Paul Rosner (born 11 December 1972) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.
Career From 1991 to 1995, Rosner competed in the United States, playing for University of Alabama at Birmingham in NCAA Men's Tennis Championship. He was an All-American on three occasions.Profile on Birmingham-Southern Website
A doubles specialist, Rosner won 11 men's tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour. He won one ATP World Tour title, at Bologna, Italy in 1998, with American Brandon Coupe.ATP World Tour Profile
Rosner entered into the Men's doubles draw of 13 Grand Slams but only twice made it past the first round. The first time was in the 1998 Wimbledon Championships, when he and partner David DiLucia reached the second round, by defeating Nicolás Lapentti and Javier Sánchez in four sets. In the 1999 Wimbledon Championships he went further, this time partnering countryman Chris Haggard. The pair made the round of 16, after two straight sets victories, but then fell to Ellis Ferreira and Rick Leach.ITF Tennis Profile
After he left the tour he became head coach of the tennis program at Birmingham–Southern College.
In 2011, he left Birmingham–Southern to become the Mountain Brook Club head tennis director.
ATP career finals Doubles: 1 (1–0) ResultW-LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1–0 Jun 1998 Bologna, Italy Clay Brandon Coupe Giorgio Galimberti Massimo Valeri 7–6, 6–3
Challenger titles Doubles: (11) No.YearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore1.1996Scheveningen, NetherlandsClay Brandon Coupe Martijn Bok Dennis van Scheppingen6–1, 3–6, 6–02.1997Fürth, GermanyClay Brandon Coupe Martin Sinner Joost Winnink7–5, 6–33.1997Braunschweig, GermanyClay Brandon Coupe Nebojsa Djordjevic Óscar Ortiz6–4, 6–34.1998Budapest, HungaryClay Chris Haggard Diego del Río Grant Silcock6–4, 6–25.2000Bratislava, SlovakiaHard Paul Hanley Jonathan Erlich Aleksandar Kitinov6–4, 6–46.2001Bucharest, RomaniaClay Mark Merklein Ionuț Moldovan Yuri Schukin6–4, 6–47.2001Houston, United StatesHard Jeff Coetzee Justin Bower Shaun Rudman7–6(7–2), 6–48.2001Tyler, United StatesHard Stephen Huss Mardy Fish Jeff Morrison6–4, 6–29.2002Hamburg, GermanyCarpet Mark Merklein Wesley Moodie Shaun Rudman6–3, 6–410.2002 Calabasas, United StatesHard Glenn Weiner Justin Gimelstob Paul Goldstein6–2, 4–6, 7–6(7–4)11.2002Córdoba, SpainHard Ota Fukárek Emilio Benfele Álvarez Dušan Vemić7–6(9–7), 6–4
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