Alex O'Brien (born ) is an American former
doubles world No. 1 tennis
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player. He gained the top ranking in May 2000 and was ranked as high as world No. 30 in singles in June 1997.
He won his only singles title at
New Haven, Connecticut
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, in 1996 and reached the quarterfinals of the
1994 Cincinnati Masters and the
1996 Canada Masters. He won 13 doubles titles, the biggest coming at the
1999 US Open, the
Cincinnati Masters in 1994 (his first doubles title), the
Indian Wells Masters in 2000, and the
Paris Masters
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in 1999.
Tennis career
Alongside his 13 titles, O'Brien also reached 20 doubles finals, including the
Australian Open
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in 1996 & 1997, the
U.S. Open in 1995, the
Miami Masters in 1998, and the
Canada Masters and the
Rome Masters
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in 1997.
He also played on the United States
Davis Cup
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team, competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and was a four-time All-American at
Stanford University
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, where he won NCAA singles, doubles, and team titles in 1992. He earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies at Stanford in 1992.
On leaving his tennis career O'Brien founded an online business which markets, and distributes steaks. The O'Brien family has been in the beef business for 60 years basing their production out of the
LIT Ranch. O'Brien is currently President and part owner of the Bank of Commerce, a small community online bank with branches in Amarillo and McLean Texas.
Grand Slam finals
Doubles (1 title, 3 runners-ups)
ATP career finals
Singles: 1 (1 title)
Doubles: 33 (13 titles, 20 runner-ups)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 9 (5–4)
Doubles: 7 (5–2)
Performance Timelines
Singles
Doubles
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1970 births
Living people
American male tennis players
Sportspeople from Amarillo, Texas
Stanford Cardinal men's tennis players
Tennis players from Texas
US Open (tennis) champions
Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles
Olympic tennis players for the United States
ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players
20th-century American sportsmen