1. Robert Rhyne Williams was born on March 22,1991 and is a former American tennis player and current tennis coach.
31 Facts About Rhyne Williams
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Rhyne Williams played his last ATP match in 2018, and is coaching fellow collegiate player Dominik Koepfer, and Zachary Svajda.
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Rhyne Williams is the nephew of Mike De Palmer, former ATP pro who coached Boris Becker from 1994 to 1999.
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Rhyne Williams is the grandson of Mike DePalmer Sr, a coach at University of Tennessee.
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Rhyne Williams's grandfather is a member of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Hall of Fame and is the co-founder of the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy.
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Robert Rhyne Williams is the second child of Robert Rhyne Williams Sr.
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Rhyne Williams played baseball and basketball during his childhood and once considered choosing baseball over tennis.
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Rhyne Williams trained at the USTA headquarter in Boca Raton and shared an apartment with his best friend and former vol teammate, Tennys Sandgren.
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Rhyne Williams enjoys playing golf and fishing during free time.
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Rhyne Williams has a multi-year deal with ABN AMRO Clearing and writes a weekly blog documenting his progress on their website.
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Rhyne Williams was coached by his grandfather, but he went on to train under the USTA Player's Development Program after winning the Junior Orange Bowl 14s.
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Rhyne Williams won the USA F16 in Pittsburgh in 2007 at the age of 16 years and 3 months, which made him the youngest US male to win an ITF Men's Circuit event in the United States.
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Since claiming his 1st futures title in 2007, Rhyne Williams couldn't handle the pressure of turning pro and decided to go to college, "I guess the main reason I went to school was to mature," he recalls.
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Rhyne Williams played two years of college tennis for his hometown Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville, Tennessee, under head coach Sam Winterbotham and associate head coach Chris Woodruff.
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Rhyne Williams enjoyed one of the best two seasons of any player in program history with accomplishments including: All-America honors in 2010 and 2011, earning the No 1 national singles ranking in 2011 and reaching the 2011 NCAA Singles Championships.
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Rhyne Williams started out his career with a splash, earning 2010 Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year honors and helping the team to the NCAA finals.
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Rhyne Williams played at the No 1 and 2 singles positions during the team season and played doubles with fellow Tennessee native Tennys Sandgren.
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Rhyne Williams concluded his college career by reaching the final of the 2011 NCAA Singles Championship, this time losing to Johnson in three sets.
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Rhyne Williams played in his first Futures tournament in 2006, and won his first tournament in Pittsburgh in July 2007, aged just 16.
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Rhyne Williams's reached 782 in the ATP rankings in November 2007, a position he would not better until August 2010.
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Rhyne Williams entered his first tournament at the ATP Challenger level at the Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships in 2008, but competed mainly in Futures tournaments until 2011.
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Rhyne Williams won his second Futures competition in June 2011, at Innisbruck, Florida.
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The second half of 2011 saw Rhyne Williams compete more regularly at the Challenger Tour, and in the qualifying for the 2011 US Open.
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Rhyne Williams subsequently made two quarter-finals in Challenger tournaments, entering the top 300 for the first time.
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Rhyne Williams achieved his best result in a Challenger tournament at the end of the season, reaching the semi-finals at the JSM Challenger, ensuring that he would end the year ranked in the world top 200.
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Rhyne Williams then played in the Dallas Challenger, and won his first challenger tournament defeating Robby Ginepri in the finals.
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Rhyne Williams gained 100 points and had defeated Austin Krajicek, Rajeev Ram, Alex Kuznetsov, and Frank Dancevic on his way to the finals.
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Rhyne Williams made his first career ATP semifinal at the US Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston, defeating Pella Guido, Ivo Karolvic, and Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo before falling to World No 12, Nicolas Almagro.
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Rhyne Williams lost in his French Open debut and FQR of 2013 Wimbledon.
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Rhyne Williams made his first ATP Doubles Final partnering Tim Smyczek at Hall of Fame Tennis Championships.
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Rhyne Williams struggled with shoulder injury and didn't fare well in the USO summer hardcourt swing.