Tim Mayotte

Timothy ("Tim") Mayotte (b. August 3 1960, in Springfield, MA, U.S.) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.

The tall serve-and-volleyer learned his game playing on the public courts of Forest Park, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Mayotte 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 in Key Biscayne, Florida. Other career highlights included winning the Queen's Club championship in London in 1986, capturing the Paris Open 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.

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 US$2,663,672. His final career singles title was won in 1989 at Washington DC. Mayotte retired from the professional tour in 1992.

Mayotte's older brother Chris also played on the tour a few seasons. Their older brother John is a former club pro and tennis businessman.

Singles titles (12)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	18 February, 1985	Delray Beach, U.S.	Hard	Scott Davis	4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4
2.	16 June, 1986	London/Queen's Club, England	Grass	Jimmy Connors	6-4, 2-1, ret.
3.	9 February, 1987	Philadelphia, U.S.	Carpet	John McEnroe	3-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-1
4.	6 April, 1987	Chicago, U.S.	Carpet	David Pate	6-4, 6-2
5.	19 October, 1987	Toulouse, France	Hard (i)	Ricki Osterthun	6-2, 5-7, 6-4
6.	9 November, 1987	Paris, France	Carpet	Brad Gilbert	2-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-7, 6-3
7.	16 November, 1987	Frankfurt, Germany	Carpet	Andrés Gómez	7-6, 6-4
8.	29 February, 1988	Philadelphia, U.S.	Carpet	John Fitzgerald	4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3
9.	25 July, 1988	Schenectady, U.S.	Hard	Johan Kriek	5-7, 6-3, 6-2
10.	10 October, 1988	Brisbane, Australia	Hard (i)	Martin Davis	6-4, 6-4
11.	24 October, 1988	Frankfurt, Germany	Carpet	Leonardo Lavalle	4-6, 6-4, 6-3
12.	31 July, 1989	Washington D.C., U.S.	Hard	Brad Gilbert	3-6, 6-4, 7-5

Runner-ups (11)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	5 October, 1981	Maui, U.S.	Hard	Hank Pfister	6-4, 6-4
2.	22 March, 1982	Strasbourg WCT, France	Carpet	Ivan Lendl	6-0, 7-5, 6-1
3.	21 June, 1982	Bristol, England	Grass	John Alexander	6-3, 6-4
4.	16 July, 1984	Newport, U.S.	Grass	Vijay Amritraj	3-6, 6-4, 6-4
5.	15 April, 1985	Dallas, U.S.	Carpet	Ivan Lendl	7-6, 6-4, 6-1
6.	3 February, 1986	Philadelphia, U.S.	Carpet	Ivan Lendl	walkover
7.	26 September, 1988	Seoul Olympics, South Korea	Hard	Miloslav Mečíř	3-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2
8.	29 February, 1989	Philadelphia, U.S.	Carpet	Boris Becker	7-6, 6-1, 6-3
9.	12 February, 1990	Milan, Italy	Carpet	Ivan Lendl	6-3, 6-2
10.	19 February, 1990	Toronto Indoor, Canada	Carpet	Ivan Lendl	6-3, 6-0
11.	12 November, 1990	Moscow, Russia	Carpet	Andrei Cherkasov	6-2, 6-1

External links

• Official ATP Profile

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