Carsten Ball

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**Carsten Ball**

Country	Australia
Residence	Newport Beach, California, USA
Date of birth	June 20, 1985 (1985-06-20) (age 22)
Place of birth	Newport Beach, California, USA
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	82 kg (180 lb)
Turned pro	2001
Plays	Left-handed; double-handed backhand
Career prize money	US$$71,341
Singles
Career record:	0–0 (does not include ITF matches)
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	No. 333 (April 21, 2008)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	NA
French Open	NA
Wimbledon	NA
US Open	NA
Doubles
Career record:	4–3
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	No. 133 (April 21, 2008)
Infobox last updated on: May 3, 2008.

Carsten Ball (born June 20, 1987) is a professional Australian tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is 333rd, which he reached on April 21, 2008. His career high in doubles was at 133 set at April 21, 2008.

[edit] Tennis Career

Carsten Ball was born in Newport Beach, California, USA, his father Syd Ball was also a tennis player. Unlike most tennis players Ball began playing ITF Future Tournaments at the age of 13, 2 years before he began playing Junior tennis events. As a junior tennis player he reached a career high of number 9 in the world.

Unlike Taylor Dent who was also born in USA to a former Australian tennis player (Phil Dent), Carsten decided to keep his allegance with Australia.

To date Ball has two future titles to his credit, his most successful tournament was at the Tunica Resorts Challenger in May 2008 where, as a qualifier, he reached the final.

[edit] Singles titles

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (0)
Challengers (0)
Futures (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	July 23, 2007	Godfrey, Illinois, USA	Hard	Sheeva Parbhu	7-6(5), 7-5(1)
1.	September 11, 2007	Claremont, California, USA	Hard	Robert Yim	6-2 6-3