Paul Wekesa

Paul Wekesa (born 2 July 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Kenya. He won 3 doubles titles, achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 100 and reached two tour-level quarterfinals at Auckland in 1989 and Seoul in 1995.

Prior to turning professional, he won the doubles tournament at the 1987 Division II NCAA Men's Tennis Championships while attending Chapman University. During his career, Wekesa won 3 ATP Tour doubles titles. He reached the quarterfinals in doubles at the 1992 Australian Open. Wekesa won a bronze medal at the 1987 All-Africa Games held in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the only Kenyan tennis player to reach Top 100 of ATP rankings. He also features for the Kenya Davis Cup team and was still active in 1998. He was the first player to be beaten by Tim Henman in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, at Wimbledon in 1995. After retirement from playing, he has served as a Kenyan national teams coach. He won the "Hall of Fame" category at the 2007 Kenyan Sports Personality of the Year awards.

His father Noah Wekesa is a Kenyan politician and minister.

Doubles wins (3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	16 October 1988	Tel Aviv, Israel	Hard	Roger Smith	Patrick Baur Alexander Mronz	6–3, 6–3
Winner	2.	16 April 1989	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Scott Davis	John Letts Bruce Man-Son-Hing	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	30 April 1989	Singapore	Hard	Paul Chamberlin	Rick Leach Jim Pugh	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	2.	5 August 1990	Los Angeles, United States	Hard	Peter Lundgren	Scott Davis David Pate	6–3, 1–6, 3–6
Winner	3.	10 November 1991	Birmingham, U.K.	Carpet (i)	Jacco Eltingh	Ronnie Båthman Rikard Bergh	7–5, 7–5
Runner-up	3.	28 August 1994	Umag, Croatia	Clay	Karol Kučera	Diego Pérez Francisco Roig	2–6, 4–6