Robbie Weiss (born December 1, 1966) is a former tour professional tennis player and NCAA Division I singles champion. The resident of Las Vegas achieved a career-high ATP ranking in singles of world No. 85, which he reached on the heels of winning his only ATP Tour event, the 1990 São Paulo Grand Prix. He also won, partnering Ricky Brown, the 1984 Wimbledon Championships junior doubles title.
Weiss played just a few tournaments on the ITF Junior Circuit, and his only notable junior success was winning the Wimbledon doubles crown in '84 partnering Brown. They won the final over Jonas Svensson and Mark Kratzmann despite losing the first set 1–6. As a collegian, Weiss won the 1988 NCAA Division I singles title despite being ranked only No. 48 in that year's preseason rankings. He did win however three singles tournaments to raise his ranking to No. 1 entering the singles championship. In the title match, Weiss defeated UCLA's Brian Garrow 6–2, 4–6, 6–3 to become the first Pepperdine University player to win a singles title. Weiss was an All-American selection 1986 and again in 1988. In '86 the Waves lost the team championship finals to Stanford.
Turning pro shortly after winning the NCAA individual title, Weiss scored tour singles match wins over at the time World No. 19 Tim Mayotte and No. 31 Karel Nováček both on grass courts in 1990, over World No. 6 Ivan Lendl and No. 21 Henrik Holm on hard courts in 1993, World No. 14 Boris Becker on hard courts in 1994, and most impressively over World No. 2 Stefan Edberg on hard courts in 1992. He won a main draw round at the 1993 Australian Open, over World No. 64 Richey Reneberg, 6–2 in the fifth. In addition to his Grand Prix event triumph in São Paulo in 1990, when he beat Jaime Yzaga in the final despite dropping the first set, Weiss took three Challenger event titles - Itu-São Paulo in November 1992; Palm Springs in 1993; and Granby in 1995.
In doubles, Weiss reached a career-high ranking of World No. 271 in June 1989. He won one Challenger - 1989 Salou, partnering Conny Falk.
Weiss is Jewish, and resided during his junior days in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
ATP career finals
Singles: 1 (1 title) LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP World Tour Masters Series (0–0)ATP Championship Series (0–0)ATP World Series (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (1–0)Indoors (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0São Paulo, BrazilGrand PrixCarpet Jaime Yzaga3–6, 7–6(9–7), 6–3
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 7 (3–4) LegendATP Challenger (3–4)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (3–4)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Aptos, United StatesChallengerHard Mark Kaplan4–6, 4–6Loss0–2Seattle, United StatesChallengerHard MaliVai Washington4–6, 3–6Loss0–3Martinique, MartiniqueChallengerHard Guillaume Raoux6–3, 3–6, 3–6Win1–3Itu, BrazilChallengerHard Roger Smith3–6, 6–3, 6–4Win2–3Rancho Mirage, United StatesChallengerHard David Nainkin6–1, 6–4Loss2–4Cincinnati, United StatesChallengerHard Doug Flach6–7, 7–6, 4–6Win3–4Granby, CanadaChallengerHard Sargis Sargsian6–2, 6–2
Doubles: 1 (1–0) LegendATP Challenger (1–0)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Salou, SpainChallengerClay Conny Falk Per Henricsson Nicklas Utgren5–7, 7–6, 6–4
Junior Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 1 (1 title) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1984WimbledonGrass Ricky Brown Mark Kratzmann Jonas Svensson1–6, 6–4, 11–9
Performance timelines
Singles Tournament19881989199019911992199319941995SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAQ1A1RQ32R1RQ20 / 31–3French OpenAAAAA1RQ1Q10 / 10–1WimbledonAAAAQ21R1RA0 / 20–2US Open1R1RAA2R1R2RQ30 / 52–5Win–loss0–10–10–00–11–11–41–30–00 / 113–11ATP Masters SeriesIndian Wells1RAAAA1R2RA0 / 31–3MiamiAAAA4R1R2RQ30 / 34–3CanadaAAAA2RA1RA0 / 21–2CincinnatiAAAAA1RAA0 / 10–1Win–loss0–10–00–00–04–20–32–30–00 / 96–9
See also
List of select Jewish tennis players
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