41 Facts About Philip Bester

Philip Bester was born on October 6,1988 and is a Canadian former professional tennis player from North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Philip Bester was coached by his dad Alek Philip Bester from age 5 when he started.

At age 13, still coached by his dad, Philip Bester moved down to Florida to attend the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy.

Philip Bester was a member of the 2005 Canadian Davis Cup team as a 17-year-old.

Philip Bester was voted British Columbia's junior male athlete of the year for 2005 and reached a career-high No 8 on the International Tennis Federation Junior Boys rankings on January 2,2006.

Philip Bester had a remarkable run for a natural serve-and-volleyer in becoming the first Canadian male junior to play in a Grand Slam final.

In 2006, Philip Bester competed in Canada's tie versus Mexico, losing a singles dead rubber in straight sets to Bruno Echagaray.

Philip Bester followed this up with a semi-finals result at USA F9 in Vero Beach.

Philip Bester began the year going 1 win and 1 loss at both Panama F1 and Costa Rica F1.

Philip Bester lost in the first round of his next two Futures events before again going 1 and 1 at this next two, Canada F2 and F3.

Philip Bester next reached the semi-finals of USA F7, and the quarter-finals of USA F8.

Philip Bester reached a new career high ranking in singles in May 2007 at World No 589.

Philip Bester went 1 and 1 in each of his next two events, but again failed at the challenger and ATP level, losing in the first round as a wildcard at Granby, Vancouver, and the Rogers Cup.

Philip Bester went 5 and 4 in his next four Futures events, including a semi-finals result at USA F24.

Philip Bester again failed to win in a Challenger, losing in the first round in Rimouski and Louisville.

Philip Bester finished the year going 2 and 2 in two Futures events in Mexico.

Philip Bester then lost in the first round of his next six events, Canada F2, USA F9, F10, F12, F13, and the Granby Challenger.

Philip Bester finally reached the second round of a challenger event, Moncton, defeating Satoshi Iwabuchi before falling to Nicholas Monroe.

Philip Bester lost in the first round at the next three Challengers that he contested before reaching the second round at USA F26 and the semi-finals of USA F27.

Philip Bester finished the year losing in the first round of the Rimouski Challenger.

For 2009, as of May 17, Philip Bester had 12 wins and 8 losses in singles after eight tournaments - Mexico F1, F2, USA F4, Canada F1 and F2, and USA F7, F8, F9, F10, and F11.

The week after, Philip Bester again reached the quarter-finals, of Canada F2, partnering Portuguese player Gastao Elias.

In doubles, Philip Bester partnered American Greg Ouellette for USA F10, F12, F13, and F14, with the tandem reaching the finals of the first these tourneys, the semi-finals of the next, followed by ad quarter-finals appearance, and then a second finals.

Philip Bester did not receive a wild card for the 2009 Rogers Cup in Montreal.

Philip Bester did not compete in any more tournaments for the year.

Philip Bester finished 2009 ranked World No 510 in singles and No 572 in doubles.

Philip Bester did not compete in Canada F2 the following week.

The week after Philip Bester lost in the second round of the USA F9 tournament in Little Rock, to No 1 seed Lester Cook.

The next week Philip Bester competed just in doubles at the 2010 Sarasota Open.

The resulting rankings points earned saw Philip Bester reach a new career high in singles, as he became World No 470.

The week after in singles Philip Bester fell however in the first round of France F11.

Philip Bester's singles ranking rose to another new career best, World No 456.

Philip Bester was right back in action the next week at the 2010 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby.

Philip Bester finished 2010 ranked World No 278 in singles and No 369 in doubles.

Philip Bester began the year by reaching the second round of singles qualifying for the 2011 Heineken Open.

Philip Bester's ranking improved to World No 268 in singles and No 242 in doubles, both new career highs.

In singles however, Philip Bester showed he is on his way to having recovered from injury in capturing his first title of 2011, USA F14, in Chico, California.

Philip Bester needed to come back from a set down in both his quarter-final and semi-final matches against opponents ranked 1187 and 769 respectively.

Philip Bester continued his climb up the singles rankings by reaching the second round of the 2011 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships, the fifth time he has done so in six Challenger events played this year.

Philip Bester's singles ranking reached a career best World No 229.

Missing singles No 1 Milos Raonic and No 2 Frank Dancevic, seeing his first Davis Cup action since 2006, Philip Bester capped off a love-two match deficit to see Canada advance to the World Group play-off round.