Greg Jones

Greg Jones

Personal Information

Date of Birth January 31, 1989

Greg Jones: A Brief Biography

Greg Jones is an Australian professional tennis player. Jones competed in a number of high profile events throughout his junior career including all four of the junior grand slams, most notably making the final of the 2007 French Open. In 2007, Jones, having reached the finals of the junior event at the French Open, a semifinal at Wimbledon and a quarterfinal finish at the Australian Open, was very hopeful for a win at the last US Open Junior event, which was his last match in the International Tennis Federation Junior Competition. Jones had a Junior career high ranking of 4 and won 191 out of 219 matches. Jones began playing professional tournaments in 2006. 2009 saw Jones compete in all the Australian ATP events again in January, but he was unable to qualify for any of the main draw in either Brisbane, Sydney or the Australian Open. Jones won his second future tournament of his career in April 2009 in Australia. In February 2010 he was able to make a second finals appearance at the challenger tournament in Burnie, going down to rising star Bernard Tomic in the final. On 10 October 2010, Jones won silver for Australia in the Men\'s Tennis in the Commonwealth Games 2010 at Delhi, losing to India\'s Somdev Devvarman in the gold medal match played at the R.K. Khanna tennis stadium.