Mark Keil

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**Mark Keil**

Country	United States
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Date of birth	3 June 1967
Place of birth	Mountain View, California, USA
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	81 kg (180 lb)
Turned pro	1988
Retired	2003
Plays	Right
Career prize money	$749,587
Singles
Career record:	4 - 8
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	167 (22 July 1991)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2R (1993)
French Open	-
Wimbledon	1R (1991, 1993)
US Open	-
Doubles
Career record:	157 - 205
Career titles:	5
Highest ranking:	32 (2 October 1995)
Infobox last updated on: 15 April 2007.

Mark Keil (born June 3, 1967, in Mountain View, California) is a former professional tennis player from the United States who won 5 ATP doubles tournaments and was runner up at 8 more.

1 Early life and college
2 Professional career
3 Family
4 Playing History
5 Coaching History
6 ATP Tour titles (5)
- 6.1 Doubles (5)
- 6.2 Doubles Finalist (8)
7 External links

[edit] Early life and college

Prior to college, Keil was the 1985 New Mexico State Singles Champion. He won a gold medal in doubles at the U.S. Olympic Festival and played in the USTA Boys' 16s & 18s National Championships in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Keil turned pro following his junior year at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. He played singles and doubles while at USF.

[edit] Professional career

One of Keil's greatest moments came in a 6–2, 7–6(2) defeat of Pete Sampras, then ranked 8th in the world at the Queen's Club Championships in 1991. Keil went on to play in the main draw at Wimbledon and reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 167 later that year.

Keil later carved a career for himself in the doubles tour, reaching a career-high ranking of No. 32 in 1995. He has doubles wins over Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker, Andre Agassi, Gustavo Kuerten and Mark Philippoussis. He won five ATP Tour doubles titles in his career.

He was also the focus of a film documenting life behind the scenes for a struggling tour professional. "The Journeymen" follows Keil and his doubles partner Geoff Grant as they struggle to make a living on the doubles tour.

Keil has served as a touring coach for former college standouts Anne Mall (UCLA) and Jeff Salzenstein (Stanford). He has also been a national junior coach for the Hong Kong Tennis Association.

[edit] Family

His father, Klaus Keil is an award winning professor at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Asteroid 5054 Keil, and the mineral keilite are named after Klaus.

He also has a tennis playing sister, Kathrin Keil

[edit] Playing History

1985: State AAAA New Mexico Singles Champion.
1985-1989: Played collegiately for the University of South Florida.
1988-2001: ATP/ITF/Grand Slam Touring tennis player. Won five ATP Tour Doubles Titles, one Challenger and Futures Title. Played for Iphitos Munchen, Weiden, Ravensburg, and Zuffenhausen, in Germany.
Team member of Swedish Indoor Tennis Champions, SALK Tenishalen.

[edit] Coaching History

2001-2002: Assistant tennis teaching professional La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California.
2002-2003; Touring traveling coach for ITF/ATP/Grand Slam player Jeff Salzenstein.
2003-2004: Traveling tour coach for ITF/WTA Irish Fed Cup member Anne Mall.
2004-2005: National Coach, Hong Kong Tennis Association.
2005-2006: Volunteer Men's Assistant Tennis Coach UCLA.

[edit] ATP Tour titles (5)

[edit] Doubles (5)

Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
2 March 1992	Scottsdale, U.S.	Hard	Dave Randall	Kent Kinnear & Sven Salumaa	4–6 6–1 6–2
1 March 1993	Scottsdale, USA	Hard	Dave Randall	Luke Jensen & Sandon Stolle	7–5, 6–4
4 April 1993	Osaka, Japan	Hard	Christo Van Rensburg	Glenn Michibata & David Pate	7–6 6–3
12 March 1995	Copenhagen, Denmark	Carpet	Peter Nyborg	Guillaume Raoux & Greg Rusedski	6–7 6–4 7–6
12 March 1995	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Jeff Tarango	Cyril Suk & Daniel Vacek	6–4 7–6

[edit] Doubles Finalist (8)

Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
3 March 1992	Atlanta, U.S.	Clay	Dave Randall	Steve DeVries & David Macpherson	3–6 3–6
8 November 1992	Buzios, Brazil	Hard	Tom Mercer	Maurice Ruah & Mario Tabares	6–7 7–6 4–6
1 October 1995	Basel, Switzerland	Hard	Peter Nyborg	Cyril Suk & Daniel Vacek	6–3 3–6 3–6
2 February 1997	Zagreb, Croatia	Carpet	Brent Haygarth	Saša Hiršzon & Goran Ivanišević	4–6 3–6
24 August 1997	Long Island, U.S.	Hard	T.J. Middleton	Marcos Ondruska & David Prinosil	4–6 4–6
8 February 1998	Marseilles, France	Hard	T.J. Middleton	Donald Johnson & Francisco Montana	4–6 6–3 3–6
2 May 1999	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Nicolás Lapentti	Martin Damm & Radek Štěpánek	0–6 2–6
19 September 1999	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Lorenzo Manta	Oleg Ogorodov & Marc Rosset	6–7⁴ 6–7¹