The United States Amateur Tennis Championships was the top American tennis tournament for amateur players. It was organized by the

United States Tennis Association The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national governing body for tennis in the United States. A not-for-profit organization with more than 700,000 members, it invests 100% of its proceeds to promote and develop the growth of tennis, ...

. The tournament began in 1968 to create an amateur championship in addition to the US Open that was designated a professional event that year for the first time. That first year UCLA student

Arthur Ashe Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was an American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles. He started to play tennis at six years old. He was the first black player selected to the Unite ...

won the US Amateur and then went on to win the US Open the same year. He is the only player to win both events in the same year and no one has come close since. In the years that followed, many winners received a wild card entry into the US Open qualifying event. From 1971 to 1980 the tournament was not held, but then in 1981 was started again. In addition to Ashe, numerous other well-known players have won the event, including former world #1 doubles player

Jim Pugh Jim Pugh (born February 5, 1964) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He grew up in Palos Verdes, California and at age 10 began taking tennis lessons from John Hillebrand. He played tennis at UCLA. He became a doubl ...

and former world #4 singles player

Roscoe Tanner Leonard Roscoe Tanner (born October 15, 1951) is a retired American tennis player, who turned professional in 1972 and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 on July 30, 1979. Tanner was famous for his big left-handed serve, which ...

. In 1995, the tournament changed its name to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Summer Championships.

Winners

{, class="wikitable" , - ! Year ! Winner ! College ! Runner-up ! Score , - , 1968 ,

, UCLA , Bob Lutz , 4-6, 6-3, 8-10, 6-0, 6-4 , - , 1969 ,

Stan Smith Stanley Roger Smith (born December 14, 1946) is an American former professional tennis player. Smith is best known to non-tennis players as the namesake of a popular brand of tennis shoes. A world No. 1 player and two-time major singles cham ...

, USC , Bob Lutz , 9-7, 6-3, 6-1 , - , 1970 ,

, Stanford ,

Haroon Rahim Haroon Rahim (born 12 November 1949) is a Pakistani former tennis player. The former Pakistan and Asian No. 1, Rahim was the youngest tennis player ever to play for Pakistan in the Davis Cup at 15 years of age. He was also the highest ranking P ...

, 3-6, 2-6, 6-1, 8-6, 10-8 , - , 1981 ,

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, UCLA ,

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, 6-2, 6-3 , - , 1982 , Tim Pawsat , Southern California , Stevenson Clarke , 6-4, 6-1 , - , 1983 , Allen Miller , Georgia , Eric Rosenfeld , 6-4, 6-2 , - , 1984 ,

, UCLA , Mark Styslinger , 6-0, 7-6 , - , 1985 ,

Bryan Shelton Bryan Shelton (born December 22, 1965) is an American college tennis coach and former professional tennis player. Shelton played collegiately for Georgia Tech from 1985 to 1988, and then played professionally from 1989 to 1997. He subsequently ...

, Georgia Tech , Doug Sachs , 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 , - , 1986 , Buff Farrow , UCLA , John Boytim , 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 , - , 1987 , Brian Page , Clemson ,

Eric Amend Eric Amend (born November 17, 1965) is an American former tennis player who represented the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Born in Berkeley, California, the right-hander did not win any ATP titles during his professional career reach ...

, 7-6 (4), 6-4 , - , 1988 , Marco Cacopardo , Tennessee , Robert Kresburg , 7-6 (1), 6-7 (2), 6-4 , - , 1989 , Joby Foley , West Virginia , Mike Salmon , 6-4, 6-3 , - , 1990 , Joel Finnigan , Arizona State , Warren Fulgenzi , 6-4, 6-3 , - , 1991 , Marco Cacopardo , Tennessee , David Driscoll , 6-3, 6-7 (9), 7-5 , - , 1992 , Chris Pressley , Duke , Andrew Weiss , 6-1, 6-2 , - , 1993 , Tad Berkowitz , New Mexico , Cris Robinson , 6-3, 7-6 (5) , - , 1994 , Jeff Landau , Wake Forest , Michael Berger , 6-4, 6-4 , - , 1995 , Marty Engel , Northern Illinois , Eric Elek , 3-6, 6-4, 6-0 , - , 1996 , Adam Peterson , Southern California , , , - , 1997 , Marc Silva , Northwestern , Eddie Jacques , 7-5, 7-5 , - , 1998 , Adam Seri , Georgia , Mark Loughrin , 6-2, 6-1 , - , 1999 , Huntley Montgomery , Virginia , Andre Pedroso , 7-6 (3), 6-3 , - , 2000 ,

Brian Vahaly Brian Vahaly (born July 19, 1979) is an American former professional tennis player and a graduate of University of Virginia. He reached the quarterfinals of the 2003 Indian Wells Masters (defeating world no. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero en route) an ...

, Virginia , , , - , 2001 , Wade Orr , Tennessee , , , - , 2002 , Wade Orr , Tennessee , , , - , 2003 , Chris Martin , Illinois , Ryan Recht , 6-1, 6-1 , - , 2004 , Avery Ticer , Minnesota , Chris Klingemann , 1-6, 6-1, 7-6 (2) , - , 2005 , Eric Langenkamp , Notre Dame , Eric Hechtman , 6-3, 6-1 , - , 2006 , Jordan Delass , Georgia Tech , Danny Bryan , 1-6, 7-5, 10-8 , - , 2007 , Chris Racz , Tennessee , Mike Sroczynski , 7-6, 6-1 , - , 2008 , Sanam Singh , Virginia ,

Jason Jung Jason Jung (; ; born 15 June 1989) is an American-born professional tennis player who represents Taiwan. He is a University of Michigan alumnus who has cracked the Top 150 in the ATP rankings and also won four ATP Challenger events. Pers ...

, 6-2, 6-1 , - , 2009 , Sanam Singh , Virginia , Benjamin Biscarrat , 6-4, 6-0 , - , 2010 , Thomas Richter , Unattached , Eliot Potvin , 6-3, 6-1 , - , 2011 , Stephen Hoh , Illinois , Daniel Whitehead , 5-7, 6-1, 1-0 (8)

External links

ITA Tennis SiteTennis Hall of Fame Arthur Ashe Bio
Defunct tennis tournaments in the United States Grass court tennis tournaments