Mark Keil

Mark Keil

Country	United States
Residence	Honolulu, HI
Born	3 June 1967 Mountain View, California, USA
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	81 kg (180 lb)
Turned pro	1988
Retired	2001
Plays	Right-handed
Career prize money	$749,587
Singles
Career record	4–8
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	167 (22 July 1991)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2R (1993)
French Open	-
Wimbledon	1R (1991, 1993)
US Open	-
Doubles
Career record	157–205
Career titles	5
Highest ranking	32 (2 October 1995)
Last updated on: 15 April 2007.

Mark Keil (born June 3, 1967, in Mountain View, California) is a former professional tennis player from the United States and now tennis coach who won 5 ATP World Tour doubles tournaments and was runner up at 8 more.

Early life and college

Prior to college, Keil was the 1985 New Mexico AAAA state singles champion. He played in the USTA Boy's 16's & 18's National Championships in Kalamazoo, Michigan. At the Easter Bowl junior tournament in Miami, Fla in '84 he once had dinner with Arthur Ashe. He also played the Orange Bowl International ITF junior tennis tournament in '85.

Keil turned pro in the middle of his junior year at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

Professional career

One of Keil's greatest moments came in a 6–2, 7–6(2) defeat of Pete Sampras, then ranked 8th in the world at the Queen's Club ATP World Tour event in 1991. Keil went on to play in the main draw at Wimbledon twice and reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 167. He qualified and won a round in singles at the '93 Australian Open.

Keil later carved a career for himself on the doubles tour, reaching a career-high ranking of No. 32 in 1995. He has doubles wins over Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker, Todd Martin, Tommy Haas, Andre Agassi, Gustavo Kuerten and Mark Philippoussis. He won five ATP World Tour doubles titles in his career.

He also directed and produced and wrote along with Geoff Grant a film documenting life behind the scenes for a tour professional. The Journeymen follows Keil and his doubles partner Geoff Grant as they try to make a living on the doubles tour.

Family

His father, Klaus Keil is an award winning professor at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Asteroid 5054 Keil, and the mineral keilite are named after Klaus.

Keil was married from '99-'01 to Swedish dentist Dr. Camilla Hildebrand, which ended in a divorce. He also has a former touring tennis professional sister, Kathrin Keil.

Playing History

• 1985: New Mexico AAAA state singles champion.
• 1985-1989: Played collegiately for the University of South Florida.
• 1988-2001: ATP/ITF touring tennis player. Won five ATP World Tour doubles titles, one Challenger singles (Djakarta, Indonesia) and Futures title (Tyler, Texas.) Has a German passport and played for Iphitos Munchen, Mannheim, Weiden, Ravensburg, Neu Ulm, and Bad Cannstadt, in Germany.
• Team member of SALK Tennishallen, which won the Swedish indoor tennis championships '98.
• HKTA Men's Premier League Champion's Winter League '05 and Summer League '06 for SCAA club, Hong Kong, China.
• 2009 #1 Men's 35 Singles, #8 Men's Open Singles, and #3 Mixed Open Doubles w/Bryne USTA New England.

Coaching History

• 2001-2002: Assistant tennis teaching professional La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, CA. Has three coaching credentials: USPTA Certified '04, PTR Certified '06, USTA High Performance Coaching Program Graduate Cincinnati, OH '04.
• 2002-2003; Touring traveling coach for ITF/ATP player Jeff Salzenstein.
• 2003-2004: Traveling tour coach with Ed Ward for ITF/WTA/ Ireland Fed Cup member Anne Mall.
• 2004-2005: National Coach Hong Kong Tennis Association.
• 2005-2006: Volunteer men's assistant tennis coach UCLA.
• 2006-2008: Tennis teaching professional Bosse Sports, Sudbury, MA, coaching junior standouts Roy, Thompson, Roelofse, Potvin, Frenkel, and touring pro Butorac.
• 2008: Senior tennis coach Westboro Swim and Tennis, Westboro, MA, coaching junior standout Kelleher.
• 2009: Head Women's and Men's Tennis Coach Post University, Waterbury, CT and assistant teaching pro Country Club of Waterbury.
• 2010–present: Director and Coach of the Hangloose Tennis Academy, Honolulu, HI.
• Summer 2011: Tennis Director Camp Weequahic, Lakewood, PA.

ATP Tour titles (5)

Doubles (5)

Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
2 March 1992	Scottsdale, U.S.	Hard	Dave Randall	Kent Kinnear & Sven Salumaa	4–6 6–1 6–2
1 March 1993	Scottsdale, USA	Hard	Dave Randall	Luke Jensen & Sandon Stolle	7–5, 6–4
4 April 1993	Osaka, Japan	Hard	Christo van Rensburg	Glenn Michibata & David Pate	7–6 6–3
12 March 1995	Copenhagen, Denmark	Carpet	Peter Nyborg	Guillaume Raoux & Greg Rusedski	6–7 6–4 7–6
12 March 1995	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Jeff Tarango	Cyril Suk & Daniel Vacek	6–4 7–6

Doubles Finalist (8)

Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
3 March 1992	Atlanta, U.S.	Clay	Dave Randall	Steve DeVries & David Macpherson	3–6 3–6
8 November 1992	Buzios, Brazil	Hard	Tom Mercer	Maurice Ruah & Mario Tabares	6–7 7–6 4–6
1 October 1995	Basel, Switzerland	Hard	Peter Nyborg	Cyril Suk & Daniel Vacek	6–3 3–6 3–6
2 February 1997	Zagreb, Croatia	Carpet	Brent Haygarth	Saša Hiršzon & Goran Ivanišević	4–6 3–6
24 August 1997	Long Island, U.S.	Hard	T.J. Middleton	Marcos Ondruska & David Prinosil	4–6 4–6
8 February 1998	Marseilles, France	Hard	T.J. Middleton	Donald Johnson & Francisco Montana	4–6 6–3 3–6
2 May 1999	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Nicolás Lapentti	Martin Damm & Radek Štěpánek	0–6 2–6
19 September 1999	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Lorenzo Manta	Oleg Ogorodov & Marc Rosset	6–74 6–71

External links

• Mark Keil at the Association of Tennis Professionals