United States Amateur Championships (men's tennis)
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The United States Amateur Tennis Championships was the top American tennis tournament for amateur players. It was organized by the United States Tennis Association
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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
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 1971-1980 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
and former world #4 singles player Roscoe Tanner
.
In 1995, the tournament changed its name to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Summer Championships.
United States Tennis Association
The United States Tennis Association is the national governing body for the sport of 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, from the grass-roots to the professional levels...
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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 Ashe
Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. was a professional tennis player, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. During his career, he won three Grand Slam titles, putting him among the best ever from the United States...
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 1971-1980 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
Jim Pugh is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won three Grand Slam men's doubles titles and five Grand Slam mixed doubles titles . Pugh reached the World No...
and former world #4 singles player 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...
.
In 1995, the tournament changed its name to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Summer Championships.
Winners
| Year | Winner | College | Runner-up | Score | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Arthur Ashe Arthur Ashe Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. was a professional tennis player, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. During his career, he won three Grand Slam titles, putting him among the best ever from the United States... |
UCLA | Bob Lutz | 4-6, 6-3, 8-10, 6-0, 6-4 | ||||||
| 1969 | George Seewagen | Rice | Zan Guerry | 9-7, 6-3, 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 | ||||||
| 1970 | 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... |
Stanford | Haroon Rahim Haroon Rahim Haroon Rahim, is a Pakistani former tennis player. The former Pakistan and Asian number one, 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 Pakistani tennis player ever... |
3-6, 2-6, 6-1, 8-6, 10-8 | ||||||
| 1981 | Mark Basham | UCLA | Rick Leach Rick Leach ----Rick Leach is a former professional tennis player and a coach from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won 5 Grand Slam men's doubles titles , and 4 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles . Leach reached the World No... |
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 | Jim Pugh Jim Pugh Jim Pugh is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won three Grand Slam men's doubles titles and five Grand Slam mixed doubles titles . Pugh reached the World No... |
UCLA | Mark Styslinger | 6-0, 7-6 | ||||||
| 1985 | Bryan Shelton Bryan Shelton Bryan Shelton is a former tennis player from the United States who played collegiately for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets from 1985 to 1988 and professionally from 1989 to 1997. He subsequently returned to his alma mater to coach women's tennis. Shelton was inducted into the Georgia Tech Hall of... |
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 Eric Amend is a former tennis player from the United States, who participated in the 1984 Summer Olympics for his native country.... |
7-6, 6-4 | ||||||
| 1988 | Marco Cacopardo | Tennessee | Robert Kresburg | 7-6, 6-7, 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 | Mike Sell | 6-3, 6-7, 6-3 | ||||||
| 1992 | Chris Pressley | Duke | Andrew Weiss | 6-1, 6-2 | ||||||
| 1993 | Tad Berkowitz | New Mexico | Cris Robinson | 6-3, 7-6 | ||||||
| 1994 | Jeff Landau Jeff Landau Jeff Landau is a former American professional tennis player from Ridgefield, Connecticut. He was a four year starter on the Wake Forest University tennis team, where he won the 1994 United States Amateur Championships... |
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, 6-3 | ||||||
| 2000 | Brian Vahaly Brian Vahaly Brian Vahaly is a former American professional tennis player and graduate of the Mcintire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.-Early career:... |
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 | 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) |