Tim Mayotte

Tim Mayotte

Born: August 3, 1960
Age: 64
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Biography

Timothy "Gentleman Tim" Mayotte (born August 3, 1960) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.

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Professional career

A tall serve-and-volleyer, Mayotte learned to play the game on the public courts of Forest Park in his hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts. He played tennis for Stanford University in the early-1980s and won the NCAA singles title in 1981.

Mayotte won his first top-level professional singles title in 1985 at the inaugural Lipton International Players Championships (now known as the Miami Masters). Other career highlights included winning the Queen's Club Championships in London in 1986, capturing the Paris Indoor title in 1987, and winning the men's singles Silver Medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.

His best performances in Grand Slam tournaments came in reaching the semi-finals at Wimbledon in 1982 and the Australian Open in 1983. He also reached the quarter-finals of the US Open in 1989.

During his career, Mayotte won 12 singles titles and 1 doubles title. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 7. His career prize-money earnings totalled $2,663,672. His final career singles title was won in 1989 at Washington DC. Mayotte retired from the professional tour in 1992.

Mayotte was hired by the United States Tennis Association (USTA) to serve as a national coach in July 2009.

Mayotte's older brother Chris also played on the international tennis tour a few seasons.

Their older brother John was the number one junior player in New England and latter one of the top players in the New England Tennis Stars (NETS), a tour started by Ted Hoehn in the late 70s and 80s. John started the Mayotte Family string of successes at the very same forest Park mentioned above.

He then went to work as a tennis agent working for Donald Dell's ProServ. There he managed top ten and All American players on the ATP and WTA Tours. His clients included Amanda Coetzer and Greg Rusedski, who became semi-finalist and finalists at the French Open and U.S. Open consecutively.

Coach with USTA Player Development Program

After working as a coach for USTA Player Development under General Manager Patrick McEnroe, Mayotte spoke publicly about his experiences:

“One big issue and an expression of the pervading arrogance is that the bosses there at the USTA PD have no willingness or ability to deeply discuss ideas and methods. They want to produce great, strong independent players who can be flexible and adjust and yet they (the bosses) do not display any of these qualities. We have cultural dissonance of the highest and most destructive order going on there. Jose, and to a tragic level, Patrick feel somehow by virtue of their celebrity that their “magic” will rub off on people they control. What they are too lost to see is the word “development” in PD. As you know so well, building healthy individuals means walking thru the trenches with them and helping them analyze the moral, mental, and emotional choices they (and the parents) have to make and develop a healthy strong person in the process. Hard to do when you are dictating from a broadcast booth and a board room.”

Career finals

Singles 23 (12 titles, 11 runners-up)

Legend
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Championship Series (0)
Grand Prix (12)
Titles by Surface
Hard (5)
Grass (1)
Clay (0)
Carpet (6)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. October 5, 1981 Maui, U.S. Hard Hank Pfister 4-6, 4-6
Runner-up 2. March 22, 1982 Strasbourg WCT, France Carpet Ivan Lendl 0-6, 5-7, 1-6
Runner-up 3. June 21, 1982 Bristol, England Grass John Alexander 3-6, 4-6
Runner-up 4. July 16, 1984 Newport, U.S. Grass Vijay Amritraj 6-3, 4-6, 4-6
Winner 1. February 18, 1985 Delray Beach, U.S. Hard Scott Davis 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4
Runner-up 5. April 15, 1985 Dallas, U.S. - WCT Finals Carpet Ivan Lendl 6-7(4-7), 4-6, 1-6
Runner-up 6. February 3, 1986 Philadelphia, U.S. Carpet Ivan Lendl w/o
Winner 2. June 16, 1986 London/Queen's Club, England Grass Jimmy Connors 6-4, 2-1, ret.
Winner 3. February 9, 1987 Philadelphia, U.S. Carpet John McEnroe 3-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-1
Winner 4. April 6, 1987 Chicago, U.S. Carpet David Pate 6-4, 6-2
Winner 5. October 19, 1987 Toulouse, France Hard (i) Ricki Osterthun 6-2, 5-7, 6-4
Winner 6. November 9, 1987 Paris Indoor, France Carpet Brad Gilbert 2-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-7(5-7), 6-3
Winner 7. November 16, 1987 Frankfurt, Germany Carpet Andrés Gómez 7-6(8-6), 6-4
Winner 8. February 29, 1988 Philadelphia, U.S. Carpet John Fitzgerald 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3
Winner 9. July 25, 1988 Schenectady, U.S. Hard Johan Kriek 5-7, 6-3, 6-2
Runner-up 7. September 26, 1988 Seoul Olympics, South Korea Hard Miloslav Mečíř 6-3, 2-6, 4-6, 2-6
Winner 10. October 10, 1988 Brisbane, Australia Hard (i) Marty Davis 6-4, 6-4
Winner 11. October 24, 1988 Frankfurt, Germany Carpet Leonardo Lavalle 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
Runner-up 8. February 29, 1989 Philadelphia, U.S. Carpet Boris Becker 6-7(4-7), 1-6, 3-6
Winner 12. July 31, 1989 Washington D.C., U.S. Hard Brad Gilbert 3-6, 6-4, 7-5
Runner-up 9. February 12, 1990 Milan, Italy Carpet Ivan Lendl 3-6, 2-6
Runner-up 10. February 19, 1990 Toronto Indoor, Canada Carpet Ivan Lendl 3-6, 0-6
Runner-up 11. November 12, 1990 Moscow, Russia Carpet Andrei Cherkasov 2-6, 1-6

Singles performance timeline

Tournament 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 Career SR
Grand Slams
Australian Open A A 1R QF 3R SF 2R 4R NH A A A 1R A A 0 / 6
French Open A A A A 1R 1R 1R A A A 2R 2R A A A 0 / 5
Wimbledon A A A QF SF QF 4R 4R QF 3R QF QF 1R 4R A 0 / 11
U.S. Open A 1R 1R 3R 2R 1R 4R 4R 1R 2R 3R QF 1R 1R A 0 / 13
Grand Slam SR 0 / 0 0 / 1 0 / 2 0 / 3 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 3 0 / 2 0 / 2 0 / 3 0 / 3 0 / 3 0 / 2 0 / 0 0 / 35
Year End Ranking 436 420 171 ? 30 16 44 12 15 9 10 13 37 115 1097 N/A

A = did not attend tournament
NH = tournament not held

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