Geoff Grant is an American former professional
tour tennis
Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
player.
Biography
Grant reached a career high tour singles ranking of World No. 109 in November 1998. This came shortly after he achieved his best tournament result, reaching the third round of the
1998 U.S. Open, as a wild card entrant. In that tournament he defeated World No. 101
Javier Sánchez in four sets and No. 74
Andrei Medvedev in four before falling to No. 92
Oliver Gross in five set, 5–7 in the fifth. At the previous Open, Grant also accounted for himself well taking World No. 9
Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten (; born 10 September 1976) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the list of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals f ...
to five sets. In only other two appearances in the main draw of a
Grand Slam event, Grant lost in the first round of the
Australian Open
The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. It is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Sl ...
in straight sets (1997 and 1999).
In 1997, Grant compiled the best singles recond in
Challenger event play, 30 wins against 14 losses.
This included winning the
Lubbock Challenger. His career high doubles ranking was World No. 90, which he reached in May, 1999.
While on tour (at least), Grant resided in
Watertown, Massachusetts
Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, part of Greater Boston. The population was 35,329 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Its neighborhoods include Bemis, Coolidge Square, East Watertown, Watertown Sq ...
.
References
Sources
ATP Website profile page
1970 births
Living people
American male tennis players
Duke Blue Devils men's tennis players
Sportspeople from Englewood, New Jersey
Tennis players from Bergen County, New Jersey
Sportspeople from Watertown, Massachusetts
Tennis players from Massachusetts
20th-century American sportsmen
{{US-tennis-bio-stub