Pat DuPré

Patrick Marie DuPré
Country (sports)	United States
Residence	Savannah, Georgia
Born	September 16, 1954 (age 66); Liège, Belgium
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Turned pro	1972
Retired	1984
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$533,743
Singles
Career record	178–196
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 12 (June 9, 1980)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	4R (1980, 1981)
French Open	3R (1983)
Wimbledon	SF (1979)
US Open	QF (1979)
Doubles
Career record	121–144
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	No. 30 (March 3, 1980)

Patrick DuPré (born September 16, 1954) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.

Personal[]

While on tour, DuPré resided in La Jolla, California. As of 2012 DuPré and his wife, Rhonda, live in Savannah, Georgia.

Of the winning 1973 Stanford tennis team, DuPré, Roscoe Tanner, and Sandy Mayer were members of the Zeta Psi fraternity.

Tennis career[]

Juniors[]

While at Mountain Brook High School, he was a three-time Alabama state singles champion. In 1971, he was ranked second in the United States in the boys' 18 singles.

In 1972, DuPré won the national junior singles championship and was top ranked in both singles and doubles nationally. He attended Stanford University and was an All-American for four years. In 1973 and 1974, Stanford won two National Collegiate Athletics Association national championships.

Pro tour[]

On the professional tour, DuPré won one ATP Tour singles title (the Hong Kong Open in 1982) and four doubles titles. He was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1995^[1] and was the first tennis player ever to be brought in.

DuPré was a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 1979 and a quarterfinalist at the US Open. From 1979 through 1981, he was ranked in the top 20 in the world, reaching as high as No. 12 in June 1980.

References[]

^ "Alabama Sports Hall of Fame". Ashof.org. Retrieved January 17, 2013.

External links[]

[1] "Alabama Sports Hall of Fame". Ashof.org. Retrieved January 17, 2013.

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