Grant Doyle (born 9 January 1974) is a former professional

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player from Australia. He is the CEO and owner of Advantage Doyle Tennis Academies.

Junior career

Doyle won four junior

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titles during his early years. He and partner

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were boys' doubles champions at the 1991 Australian Open. In 1992, he became the number one ranked junior in the world. With new partner Brad Sceney, Doyle won the doubles again in the

1992 Australian Open The 1992 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne, Australia and was held from 13 through 26 January 1992. It was the 80th edition of the Australian Open and the first Grand Slam tourna ...

and was also the singles champion, dropping just two games in his defeat of Brian Dunn in the final. He was a doubles winner at the 1992 French Open, partnering Mexican Enrique Abaroa and won the singles title in that year's Queen's Junior Championships.

ATP Tour

Doyle was a doubles semi-finalist in the

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, held in

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, with Eagle as his partner. As a singles player, he had his best result at the 1997 Sybase Open in

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, making the quarter-finals, with wins over

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and

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. Doyle made eight main draw appearances in singles at Grand Slam level. Although he didn't ever proceed past the first round, he came close when he lost 5–7 in the fifth set to

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at the

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and also in another five-set loss at the

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, to

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, with the same fifth set score. Every year from 1991 to 1999, Doyle appeared in the men's doubles at the Australian Open. He twice reached the round of 16, with Eagle in 1992 and later partnering Ben Ellwood in the

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. His run with Ellwood included a win over 12th seeds

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and Francisco Montana.

Coaching

Doyle is currently coaching young American

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and has previously worked as the coach of

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Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Doubles: 3 (3 titles)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 2 (0–2)

Doubles: 11 (5–6)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Doyle, Grant 1974 births Living people Australian male tennis players Australian Open (tennis) junior champions French Open junior champions Tennis people from New South Wales Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles 20th-century Australian people 21st-century Australian people