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Australia · born Bendigo, 1975 · Wimbledon doubles champion 2005, the first qualifiers to win it
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Qualifiers to win the Wimbledon men's doubles, with Wesley Moodie in 2005
807
His singles ranking when he won Wimbledon
5
Seeded teams beaten in the 2005 main draw, including the top three
101 to 32
His doubles ranking before and after the 2005 title
21
Career-high doubles ranking, June 2006
Stephen Huss was born in Bendigo, Victoria, on 10 December 1975. He played four years at Auburn University from 1996 to 2000, earning All-America honours in doubles in 1998 and in singles in 2000, and he left with the school record of 93 doubles wins. He turned professional in 2000 and built his career in doubles on the Challenger circuit, where he won 18 titles.
His first tour title came in Casablanca in 2002. In 2005, aged 29 and close to giving up, he came through Wimbledon qualifying with the South African Wesley Moodie and won the title. He later won Beijing in 2008 and Montpellier in 2010 with Ross Hutchins, reached a career-high No. 21 in June 2006 and a Wimbledon mixed semi-final in 2009, and retired after the 2011 US Open.
He coached at Virginia Tech from 2012 and then became a USTA national coach, working with young American women including Sofia Kenin, Jennifer Brady and Caroline Dolehide. He married the Venezuelan player Milagros Sequera in 2009.
| Wimbledon 2005 final | Unseeded, beat the second seeds Bob and Mike Bryan 7-6 (7-4), 6-3, 6-7 (2-7), 6-3 on No.1 Court in 141 minutes |
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| Wimbledon 2005 run | Won two qualifying rounds, then beat the sixth seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Todd Woodbridge, the third seeds in the quarter-final and the top seeds Jonas Björkman and Max Mirnyi in the semi-final |
| Woodbridge's year off | The Compendium's account of 2005 notes that the men's doubles was memorable because Todd Woodbridge, champion nine times, did not win it; Huss and Moodie had put him out in the second round |
| Other grass | Wimbledon mixed doubles semi-final 2009; runner-up at the Surbiton Challenger in 2007 with James Auckland |
| Wimbledon | ||
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| 2005 | Men's doubles | with Wesley Moodie |
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 considered myself a cerebral player, probably by necessity, as I did not possess obvious weapons in my own game."
The person behind the player.
Auburn, 1996 to 2000
At Auburn he was a doubles All-American in 1998 and a singles All-American in 2000, won the national clay court doubles title in 1999 with Tiago Ruffoni and set the school record of 93 doubles wins.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon, 2005
He arrived at Wimbledon at 29, ranked 807th in singles, and said afterwards that he had thought about retiring just before the tournament. The final was his first tour-level match with Moodie as a team, and the pair split £220,000.
Source: The Daily Star (Bangladesh), 4 July 2005On court
He studied opponents closely, watching how they moved rather than following the ball, and kept notes on their habits. "I quickly realized that people execute differently at 1-1 than they do in a tiebreak or at 5-6, 30-30 in the third set."
Source: USTA Player Development blogAfter 2011
He joined Virginia Tech as assistant coach in 2012 and moved on to the USTA, where his players have included Sofia Kenin, later the 2020 Australian Open champion.
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