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Phillip Simmonds

American tennis player

Phillip Simmonds (born May 18, 1986) is a professional tennis player from the United States.

01Junior career

Simmonds had a promising junior career, spending time as the number ranked doubles player on the ITF rankings. He was a member of the United States team that finished runners-up in the 2002 Junior Davis Cup and in the same year won the doubles at the Orange Bowl, with Scott Oudsema. Simmonds and Oudsema would go on to claim the 2003 Australian Open boys' doubles title, the first American male pairing to win the competition. They defeated the Romanian pairing of Florin Mergea and Horia Tecău in the final. In 2003, he also reached the boys' doubles semi-finals at the French Open and Wimbledon, partnering Brian Baker.

02Professional career

Simmonds was given a wildcard into the 2006 US Open main draw, but couldn't get past 25th seed Richard Gasquet in the opening round. He competed in the men's doubles at the US Open three times, in 2004, 2006, and 2007, but fell in the first round each time.

He has won three Challenger titles in his career. In 2006 he won the singles title at the León Challenger tournament and he has also won two doubles titles, at Nouméa in 2007 and Baton Rouge the following year. As of the end of 2012, he has won nine ITF Futures titles, three in singles and six in doubles.

03Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Result Year Championships Surface Partner Opponent Score
Win 2003 Australian Open Hard Scott Oudsema Florin Mergea
Horia Tecău
6-4, 6-4

04ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 6 (4-2)

Legend
ATP Challenger (1-1)
ITF Futures (3-1)
Finals by surface
Hard (3-1)
Clay (1-1)
Grass (0-0)
Carpet (0-0)
Result W-L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0-1 Oct 2005 Sacramento, United States Challenger Hard Rik de Voest 6-1, 3-6, 4-6
Win 1-1 Jan 2006 USA F3, Boca Raton Futures Hard Iván Miranda 5-7, 6-4, 7-6(7-3)
Win 2-1 Apr 2006 León, Mexico Challenger Hard Dick Norman 3-6, 7-6(7-4), 6-2
Loss 2-2 Nov 2010 USA F30, Pensacola Futures Clay Dennis Bloemke 1-6, 3-6
Win 3-2 Jan 2011 USA F3, Weston Futures Clay Jack Sock 6-2, 6-2
Win 4-2 Jun 2012 USA F15, Chico Futures Hard Michael McClune 4-6, 6-2, 6-2

Doubles: 13 (8-5)

Legend
ATP Challenger (2-1)
ITF Futures (6-4)
Finals by surface
Hard (6-4)
Clay (2-1)
Grass (0-0)
Carpet (0-0)
Result W-L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1-0 May 2003 USA F11, Orange Park Futures Clay Brian Baker Marcos Ondruska
Brendan Evans
4-6, 7-5, 6-4
Loss 1-1 Nov 2004 USA F31, Waikoloa Futures Hard Scoville Jenkins Brendan Evans
Scott Oudsema
7-6(7-4), 6-7(2-7), 4-6
Win 2-1 Jan 2007 Nouméa, New Caledonia Challenger Hard Alex Kuznetsov Thierry Ascione
Édouard Roger-Vasselin
7-6(7-5), 6-3
Loss 2-2 Jul 2007 Lexington, United States Challenger Hard Ross Hutchins Brendan Evans
Ryan Sweeting
4-6, 4-6
Win 3-2 Feb 2008 USA F4, Brownsville Futures Hard Pavel Chekhov Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya
Daniel Yoo
6-3, 6-2
Win 4-2 Mar 2008 USA F5, Harlingen Futures Hard Nicholas Monroe Brian Battistone
Dann Battistone
6-3, 6-1
Win 5-2 Apr 2008 Baton Rouge, United States Challenger Hard Tim Smyczek Ryan Harrison
Michael Venus
2-6, 6-1, [10-4]
Loss 5-3 Mar 2009 Great Britain F3, Tipton Futures Hard Scott Oudsema Dan Evans
Henri Kontinen
7-6(7-5), 6-7(4-7), [4-10]
Loss 5-4 Aug 2009 Netherlands F4, Enschede Futures Clay Colt Gaston Boy Westerhof
Antal van der Duim
5-7, 2-6
Win 6-4 Oct 2009 France F17, Nevers Futures Hard Colt Gaston Vladimir Obradović
Andreas Siljeström
6-4, 7-6(7-3)
Loss 6-5 Sep 2010 Canada F4, Toronto Futures Hard Brendan Evans Brett Joelson
Ashwin Kumar
6-3, 3-6, [7-10]
Win 7-5 May 2012 USA F12, Orange Park Futures Clay Fritz Wolmarans Benjamin Rogers
John-Patrick Smith
6-3, 6-7(5-7), [12-10]
Win 8-5 Jun 2012 USA F14, Sacramento Futures Hard Vahid Mirzadeh Nicolas Meister
Pedro Zerbini
6-4, 3-6, [11-9]

05Performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RRQ# DNQ A NH

Singles

Tournament20042005200620072008200920102011SRW-LWin %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A A Q1 A A A A 0 / 0 0-0  ,  
French Open A A Q1 A A A A A 0 / 0 0-0  ,  
Wimbledon A A Q1 Q1 A A A A 0 / 0 0-0  ,  
US Open Q1 A 1R Q1 A A A A 0 / 1 0-1 0%
Win-loss 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 / 1 0-1 0%
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells A A Q1 A A A A Q1 0 / 0 0-0  ,  
Miami Q1 A A Q1 A A A A 0 / 0 0-0  ,  
Cincinnati Q1 A A A A A A A 0 / 0 0-0  ,  
Win-loss 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 / 0 0-0  ,  
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