Full name Russell Barlow Plays Left-handed Career titles 0 | Country (sports) Australia Career record 3–9 Prize money 61,805 USD | |
Born 18 December 1962 (age 54)
Toowoomba, Queensland ( 1962-12-18 ) Highest ranking No. 175 (9 October 1989) | ||
Russell Barlow (born 18 December 1962) is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
Biography
Barlow, a left-handed player from Toowoomba, twice finished runner-up at the Australian Junior Championships, in the Under-14s and Under-16s age groups. He made the quarter-finals of the boy's event at the 1980 Australian Open.
During the 1980s, Barlow competed professionally on the international circuit. He had Grand Prix wins over Kim Warwick at the GWA Mazda Tennis Classic in Brisbane in 1983, Wojciech Fibak in the 1985 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse and Magnus Gustafsson, seventh seed at the 1988 Donnay Indoor Championships in Brussels. At the 1988 Australian Open he qualified for the main draw of a Grand Slam for the only time and lost in the first round to West German Carl-Uwe Steeb.
As a doubles player his best result came when he made the semi-finals with Carl Limberger at Bordeaux in 1985. He played doubles at the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon Championships. In 1987, his only appearance at Wimbledon, he and partner Harald Rittersbacher were drawn against top seeds Guy Forget and Yannick Noah in the opening round.
In 1989 he won two Challenger titles, the first at Croydon, in the doubles event with Swede Ville Jansson. He then claimed the singles title at Singapore, over Neil Borwick in the final, just weeks after he finished runner-up to the same player in Kuala Lumpur.
A member of the ATP board in the 1990s, Barlow also worked as an ATP executive in Montreal. He is now involved in coaching.