Eric Butorac

Eric Butorac

Country (sports)	United States
Residence	Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Born	May 22, 1981 Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Turned pro	2003
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
College	Ball State Cardinals/Gustavus Adolphus College
Prize money	$1,728,454
Singles
Career record	0–0
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 935 (January 16, 2006)
Doubles
Career record	269–242 (in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	18
Highest ranking	No. 17 (August 29, 2011)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	F (2014)
French Open	3R (2012, 2016)
Wimbledon	3R (2007, 2014)
US Open	QF (2014)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2011, 2012, 2015)
French Open	SF (2014)
Wimbledon	3R (2013, 2014)
US Open	2R (2016)
Last updated on: February 1, 2016.

Eric "Booty" Butorac (born May 22, 1981 in Rochester, Minnesota) is an American tennis player. He is a doubles specialist, and has achieved success being the No. 3 ranked American doubles player for the bulk of the past six years. His biggest result has been reaching the 2014 Australian Open finals with partner Raven Klaasen. Their run to the final included a victory over the World No. 1 team of Bob and Mike Bryan.

He attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he played on the men's tennis team for one year before transferring to Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, where he graduated in 2003.

Family

Eric's parents, Jan and Tim Butorac, are directors of the Rochester Tennis Connection (Indoor & Outdoor site) in Rochester, Minnesota. Eric's brother, Jeff Butorac, is a basketball coach at Century High School. Tim is a USPTA Professional, teaching tennis at the Rochester Indoor Tennis Club during the winter and at the Kutzky/Rochester Outdoor Tennis Center during the summer months.

College Career

Eric played at Ball State University for one year before transferring to Gustavus Adolphus College. Eric has a long history with Gustavus: his father played for coach Steve Wilkinson, and Eric attended tennis camp with Steve starting at age 5. Eric closed out his senior season of 2003 by winning both the NCAA Division III singles and doubles championships, with Kevin Whipple as his partner.^[1]

Recent Activity

In 2014, Butorac started his year with reaching the final of the Australian Open. He then went on to win titles in Memphis and Stockholm. All of these were with partner Raven Klaasen.

In 2013, Butorac made it to the Round of 16 at the Australian Open and won the doubles title in Kuala Lumpur with Raven Klaasen.

In 2012, Butorac made the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and won the doubles title in São Paulo (with Bruno Soares).

In 2011, Butorac had his best season reaching a career-high ranking of no. 17, and finishing as the no. 9 team in the world with partner Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands. They won three titles and made the semifinals of the Australian Open.

In 2010, Butorac paired with Rajeev Ram to make the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. He also won titles in Chennai (with Ram), Tokyo and Stockholm (with Rojer). He was on the 2010 roster of the Boston Lobsters in the World Team Tennis pro league.

In April, May, and June 2009, Butorac and American Scott Lipsky won the Tallahassee Tennis Challenger, the Estoril Open in Portugal, and a tournament in Nottingham, England.^[2]

In early February 2007, the US-Scots pair claimed their first doubles title in a Challenger event in Dallas,^[3] and a week later they won their first ATP title at the SAP Open.^[4] They continued their winning run the following week when the unseeded pair defeated second seeds Julian Knowle and Jürgen Melzer, 7–5, 6–3, to capture the doubles title of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships at the Racquet Club of Memphis.

In July 2006, Butorac and Jamie Murray reached their first ATP Tour doubles final, in Los Angeles, losing in straight sets to the Bryan brothers, who were the world's top-ranked doubles team.

Off court

Butorac is the president of the ATP Player's Council. He succeeded Roger Federer as president (whom he served under as VP for the previous term).

Starting in 2010, Butorac has been the volunteer assistant coach at Harvard University.

He is one of only three players from the NCAA Division III ranks to ever make a living on the tour.

In 2009 Butorac started the Minnesota Tennis Challenge, a charity event to benefit St. Paul Urban Tennis. Participants included Bob and Mike Bryan, Justin Gimblestob, Rajeev Ram, Melanie Oudin, and Somdev Devvarman.

Butorac is a regular speaker at coaching conventions and USTA showcases around the country.

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2014	Australian Open	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Łukasz Kubot Robert Lindstedt	3–6, 3–6

ATP career finals

Doubles: 29 (18 titles, 11 runners-up)

Legend ( Doubles) Grand Slam tournaments (0–1) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (2–2) ATP World Tour 250 Series (16–8)

