Tommy Ho

 ( 1973 Births ) 

Thomas Ho (born June 17, 1973, in Winter Haven, Florida) is an American former professional tennis player.

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Tennis career

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Juniors Ho first came to the tennis world's attention as an exceptionally successful junior player. He won several junior tennis events in the 1980s, and set a number of 'youngest-ever' records.

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Pro tour In August 1988, Ho became the youngest male player in the open era to play in the main draw of the US Open singles at the age of 15 years and 2 months. He lost the first round match to Johan Kriek 6–4, 7–6, 7–6. That same month, Ho became the second youngest male player to win a main draw match at a top-level tour event when he beat Matt Anger in the first round at Rye Brook 6–4, 3–6, 6–4, just after Argentina's Franco Davín.

Ho's early successes drew many comparisons with Michael Chang, another Asian American tennis player who achieved great success as a junior. However Ho did not manage to make the same kind of impact on the professional circuit as Chang (who went on to win the French Open and reach the World No. 2 singles ranking). Ho enjoyed some success in satellite tournaments, but did not win any top-level singles events on the tour. He did, however, win four tour doubles titles (Beijing in 1994, and Beijing, Hong Kong and Indian Wells in 1995).

Ho's professional career was hampered by injuries. In 1995, Ho and Brett Steven became the fastest-ever losers of a match at Wimbledon. In the very first point of their men's doubles match, Steven served and Ho tried to intercept the return at the net, only to injure his back. The pair thus had had to forfeit the match after just one rally, which had lasted all of five seconds. The back injury was to recur again in future years, and eventually led to Ho's retirement from the tour in 1997.

During his professional career, Ho reached career-high rankings of World No. 85 in singles and World No. 13 in doubles. His career prize-money totalled $793,819.

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Post-retirement Since retiring from the tour, Ho has completed a degree at Rice University in Houston and worked as a tennis journalist.

In 2011, Ho was inducted into the USTA Florida Hall of Fame.

After working as a partner at global recruiting firm Heidrick & Struggles, he is currently the Chief Talent Officer at Quantum Energy Partners.

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ATP career finals

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Doubles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runner-ups)

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Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)

ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)

ATP Masters Series (1–0)

ATP Championship Series (0–1)

ATP World Series (3–2)

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Hard (2–2)

Clay (0–0)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (2–1)

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Outdoors (2–1)

Indoors (2–2)

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Win	1–0		Beijing, China	World Series	Carpet	Kent Kinnear	David Adams Andrei Olhovskiy	7–6, 6–3
Loss	1–1		Memphis, United States	Championship Series	Hard	Brett Steven	Jared Palmer Richey Reneberg	6–4, 6–7, 1–6
Win	2–1		Indian Wells, United States	Masters Series	Hard	Brett Steven	Gary Muller Pieter Norval	6–4, 7–6
Win	3–1		Hong Kong, Hong Kong	World Series	Hard	Mark Philippoussis	John Fitzgerald Anders Järryd	6–1, 6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–3)
Win	4–1		Beijing, China	World Series	Carpet	Sébastien Lareau	Dick Norman Fernon Wibier	7–6, 7–6
Loss	4–2		Kremlin Cup, Russia	World Series	Carpet	Brett Steven	Byron Black Jared Palmer	4–6, 6–3, 3–6
Loss	4–3		Adelaide, Australia	World Series	Hard	Jonas Björkman	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	5–7, 6–7

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ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals

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Singles: 8 (4–4)

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ATP Challenger (4–4)

ITF Futures (0–0)

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Hard (4–4)

Clay (0–0)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–0)

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Win	1–0		Ponte Vedra, United States	Challenger	Hard	Chris Pridham	7–6, 6–4
Loss	1–1		Bloomfield Hills, United States	Challenger	Hard	Chris Pridham	3–6, 4–6
Win	2–1		Hong Kong	Challenger	Hard	Greg Rusedski	4–6, 6–4, 7–6
Loss	2–2		Wellington, New Zealand	Challenger	Hard	Byron Black	4–6, 6–4, 1–6
Loss	2–3		Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Challenger	Hard	Alexander Mronz	1–6, 0–6
Win	3–3		Singapore, Singapore	Challenger	Hard	Chris Wilkinson	6–3, 6–4
Win	4–3		Indian Wells, United States	Challenger	Hard	Oliver Gross	6–7, 7–6, 6–2
Loss	4–4		Flushing Meadows, United States	Challenger	Hard	Gianluca Pozzi	1–6, 4–6

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Doubles: 6 (4–2)

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ATP Challenger (4–2)

ITF Futures (0–0)

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Hard (2–2)

Clay (2–0)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–0)

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Loss	0–1		Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Challenger	Hard	Patrick Rafter	Jamie Morgan Sandon Stolle	4–6, 6–7
Win	1–1		Taipei, Taiwan	Challenger	Hard	Patrick Rafter	Kent Kinnear Kenny Thorne	6–4, 7–6
Win	2–1		Hong Kong, Hong Kong	Challenger	Hard	Shuzo Matsuoka	Dirk Dier Alexander Mronz	2–3 ret.
Win	3–1		Weiden, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Nuno Marques	Eyal Ran Gabriel Silberstein	6–3, 6–1
Win	4–1		Košice, Slovakia	Challenger	Clay	Mikael Tillström	Emanuel Couto Bernardo Mota	7–6, 6–1
Loss	4–2		Wellington, New Zealand	Challenger	Hard	Kenny Thorne	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6–1, 4–6, 6–7

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Performance timelines

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Singles

Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	Q1	A	1R	1R	2R	Q2	A	A !0 / 2 !1–2 !
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	1R	A	A	A !0 / 1 !0–1 !
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	2R	A	A	Q1 !0 / 2 !1–2 !
US Open	1R	A	2R	A	3R	1R	1R	A	A	1R	A !0 / 6 !3–6 !
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	2R	A	A	A !0 / 1 !1–1 !
Miami Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	3R	A	A	A !0 / 1 !2–1 !
Canada Masters	A	1R	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A !0 / 2 !0–2 !
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	Q1	Q1	Q3	1R	A	A	A !0 / 1 !0–1 !
Paris Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q3	A	A	A !0 / 0 !0–0 !

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Doubles

Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	2R	3R	A !0 / 2 !3–2 !
French Open	A	A	A	A	SF	A	A !0 / 1 !4–1 !
Wimbledon	A	A	Q3	A	2R	A	A !0 / 1 !1–1 !
US Open	2R	2R	1R	Q1	A	A	Q1 !0 / 3 !2–3 !
Year-end Championships
ATP Finals	Did not qualify				RR	DNQ !0 / 1 !1–2 !
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	W	A	1R !1 / 2 !5–1 !
Miami Masters	A	A	A	A	3R	A	1R !0 / 2 !1–2 !
Canada Masters	A	A	Q2	A	A	A	A !0 / 0 !0–0 !
Cincinnati	A	2R	A	A	2R	A	A !0 / 2 !2–2 !
Paris Masters	A	A	A	A	2R	A	A !0 / 1 !2–1 !

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