Alun Jones (tennis)


Alun Jones is a retired Australian professional tennis player. He currently resides in Canberra, Australia with wife Jill.
Jones started playing tennis at age 7. His parents are David, a civil engineer, and Susan. Jones also likes playing rugby, soccer, basketball and cricket. Alun played the role of Tom Cavendish in the 2004 movie Wimbledon.

Summer of 2007

During the summer of 2007, Jones obtained a 20–4 record at several Challenger tournaments and one Futures tournament. This took his world ranking from 198 to a career high of 123. He was granted a wildcard to the 2007 US Open under a reciprocal agreement with Australian Open. He was eliminated in the first round, losing in four sets to second seed Rafael Nadal.

Singles titles

No.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponent in the finalScore
1.19 November 2002BerriGrass Paul Baccanello6–2, 6–2
2.2 May 2005PhuketHard Patrick Schmolzer6–1, 6–1
3.16 May 2005PhuketHard Phillip King6–3, 6–1
4.30 May 2005MaspalomasClay Ignasi Villacampa6–1, 6–2
5.12 September 2006Hope IslandHard Robert Smeets6–3, 7–6
6.24 October 2006MilduraGrass Samuel Groth3–6, 7–5, 6–4
7.31 October 2006BerriGrass Shannon Nettle6–4, 6–3
8.20 March 2007LynehamClay Vasilis Mazarakis3–6, 6–1, 6–3
9.10 July 2007FelixstoweGrass Nicolas Tourte6–3, 6–4
10.23 July 2007NottinghamGrass Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi6–3, 4–6, 6–4
11.9 December 2007BurnieHard Rameez Junaid6–0, 6–1