Alex O'Brien

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Alex O'Brien (born March 7, 1970 in Amarillo, Texas) is a professional tennis player from the United States, who competed on the ATP Tour. He was the No. 1 doubles player in the world (gaining that ranking on May 8, 2000) and was ranked as high as 30 in the world in singles (gaining that ranking on June 21, 1997).

He won his only singles title at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1996. He won 13 doubles titles, the biggest coming at the U.S. Open in 1999, the Cincinnati Masters in 1994 (his first doubles title), the Indian Wells Masters in 2000, and the Paris Masters in 1999.

He also reached 20 doubles finals, including the Australian Open in 1996 & 1997, the U.S. Open in 1995, the Miami Masters in 1998, and the Canada Masters and the Rome Masters in 1997.

He also played on the United States Davis Cup team, and was a four-time All-American at Stanford University where he won NCAA singles, doubles and team titles in 1992. He earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies at Stanford in 1992.

On leaving his tennis career O'Brien founded Littlefield Ranch, an online business which produces, markets, and distributes prime steaks. The O’Brien family has been in the beef business for 60 years basing their production out of the historic LIT Ranch.

[edit] Doubles Titles (13)

Legend
Grand Slam (1)
Tennis Masters Cup (1)
ATP Masters Series (4)
ATP Tour (7)

Titles by Surface
Hard (10)
Clay (0)
Grass (1)
Carpet (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	15 August 1994	Cincinnati, U.S.	Hard	Sandon Stolle	Wayne Ferreira Mark Kratzmann	6–7, 6–3, 6–2
2.	28 October 1996	Stuttgart Indoor, Germany	Hard (i)	Sébastien Lareau	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	3–6, 6–4, 6–3
3.	3 March 1997	Philadelphia, U.S.	Hard (i)	Sébastien Lareau	Ellis Ferreira Patrick Galbraith	6–3, 6–3
4.	28 July 1997	Los Angeles, U.S.	Hard	Sébastien Lareau	Mahesh Bhupathi Rick Leach	7–6, 6–4
5.	13 April 1998	Hong Kong	Hard	Byron Black	Neville Godwin Tuomas Ketola	7–5, 6–1
6.	2 November 1998	Stuttgart Indoor, Germany	Hard (i)	Sébastien Lareau	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6–3, 3–6, 7–5
7.	11 January 1999	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Jared Palmer	Piet Norval Kevin Ullyett	6–3, 6–4
8.	14 June 1999	London/Queen's Club, England	Grass	Sébastien Lareau	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6–3, 7–6
9.	13 September 1999	U.S. Open, New York	Hard	Sébastien Lareau	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	7–6(7), 6–4
10.	8 November 1999	Paris, France	Carpet	Sébastien Lareau	Paul Haarhuis Jared Palmer	7–6, 7–5
11.	15 November 1999	Doubles Championships, Hartford	Carpet	Sébastien Lareau	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6–3, 6–2, 6–2
12.	20 March 2000	Indian Wells, U.S.	Hard	Jared Palmer	Paul Haarhuis Sandon Stolle	6–4, 7–6(5)
13.	21 August 2000	Washington D.C., U.S.	Hard	Jared Palmer	Andre Agassi Sargis Sargsian	7–5, 6–1

[edit] Runner-ups (20)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	10 January 1994	Oahu, U.S.	Hard	Jonathan Stark	Tom Nijssen Cyril Suk	6–4, 6–4
2.	28 February 1994	Scottsdale, U.S.	Hard	Sandon Stolle	Jan Apell Ken Flach	6–0, 6–4
3.	13 February 1995	San Jose, U.S.	Hard (i)	Sandon Stolle	Jim Grabb Patrick McEnroe	3–6, 7–5, 6–0
4.	15 May 1995	Pinehurst, U.S.	Clay	Sandon Stolle	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6–2, 6–4
5.	11 September 1995	U.S. Open, New York	Hard	Sandon Stolle	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6–3, 6–3
6.	29 January 1996	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	Sébastien Lareau	Stefan Edberg Petr Korda	7–5, 7–5, 4–6, 6–1
7.	17 June 1996	London/Queen's Club, England	Grass	Sébastien Lareau	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6–3, 7–6
8.	17 November 1996	Doubles Championships, Hartford	Carpet	Sébastien Lareau	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6–4, 5–7, 6–2, 7–6
9.	27 January 1997	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	Sébastien Lareau	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	4–6, 7–5, 7–5, 6–3
10.	28 April 1997	Orlando, U.S.	Clay	Jeff Salzenstein	Mark Merklein Vince Spadea	6–4, 4–6, 6–4
11.	19 May 1997	Rome, Italy	Clay	Byron Black	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6–3, 4–6, 7–5
12.	4 August 1997	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Sébastien Lareau	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	7–6, 6–3
13.	18 August 1997	New Haven, U.S.	Hard	Sébastien Lareau	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6–4, 6–7, 6–2
14.	6 October 1997	Beijing, China	Hard (i)	Jim Courier	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	7–5, 7–6
15.	30 March 1998	Miami, U.S.	Hard	Jonathan Stark	Ellis Ferreira Rick Leach	6–2, 6–4
16.	4 May 1998	Atlanta, U.S.	Clay	Richey Reneberg	Ellis Ferreira Brent Haygarth	6–3, 0–6, 6–2
17.	24 August 1998	New Haven, U.S.	Hard	Sébastien Lareau	Wayne Arthurs Peter Tramacchi	7–6, 1–6, 6–3
18.	22 February 1999	Memphis, U.S.	Hard (i)	Sebastiean Lareau	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6–3, 6–4
19.	10 January 2000	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Jared Palmer	Mark Knowles Max Mirnyi	6–3, 6–4
20.	26 February 2001	Memphis, U.S.	Hard (i)	Jonathan Stark	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–3, 7–6