- Nicholas Monroe
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Nicholas Monroe 
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United StatesResidence Manhattan Beach, California Born April 12, 1982 [citation needed]
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma[citation needed]Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) Turned pro 2004 Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand) Career prize money $123,410 Singles Career record 0–0 (ATP Tour or Davis Cup) Career titles 0 Highest ranking No. 280 (Jule 28, 2008) Current ranking No. 343 (February 14, 2011) Grand Slam results Australian Open Q2 (2007) French Open DNP Wimbledon Q1 (2008) US Open Q1 (2008) Doubles Career record 0–0 Career titles 0 Highest ranking No. 170 (May 18, 2009) Grand Slam Doubles results Australian Open DNP French Open DNP Wimbledon DNP US Open DNP Last updated on: September 12, 2009. Medal record Tennis Competitor for United StatesPan American Games Bronze 2011 Guadalajara Doubles Benjamin Nicholas "Nick" Monroe (born April 12, 1982, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American professional tennis player. He has won three ATP Challenger titles in his career.[1]
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College career
Monroe had a highly successful college career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2000 to 2004. His achievements include:
The University of North Carolina's Senior Male Student-Athlete of the Year (2003–2004) • All-American Status (2003–2004) • All-ACC Status (2002–2004) • 2nd in All-time Singles Wins (100) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • Recipient of the Arthur Ashe Regional Sportsmanship Award (2003–2004) • National and Regional NCAA/ITF John Van Nostrand Sportsmanship Awards (2003–2004).
Professional career
2001
Nicholas competed in doubles in his first ever tour main draw match.[citation needed] He and partner (compatriot) Tripp Phillips lost in the first round of U.S.A. F21. This was the only tour event he competed in in 2001.[citation needed]
2002
Monroe reached the quarter-finals of his first Futures tournament in singles play, U.S.A. F11, played in Peoria, Illinois in July.
2003
Nicholas won his first tour doubles match, partnering Yannis Vlachos to the semi-finals of Slovenia F1.[citation needed]
2004
After playing only four tour events in 2003, Monroe played, from June, a full schedule in 2004. In his first doubles tournament of the year, he reached his first tour final, partnering Jonathan Igbinovia. In August he reached his first singles semi-final, at Indonesia F2 in Makassar. In October, Monroe captured his first tour title, in doubles, partnering Márcio Torres, at Venezuela F3. He won a second two weeks later, Mexico F17, playing aside Jeremy Wurtzman. Later in November Monroe played in his first challenger tournament, the Puebla Challenger in Puebla, Mexico, losing in the first round 2 and 1 to Santiago González. And in doubles he and Wurtzman reached the semis. Three weeks later in Guadalajara however he won two challenger event matches to reach the quarters.
2005
His first full year as a professional, Nicholas played ITF Circuit and USTA Pro Circuit events. He reached his first final and won his first singles title at the ITF Circuit event in South Africa when he defeated Stephen Mitchell. Highly successful in doubles, Nick won four titles in 2005 – with Jeremy Wurtzman at the USTA Pro Circuit event in Orange Park, Florida; with Izak van der Merwe at ITF Circuit events in Botswana and Zimbabwe; and with Sam Warburg at the ITF Circuit event in Israel.[citation needed]
Monroe competed in 29 events in 2005, all but one of which were Futures.[citation needed] He lost in the first round of his only main draw challenger event singles match, to Zack Fleishman 3 and 2 at the Cuenca Challenger. Monroe however won his first singles title, South Africa F1 in late October, defeating Stephen Mitchell in the final.
2006
Nicholas started the year by winning the ITF Circuit title in Costa Rica. A month later he won another ITF title, this time in Nigeria. He reached the semifinals of a USTA Pro Circuit event in Little Rock before reaching back-to-back finals in India – he lost to Karan Rastogi in Delhi and defeated Sunil Kumar Sipaeya in Dehradun. He reached another ITF Circuit final in the fall in Japan where he lost to Satoshi Iwabuchi. At the beginning of the year, Nick won consecutive doubles titles on the ITF Circuit with partner Sam Warburg in Mexico and Costa Rica.[citation needed]
2007
Nicholas began the year by attempting to qualify for the Australian Open. He reached consecutive ITF Futures events in Japan, where he lost to Gouichi Motomura both times. He won two titles at ITF Futures events in Mexico and won a USTA Pro Circuit event in Rochester, New York where he defeated Robert Yim in the final. The fall of 2007 saw Nick reach the semifinals of USTAPro Circuit events in Manchester, Texas, where he lost to eventual champion Michael McClune, and Waikoloa, Hawaii where he lost to Lester Cook. He partnered with Izak van der Merwe to win the USTA Pro Circuit doubles title in Brownsville, Texas.[citation needed]
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Categories:- 1982 births
- Living people
- African American tennis players
- American male tennis players
- North Carolina Tar Heels tennis players
- People from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Tennis people from North Carolina
- Tennis people from Oklahoma
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