Grant Doyle (born 9 January 1974) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. He is the CEO and owner of Advantage Doyle Tennis Academies.
Junior career Doyle won four junior Grand Slam titles during his early years. He and partner Joshua Eagle were boys' doubles champions at the 1991 Australian Open. In 1992, he became the number one ranked junior in the world. With new partner Brad Sceney, Doyle won the doubles again in the 1992 Australian Open and was also the singles champion, dropping just two games in his defeat of Brian Dunn in the final. He was a doubles winner at the 1992 French Open, partnering Mexican Enrique Abaroa and won the singles title in that year's Queen's Junior Championships.
ATP Tour Doyle was a doubles semi-finalist in the 1993 Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships, held in Adelaide, with Eagle as his partner.
As a singles player, he had his best result at the 1997 Sybase Open in San Jose, California, making the quarter-finals, with wins over Brian MacPhie and Jeff Tarango.
Doyle made eight main draw appearances in singles at Grand Slam level. Although he didn't ever proceed past the first round, he came close when he lost 5–7 in the fifth set to Wayne Black at the 1995 Australian Open and also in another five-set loss at the 1996 French Open, to Greg Rusedski, with the same fifth set score.
Every year from 1991 to 1999, Doyle appeared in the men's doubles at the Australian Open. He twice reached the round of 16, with Eagle in 1992 and later partnering Ben Ellwood in the 1999 Australian Open. His run with Ellwood included a win over 12th seeds Donald Johnson and Francisco Montana.
Coaching Doyle is currently coaching young American Ryan Harrison and has previously worked as the coach of Sam Querrey.
Junior Grand Slam finals
Singles: 1 (1 title) ResultYearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1992Australian OpenHard Brian Dunn6–2, 6–0
Doubles: 3 (3 titles) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnetOpponentsScoreWin1991Australian OpenHard Joshua Eagle James Holmes Paul Kilderry7–6, 6–4Win1992Australian OpenHard Bradley Sceney Lex Carrington Jason Thompson6–4, 6–4Win1992French OpenClay Enrique Abaroa Yevgeny Kafelnikov Alex Rădulescu7–6(7–0), 6–3
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 2 (0–2) LegendATP Challenger (0–1)ITF Futures (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1West Bloomfield, United StatesChallengerHard Alex O'Brien6–4, 3–6, 4–6Loss0–2Ireland F1, DublinFuturesCarpet Kristian Pless3–6, 7–6(7–5), 1–6
Doubles: 11 (5–6) LegendATP Challenger (4–5)ITF Futures (1–1)Finals by surfaceHard (3–5)Clay (2–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Aptos, United StatesChallengerHard Cristiano Caratti Gilad Bloom Christian Saceanu5–7, 3–6Loss0–2Bronx, United StatesChallengerHard Wayne Arthurs Johan de Beer Kevin Ullyett6–7, 6–7Win1–2Bochum, GermanyChallengerClay Michael Tebbutt Andrew Florent Aleksandar Kitinov4–6, 7–6, 7–6Win2–2Cincinnati, United StatesChallengerHard Paul Kilderry Brian Gyetko Kevin Ullyett6–3, 6–4Loss2–3Perth, AustraliaChallengerHard Andrew Kratzmann James Holmes Andrew Painter5–7, 4–6Loss2–4Weiden, GermanyChallengerClay Myles Wakefield Geoff Grant Mark Merklein4–6, 6–7Win3–4Granby, CanadaChallengerHard Mark Merklein Eyal Erlich Lorenzo Manta7–5, 6–3Win4–4Edinburgh, United KingdomChallengerClay Wayne Arthurs James Holmes Chris Haggard4–6, 6–2, 6–2Loss4–5Amarillo, United StatesChallengerHard Andrew Painter Bob Bryan Mike Bryan4–6, 2–6Win5–5USA F8, Little RockFuturesHard Frédéric Niemeyer Pieter Calitz Jeff Williams6–2, 6–2Loss5–6USA F9, Mt. PleasantFuturesHard James Greenhalgh Gavin Sontag Jerry Turek6–7(3–7), 5–7
Performance timelines
Singles Tournament19901991199219931994199519961997199819992000SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenQ3Q11R1RQ11RA1RQ1Q2Q30 / 40–4French OpenAAAAQ2Q11RQ1Q1AA0 / 10–1WimbledonAA1R1RQ3Q2Q3Q3Q3Q1A0 / 20–2US OpenAAQ3Q21RQ3Q1Q3Q1AA0 / 10–1Win–loss0–00–00–20–20–10–10–10–10–00–00–00 / 80–8ATP Masters SeriesIndian WellsAAAAAQ1AAAAA0 / 00–0MiamiAAAAAQ2AQ1AAA0 / 00–0RomeAAAAQ3AAAAAA0 / 00–0CincinnatiAAA1RQ1AAAAAA0 / 10–1Win–loss0–00–00–00–10–00–00–00–00–00–00–00 / 10–1
Doubles Tournament199119921993199419951996199719981999SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian Open2R3R1R2R1R1R1R2R3R0 / 97–9French OpenAAAAAAAAA0 / 00–0WimbledonQ2AQ21R1RQ3Q2Q1Q10 / 20–2US OpenAAAQ1AAAAA0 / 00–0Win–loss1–12–10–11–20–20–10–11–12–10 / 117–11ATP Masters SeriesMiamiAAAA2RAAAA0 / 11–1CincinnatiAAA1RAAAAA0 / 10–1Win–loss0–00–00–00–11–10–00–00–00–00 / 21–2
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