jim Courier. In 1987 he married the Canadian player Carling Bassett; they have five children and live in Bradenton, Florida. Flach died in 2018, aged 54.
| Wimbledon final, 1987 | Seeded seventh, beat Sergio Casal and Emilio Sánchez 3-6, 6-7 (6-8), 7-6 (7-3), 6-1, 6-4 after losing the first two sets |
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| Wimbledon final, 1988 | As top seeds, beat John Fitzgerald and Anders Järryd 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3) |
| A 26-point tiebreak | In 1988 he and Flach beat Eddie Edwards and Gary Miller 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (14-12), the longest tiebreak in a Wimbledon men's doubles semi-final |
| Wimbledon 1986 | Lost the quarter-final to Joakim Nyström and Mats Wilander 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4, 11-9 after holding six match points |
| Senior invitation doubles | Won the Wimbledon gentlemen's invitation doubles with Flach in 1999 and shared it in 2000, when the final could not be played |
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
"Ken was always full of good energy and ready for an adventure."
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Edwardsville
Seguso remembered a spring break at college when five of the Southern Illinois Edwardsville team piled into Ken Flach's car and drove from Illinois to Florida to stay with his family. There were some problems with fuel on the way, but they were soon back on the road.
Source: ONcourt, "Catching up with Rob Seguso"Family
In 1987, the year of his first Wimbledon title, Seguso married Carling Bassett, Canada's leading player and a former world No. 8. Bassett counts her US Open semi-final as a teenager as her finest achievement; he names the Olympic gold, the four majors and the No. 1 ranking.
Source: ONcourt, "Catching up with Rob Seguso"Wimbledon 1986
In the 1986 quarter-finals Flach and Seguso held six match points against the Swedes Joakim Nyström and Mats Wilander, four of them in the third set, and lost 11-9 in the fifth.
Source: Wimbledon Compendium 2025 (AELTC)Nickname
On the circuit and among his college friends Seguso was known as Goose.
Source: ONcourt, "Catching up with Rob Seguso"Free membership: player news, the grass court Atlas, the rankings and the grass season calendar.
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