Titles by Surface Hard (12–9) Clay (5–2) Grass (1–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	July 30, 2006	LA Tennis Open, Los Angeles, United States	Hard	Jamie Murray	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	2–6, 4–6
Winner	1.	February 18, 2007	SAP Open, San Jose, United States	Hard	Jamie Murray	Chris Haggard Rainer Schüttler	7–5, 7–6^(8–6)
Winner	2.	February 25, 2007	Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup, Memphis, United States	Hard	Jamie Murray	Julian Knowle Jürgen Melzer	7–5, 6–3
Winner	3.	June 23, 2007	Nottingham Open, Nottingham, Great Britain	Grass	Jamie Murray	Joshua Goodall Ross Hutchins	4–6, 6–3, [10–5]
Winner	4.	August 10, 2008	LA Tennis Open, Los Angeles, United States	Hard	Rohan Bopanna	Travis Parrott Dušan Vemić	7–6^(7–5), 7–6^(7–5)
Winner	5.	January 11, 2009	Chennai Open, Chennai, India	Hard	Rajeev Ram	Jean-Claude Scherrer Stanislas Wawrinka	6–3, 6–4
Winner	6.	May 10, 2009	Estoril Open, Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Scott Lipsky	Martin Damm Robert Lindstedt	6–3, 6–2
Winner	7.	October 4, 2009	PTT Thailand Open, Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Rajeev Ram	Guillermo García-López Mischa Zverev	7–6^(7–4), 6–3
Runner-up	2.	May 9, 2010	BMW Open, Munich, Germany	Clay	Michael Kohlmann	Oliver Marach Santiago Ventura	7–5, 3–6, [14–16]
Runner-up	3.	August 1, 2010	Los Angeles Open, Los Angeles, United States	Hard	Jean-Julien Rojer	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7–6^(8–6), 2–6, [7–10]
Winner	8.	October 10, 2010	Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Jean-Julien Rojer	Andreas Seppi Dmitry Tursunov	6–3, 6–2
Winner	9.	October 24, 2010	If Stockholm Open, Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Jean-Julien Rojer	Johan Brunström Jarkko Nieminen	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	February 20, 2011	Regions Morgan Keegan Championships, Memphis, United States	Hard (i)	Jean-Julien Rojer	Max Mirnyi Daniel Nestor	2–6, 7–6^(8–6), [3–10]
Winner	10.	May 1, 2011	Estoril Open, Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Jean-Julien Rojer	Marc López David Marrero	6–3, 6–4
Winner	11.	May 21, 2011	Open de Nice Côte d'Azur, Nice, France	Clay	Jean-Julien Rojer	Santiago González David Marrero	6–3, 6–4
Winner	12.	October 2, 2011	Proton Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard (i)	Jean-Julien Rojer	František Čermák Filip Polášek	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	5.	November 6, 2011	Valencia Open 500, Valencia, Spain	Hard (i)	Jean-Julien Rojer	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–4, 7–6^(11–9)
Winner	13.	February 19, 2012	Brasil Open, São Paulo, Brazil	Clay (i)	Bruno Soares	Michal Mertiňák André Sá	3–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Runner-up	6.	September 30, 2012	PTT Thailand Open, Bangkok, Thailand	Hard (i)	Paul Hanley	Lu Yen-hsun Danai Udomchoke	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	7.	January 5, 2013	Brisbane International, Brisbane, Australia	Hard	Paul Hanley	Marcelo Melo Tommy Robredo	6–4, 1–6, [5–10]
Runner-up	8.	May 5, 2013	BMW Open, Munich, Germany	Clay	Marcos Baghdatis	Jarkko Nieminen Dmitry Tursunov	1–6, 4–6
Winner	14.	September 29, 2013	Proton Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard (i)	Raven Klaasen	Pablo Cuevas Horacio Zeballos	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	9.	January 25, 2014	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Łukasz Kubot Robert Lindstedt	3–6, 3–6
Winner	15.	February 16, 2014	U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships, Memphis, United States	Hard (i)	Raven Klaasen	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–4, 6–4
Winner	16.	October 19, 2014	If Stockholm Open, Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Raven Klaasen	Treat Huey Jack Sock	6-4, 6-3
Runner-up	10.	August 29, 2015	Winston-Salem Open, Winston-Salem, United States	Hard	Scott Lipsky	Dominic Inglot Robert Lindstedt	2–6, 4–6
Winner	17.	November 1, 2015	Valencia Open, Valencia, Spain	Hard (i)	Scott Lipsky	Feliciano López Max Mirnyi	7–6^(7–4), 6–3
Runner-up	11.	January 16, 2016	ASB Classic, Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Scott Lipsky	Mate Pavić Michael Venus	5–7, 4–6
Winner	18.	May 1, 2016	Estoril Open, Cascais, Portugal	Clay	Scott Lipsky	Łukasz Kubot Marcin Matkowski	6–4, 3–6, [10–8]

Doubles Performance Timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

R#

RR

Q#

A

P

Z#

PO

G

F-S

SF-B

NMS

NH

(W) Won tournament; reached (F) final, (SF) semifinal, (QF) quarterfinal; (R#) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; competed at a (RR) round-robin stage; reached a (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; played in a (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; won a (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; or (NH) tournament not held.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated either at the conclusion of a tournament, or when the player's participation in the tournament has ended.

Current till 2015 US Open.

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	SR	W-L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	2R	3R	1R	QF	SF	QF	3R	F	3R	0 / 9	22–9
French Open	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	3R	2R	2R	1R	0 / 9	4–9
Wimbledon	3R	2R	2R	1R	2R	2R	1R	3R	2R	0 / 9	9–9
US Open	2R	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R	2R	QF	3R	0 / 9	9–9
Win–Loss	4–4	3–4	1–4	3–4	6–4	7–4	4–4	11–4	5–4	0 / 35	44–36

References

1. Patton, Mark. "Gustavus Adolphus, Division III Tennis the Right Choice for Eric Butorac".
2. "Tennis Players – Scott Lipsky". ATP World Tour. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
3. "Jamie Murray wins doubles title"
4. "San Jose Continues To Be Kind To Murray" (last paragraph)

External links

• Eric Butorac at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Eric Butorac at the International Tennis Federation
• Eric Butorac's Minnesota Tennis Challenge