ALEX O'BRIEN - INDUCTEE #147
hall of fame fast fact:
Alex O'Brien holds 13 career titles in doubles play. He was ranked No. 1 in doubles on May 8, 2000.
Alex O'Brien
Alex O’Brien started playing tennis at age 6; he was the best tennis player to come out of Amarillo.
O’Brien’s amateur career featured two state high school championships at Tascosa—doubles (1987) and singles (1988)—and a rare triple crown at Stanford University.
In 1992, he captured the NCAA singles, doubles, and team title for Stanford. He was a four-time All-American and played on three NCAA Championship teams.
He joined the pro tour in 1992 and worked his way up to the No. 1 ranked doubles player in the world by 2000. In the 1999 U.S. Open, O’Brien and Canadian Sebastian Lareau defeated Mahesh Bhupathi and Leadner Paes of India 7-6, 6-4. His professional resume shows four Grand Slam doubles finals, 13 Association of Tennis Professionals doubles championships, one ATP singles crown and Davis Cup, and Olympic appearances for the United States.
O’Brien’s lone singles title came in 1996 when he won the Pen Pilot tournament in New Haven, Connecticut.
O’Brien left the ATP tour in 2001 and returned to Amarillo.
