Daniel Nguyen (born October 16, 1990) is an inactive tennis player. He is the first

Vietnamese American Vietnamese Americans ( vi, Người Mỹ gốc Việt, lit=Viet-origin American people) are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group after Chinese ...

to play in the US Open tennis tournament. He has won a total of 15 singles and 5 doubles Futures titles and 2 doubles Challenger titles as of December 2019. Daniel Nguyen is a graduate of

Santa Barbara High School Santa Barbara Senior High School, "Home of the Dons," is situated on a sprawling campus in Santa Barbara, California in the Santa Barbara Unified School District. Among the oldest high schools in California and one of five high schools in the Dis ...

and the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

(USC). Nguyen was part of the USC team that won the NCAA Team Championship title four consecutive years. Other accomplishments include winning the Boys 16s & 18s Doubles National Championships in Kalamazoo, being named the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player in his sophomore year, and clinching the 2009–10 and 2010-11 NCAA Championships for USC. In the 2009 US Open, he and former teammate

JT Sundling John Tyler Sundling (born January 18, 1991) is an American former tennis player. Sundling was raised in Thousand Oaks, California and earned a top five national ranking in junior tennis. He and Daniel Nguyen won the doubles title at the USTA na ...

were defeated 3–6, 6–2, 6–1 in the first-round of the men's doubles tournament by

Máximo González Máximo González Mereira (; born July 20, 1983, in Tandil) is an Argentine professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 58, achieved in July 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking is World No. 22 achieved on 22 Apr ...

and

Juan Mónaco Juan Mónaco (; born 29 March 1984), nicknamed "Pico", is an Argentine former tennis player. He won nine singles titles, reached the semifinals of the 2010 Shanghai Masters and the 2012 Miami Masters, and achieved a career-high singles ranking ...

. They qualified after winning the

Boy's Junior National Tennis Championship The Boys' Junior National Tennis Championship ( the USTA Boys 18s and 16s National Championships and nicknamed Nationals at the Zoo) takes place on the Kalamazoo College campus in Kalamazoo, Michigan. This United States Tennis Association (USTA) ...

Doubles Title in 2009.MLive: USTA doubles final: Daniel Nquyen, JT Sundling claim another title, August 15, 2009
Retrieved Jan. 14, 2014 Daniel Nguyen is playing for the Hai Dang - Tay Ninh team. He obtained Vietnamese citizenship on 28 October 2019 and has played under the Vietnamese flag since then. He won the silver medal in an all-Vietnamese men's singles final at the 30th SEA games in the Philippines in December 2019. His compatriot Ly Hoang Nam in the final won the first ever tennis gold medal for Vietnam.SEA games Vietnam wins first ever tennis gold
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Daniel Nguyen vows to return to US Open

Nguyen, Sundling push Argentinians at U.S. Open

on USC
Move to Santa Barbara works out for Nguyen

Photo gallery of Daniel Nguyen
1990 births American male tennis players Living people Sportspeople from Santa Barbara, California Tennis players from Long Beach, California USC Trojans men's tennis players American sportspeople of Vietnamese descent Sportspeople of Vietnamese descent Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games SEA Games medalists in tennis SEA Games silver medalists for Vietnam Vietnamese male tennis players SEA Games bronze medalists for Vietnam {{US-tennis-bio-stub