Greg Jones (tennis)

Greg Jones

Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Born	(1989-01-31) 31 January 1989 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	2007
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$330,527
Singles
Career record	1–6 (Grand Slam, ATP Tour level, and Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 179 (26 April 2010)
Current ranking	No. 675 (1 August 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2012)
French Open	Q3 (2012)
US Open	Q1 (2013)
Doubles
Career record	4–8
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 216 (1 November 2010)
Current ranking	No. 740 (1 August 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2013)
Last updated on: 6 August 2016.

Greg Jones

Medal record
Representing  Australia
Men's Tennis
Commonwealth Games
	2010 Delhi	Singles

Greg Jones (born 1989) is an Australian professional tennis player.

Early life

Born in Sydney, Jones is an only child. He is the son of Russell Jones, a quantity surveyor, and Donna Jones, a teacher. He competed in the Sydney GPS Schools tennis competition representing the Shore school, before eventually forgoing his school education to pursue his tennis career.

Jones competed in a number of high-profile events throughout his junior career including all four of the junior grand slams, most notably making the final of the 2007 French Open.

In 2007, Jones, having reached the finals of the junior event at the French Open, a semifinal at Wimbledon and a quarterfinal finish at the Australian Open, was very hopeful for a win at the last US Open Junior event, which was his last match in the International Tennis Federation Junior Competition.

Jones had a Junior career high ranking of 4 and won 191 out of 219 matches.

Professional career

Jones began playing professional tournaments in 2006. In his fourth ever professional event he made the final of the Burnie challenger in Tasmania, before spending time overseas in future events in an attempt to improve his ranking. Jones finished 2007 ranked 386, given his youth and ranking he was given wildcards into the 2008 Adelaide International qualifying draw, the 2008 Medibank International (which was his first ATP Tour main draw event^[1])and the 2008 Australian Open qualifying draw. The highlight of 2008 for Jones was winning his first futures title in USA and he finished the year ranked 434.

2009 saw Jones compete in all the Australian ATP events again in January, but he was unable to qualify for any of the main draw in either Brisbane, Sydney or the Australian Open. Jones won his second future tournament of his career in April 2009 in Australia, before heading overseas to play in both challengers and futures tournament which was highlighted by a challenger semifinal in Russia.

2010 started slowly for Jones, who once again was unable to qualify for Brisbane, Sydney or the Australian Open. In February he was able to make a second finals appearance at the challenger tournament in Burnie, going down to rising star Bernard Tomic in the final,^[2] Jones continued his good form with a finals showing in an Australian futures tournament two weeks later. On 10 October 2010, Jones won silver for Australia in the Men's Tennis in the Commonwealth Games 2010 at Delhi, losing to India's Somdev Devvarman in the gold medal match played at the R.K. Khanna tennis stadium. The score was 6–4 6–2.

Singles finals

No.	Outcome	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	Runner-up	5 February 2007	Burnie Challenger	Hard	Nathan Healey	5–7, 4–6
2.	Winner	5 May 2008	Orange Park United States	Clay	Clint Thomson	6–4, 6–2
3.	Runner-up	14 July 2008	Great Britain F10, Great Britain	Clay	Michel Koning	4–6, 3–6
4.	Runner-up	20 October 2008	Australia F10, Australia;	Hard	Marinko Matosevic	1–6, 6–73–7
5.	Runner-up	27 April 2009	Australia F3, Australia	Clay	Jose Statham	6-4, 4-6, 1-6
6.	Winner	4 May 2009	Australia F4, Australia	Clay	Jose Statham	7–5, 7–6(8–6)
7.	Runner-up	1 February 2010	Burnie Challenger	Hard	Bernard Tomic	6–4, 6–2
8.	Runner-up	22 February 2010	Australia F2, Australia	Grass	John Millman	6-1, 4-6, 4-6
9.	Runner-up	16 May 2011	Fergana Challenger, Uzbekistan	Hard	Dudi Sela	2-6, 1-6
10.	Runner-up	6 February 2012	Caloundra Challenger, Australia	Hard	Marinko Matosevic	0-6, 2-6
11.	Runner-up	1 July 2013	Mantra Challenger, Ecuador	Hard	Michael Russell	6–4, 0–6, 5–7
12.	Winner	7 October 2013	Australia F9, Australia	Hard	Jordan Thompson	3–6, 7–5, 6–1

References

1. ↑ Jones learns a lifetime of lessons in 75 minutes
2. ↑ Battle heats up for Davis Cup places

External links

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• Greg Jones at the Association of Tennis Professionals