Ashley Fisher

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Ashley Fisher

Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	St Petersburg, Florida
Born	(1975-09-25) 25 September 1975 New South Wales, Australia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	1998
Retired	17 October 2011
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$778,883
Singles
Career record	0–0
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 489 (24 July 2000)
Doubles
Career record	139–166
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	No. 19 (22 June 2009)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2006)
French Open	3R (2009)
Wimbledon	QF (2004)
US Open	SF (2006)

Ashley Fisher (born 25 September 1975) is a professional tennis player who comes from New South Wales in Australia. Fisher turned professional in 1998. Fisher has never played a major singles match on the ATP Tour, but has won four notable doubles titles on tour. The doubles specialist reached his highest doubles ranking of World Number 19 on 22 June 2009. He has reached the 2006 U.S. Open men's doubles semi-finals. Fisher is currently the head coach of the University of South Florida men's tennis team.

Career

Before turning professional, Fisher played college tennis at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was a two time All-American for the Horned Frogs.

Fisher also reached the 2006 U.S. Open men's doubles semifinals alongside Tripp Phillips, where they lost to Jonas Björkman and Max Mirnyi, 6–1, 6–4. Fisher and Nikolay Davydenko were Wimbledon men's doubles quarterfinalists in 2004, where they lost to Jonas Björkman and Todd Woodbridge. He has won a total of 26 doubles titles, with 23 minor league Challengers and Futures events on the International Tennis Federation.

Fisher won his first ATP doubles title in Amersfoort with Devin Bowen, where they defeated Chris Haggard and André Sá 6–0, 6–4. His other two ATP titles were with different partners.

Personal

Fisher was born to mother Pamela and father Gary, and has two older siblings. Fisher started playing tennis at age five.

He currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida and is coached by Glenn Irwin.

In July 2016, Fisher was promoted to head coach for the Division 1 nationally ranked University of South Florida Bulls Men's Tennis Team replacing Matt Hill.

ATP Doubles titles

Doubles wins (4)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP International Series Gold (1) ATP Tour (3)

Titles by Surface Hard (18) Clay (8) Grass (0) Carpet (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	14 July 2003	Amersfoort, Netherlands	Clay	Devin Bowen	Chris Haggard André Sá	6–0, 6–4
2.	2 October 2006	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Tripp Phillips	Paul Goldstein Jim Thomas	6–2, 7–5
3.	10 September 2007	Beijing, China	Hard	Rik de Voest	Chris Haggard Yen-Hsun Lu	6–7(3–7), 6–0, [10–6]
4.	20 July 2008	Indianapolis, United States	Hard	Tripp Phillips	Scott Lipsky David Martin	3–6, 6–3, [10–5]

Grand Slam Men's Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Australian Open	A	A	1R	1R	3R	3R	1R	3R	QF	2R	A	2R	A	1R	A	0 / 10	11–10
French Open	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	3R	A	3R	1R	0 / 11	5–11
Wimbledon	A	A	Q1	1R	1R	2R	QF	2R	3R	1R	2R	1R	A	3R	1R	0 / 11	10–11
US Open	A	A	Q2	Q1	1R	1R	2R	1R	SF	1R	3R	1R	A	1R	1R	0 / 10	7–10
Grand Slam SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 0	0 / 4	0 / 3	N / A	0 / 41
Grand Slam Win-Loss	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–3	2–4	4–4	4–4	3–4	9–4	1–4	3–3	3–4	0–0	4–4	0–3	N / A	33–41

External links

• Ashley Fisher at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Ashley Fisher at Tennis Australia