Patrick Du Pré is a former professional male tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player from the United States.

Du Pré won one ATP Tour singles title (the Hong Kong Open

Hong Kong Open (tennis)

The Hong Kong Open is a defunct tennis tournament that was held in Hong Kong on the Grand Prix tour from and the ATP Tour from...

 in 1982) and four doubles titles. He grew up in Mountain Brook, Alabama

Mountain Brook, Alabama

Mountain Brook is a city in southeastern Jefferson County, Alabama, and a suburb of Birmingham. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 20,821. Mountain Brook is a particularly affluent city within the Birmingham metropolitan area and has appeared in several lists...

, graduating from Mountain Brook High School

Mountain Brook High School

Mountain Brook High School is a three-year public high school within the city of Mountain Brook, Alabama, a residential area of Birmingham, with approximately 20,600 residents. It is the lone high school in the Mountain Brook School System and is situated on of land.Mountain Brook High School...

. He was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1995 and was the first tennis player ever to be brought in. While at Mountain Brook High School, he was a three-time Alabama state singles champion. In 1971, he was ranked second in the United States in the boys' 18 singles.

In 1972 Du Pré won the national junior singles championship and was top ranked in both singles and doubles nationally. He attended Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 and was an All-American for four years, and in 1973 and 1974, Stanford won two National Collegiate Athletics Association national championships.

Of the winning 1973 Stanford tennis team, Du Pré, Roscoe Tanner

Roscoe Tanner

Roscoe Tanner is an American former professional tennis player, who turned pro in 1972 and reached a career high world singles ranking of World No...

, and Sandy Mayer

Sandy Mayer

Alexander "Sandy" Mayer is a former tennis player from the United States, who won ten titles in singles and twenty-four titles in doubles during his professional career. He was part of the winning tennis squad at Stanford University in 1973....

 were members of the Zeta Psi

Zeta Psi

The Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America was founded June 1, 1847 as a social college fraternity. The organization now comprises about fifty active chapters and twenty-five inactive chapters, encompassing roughly fifty thousand brothers, and is a founding member of the North-American...

 fraternity.

On the professional tour, Du Pré was a semifinalist at Wimbledon

The Championships, Wimbledon

The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...

 in 1979 and a quarter-finalist at the US Open. From 1979 through 1981, he was ranked in the top 20 in the world, reaching as high as World No. 12.

While on tour Du Pré resided in La Jolla, California.

Du Pré has a wife, Rhonda, and son Joshua, in Savannah, GA.

External links

• Stanford Men's Tennis