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Brett Hansen-Dent
American tennis player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brett Hansen-Dent (born July 2, 1972) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.[1]
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Personal life
Hansen-Dent is the son of American tennis player Betty Ann Grubb Stuart, half-brother of former tennis professional Taylor Dent and a step-son of Australian Davis Cup player Phil Dent.[2] When he was 10, the family moved to Australia, where they lived for four years, before returning to California. He went to school at Newport Harbor High.[3]
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Hansen-Dent was a mixed doubles gold medalist at the 1991 Summer Universiade in Sheffield, partnering Susan Gilchrist.[4] He was also a member of the American squad which competed at the Pan American Games that year, in Havana, Cuba.[4]
In 1991 and 1992, Hansen-Dent played collegiate tennis for the University of California, Irvine, then spent a year away touring.
While at the University of Southern California in 1994, Hansen-Dent was a doubles All-American and member of the NCAA championship winning team. In 1995 he was the Division I singles runner-up (to Sargis Sargsian) and earned All-American honours again, for both singles and doubles.[4]
Hansen-Dent was given a wildcard at the 1995 US Open and played Russian Alexander Volkov in a first round match, which he lost in straight sets.[4] He did however make the second round in the men's doubles, with Jonathan Leach.[4] They defeated the Dutch pairing of Richard Krajicek and Jan Siemerink.[4] His two other Grand Slam appearances were both in the men's doubles, at the 1996 US Open (with T.J. Middleton) and 1997 Australian Open (with Brian MacPhie.[4] He was unable to get past the opening round in either tournament.[4]
During his professional career, he played mainly as a doubles specialist and had his best year on the doubles tour in 1996. He won three Challenger titles that year, made the quarter-finals at the Austrian Open, semi-finals of the Grolsch Open and with Ivan Baron was a runner-up at the America's Red Clay Court Championships in Coral Springs.[4]
Hansen-Dent was unable to repeat these efforts in 1997 due to a knee injury, which required surgery.[5]
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ATP career finals
Doubles: 1 (0–1)
Challenger titles
Doubles: (3)
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