Wally Masur

Wally Masur (/məˈsʊər/; born 13 May 1963) is a tennis coach, television commentator, and former professional tennis player from Sydney, Australia. He reached the semi-finals of the 1987 Australian Open and the 1993 US Open, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 15 in October 1993.

Masur began playing tennis at the age of eight.

Juniors

In 1980, he reached the final of the Australian Open boys' singles tournament and won the boys' doubles title.

Pro tour

Masur turned professional in 1982. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

In 1983, Masur won his first top-level singles title at Hong Kong, and his first tour doubles title at Taipei. He also reached quarter-finals of that year's Australian Open, before being knocked out by John McEnroe.

In 1987, Masur won his second career singles title at Adelaide and reached the Australian Open semi-finals, where he lost to eventual champion Stefan Edberg.

Masur won his third singles title in 1988 at Newport, Rhode Island.

In 1990, Masur helped Australia reach the final of the Davis Cup, compiling a 6–0 record in singles rubbers in the first round, quarter-finals and semi-finals. However he was left out of the team that played the United States in the final by captain Neale Fraser. The decision to leave Masur out of the final was fairly controversial at the time given the very significant role that he had played in getting Australia there, but was principally because the final was to be played on clay courts, which was not Masur's best surface. The US beat Australia 3–2 in the final.

1993 was possibly the best year of Masur's career. He reached the semi-finals of that year's US Open, where he lost to Cédric Pioline. He also reached his career-high rankings in both singles (World No. 15) and doubles (World No. 8) that year. He captured doubles titles in Milan and Stuttgart that year, which proved to be the final top-level titles of his career.

Masur retired from the professional tour in 1995, having won 3 singles titles and 16 doubles titles. His career prize-money totalled $3,134,718.

Post playing

In January 2015, Masur was appointed captain of Australia's Davis Cup team, succeeding Pat Rafter. He will in turn be succeeded by Lleyton Hewitt in 2016.

Singles: 11 (3 titles – 8 runners-up)

Outcome	Nr.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	6 October 1983	Hong Kong	Hardcourt	Sammy Giammalva	6–1, 6–1
Winner	2.	January 1987	Adelaide	Grass	Bill Scanlon	6–4, 7–6
Winner	3.	10 July 1988	Newport	Grass	Brad Drewett	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	1.	5 November 1984	Taipei	Carpet (i)	Brad Gilbert	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	13 January 1985	Auckland	Hardcourt	Chris Lewis	7–5, 6–0, 2–6, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	29 March 1987	Nancy	Carpet (i)	Pat Cash	2–6, 3–6
Runner-up	4.	3 January 1988	Adelaide	Hardcourt	Mark Woodforde	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	5.	4 March 1990	Memphis	Hardcourt (i)	Michael Stich	7–6, 4–6, 6–7
Runner-up	6.	7 April 1991	Hong Kong	Hardcourt	Richard Krajicek	2–6, 6–3, 3–6
Runner-up	7.	13 June 1993	Rosmalen	Grass	Arnaud Boetsch	6–3, 3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	8.	20 June 1993	Manchester	Grass	Jason Stoltenberg	1–6, 3–6

Doubles: 24 (16 titles – 8 runners-up)

Outcome	Nr.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	13 November 1983	Taipei	Carpet (i)	Kim Warwick	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	7–6, 6–4
Winner	2.	21 October 1984	Melbourne Indoor	Carpet (i)	Broderick Dyke	Peter Johnston John McCurdy	6–3, 6–2
Winner	3.	23 December 1984	Adelaide	Grass	Broderick Dyke	Peter Doohan Brian Levine	4–6, 7–5, 6–1
Winner	4.	30 December 1984	Melbourne Outdoor	Grass	Broderick Dyke	Mike Bauer Scott McCain	6–7, 6–3, 7–6
Winner	5.	12 January 1986	Auckland	Hardcourt	Broderick Dyke	Karl Richter Rick Rudeen	6–3, 6–4
Winner	6.	27 July 1986	Livingston	Hardcourt	Bob Green	Sammy Giammalva Greg Holmes	5–7, 6–4, 6–4
Winner	7.	27 November 1988	Brussels Indoor	Carpet (i)	Tom Nijssen	John Fitzgerald Tomáš Šmíd	7–5, 7–6
Winner	8.	15 January 1989	Sydney	Hardcourt	Darren Cahill	Pieter Aldrich Danie Visser	6–4 6–3
Winner	9.	6 August 1989	Stratton Mountain	Hardcourt	Mark Kratzmann	Pieter Aldrich Danie Visser	6–3, 4–6, 7–6
Winner	10.	15 April 1990	Tokyo	Hardcourt	Mark Kratzmann	Kent Kinnear Brad Pearce	6–4, 6–3
Winner	11.	29 April 1990	Hong Kong	Hardcourt	Pat Cash	Kevin Curren Joey Rive	6–3, 6–3
Winner	12.	11 February 1991	San Francisco	Hardcourt (i)	Jason Stoltenberg	Ronnie Båthman Rikard Bergh	4–6, 7–6, 6–4
Winner	13.	21 July 1991	Stuttgart	Clay	Emilio Sánchez	Omar Camporese Goran Ivanišević	2–6, 6–3, 6–4
Winner	14.	18 August 1991	New Haven	Hardcourt	Petr Korda	Jeff Brown Scott Melville	7–5, 6–3
Winner	15.	14 February 1993	Milan	Carpet (i)	Mark Kratzmann	Tom Nijssen Cyril Suk	4–6, 6–3, 6–4
Winner	16.	21 February 1993	Stuttgart Indoor	Hardcourt (i)	Mark Kratzmann	Steve DeVries David Macpherson	6–3, 7–6
Runner-up	1.	29 April 1984	Aix-En-Provence	Hardcourt	Chris Lewis	Pat Cash Paul McNamee	4–6, 6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	2.	7 October 1984	Brisbane	Carpet (i)	Broderick Dyke	Francisco González Matt Mitchell	6–7, 6–2, 7–5
Runner-up	3.	13 January 1985	Auckland	Hardcourt	Broderick Dyke	Chris Lewis John Fitzgerald	7–6, 6–2
Runner-up	4.	31 March 1985	Milan	Carpet (i)	Broderick Dyke	Heinz Günthardt Anders Järryd	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	5.	20 October 1985	Sydney	Grass	Broderick Dyke	David Dowlen Nduka Odizor	6–4, 7–6
Runner-up	6.	11 May 1986	Munich	Clay	Broderick Dyke	Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez	6–3, 4–6, 6–4
Runner-up	7.	22 June 1986	Bristol	Grass	Mark Edmondson	Christo Steyn Danie Visser	6–7, 7–6, 12–10
Runner-up	8.	11 October 1987	Queensland Open	Hardcourt (i)	Broderick Dyke	Matt Anger Kelly Evernden	7–6, 6–2