Owen Casey

Owen Casey (born 22 October 1969 in Dublin ) is a former Irish tennis player.

Career

Casey was able to prevail on a higher professional level such as the ATP Challenger Tour never, even if he could win a title in a double 1992. Also for Grand Slam tournaments he had never qualified.

He assumed, however, equal to three Olympic Games in part: 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona and 1996 in Atlanta. In 1988, he joined with Eoin Collins in the doubles competition. They lost in the opening round of the Israelis Amos Mansdorf and Gilad Bloom in four sets. In 1992 he joined again with Collins in doubles, where they won the first round against the Mexicans Leonardo Lavalle and Fernando Maciel. However, in the second round against the Swiss Jakob Hlasek and Marc Rosset they remained chance in three sets. In single- Casey suffered in the first round a smooth loss to Sweden Magnus Gustafsson. 1996 Atlanta enters Casey 's last Olympic insert on the side of Scott Barron in doubles. However, towards the Canadian Grant Connell and Daniel Nestor Barron and Casey had to give clearly beaten in straight sets.

Casey played between 1988 and 2002 a total of 26 matches for the Irish Davis Cup team. Both its individual balance sheet with 21:9 as well as its double balance with 12:7 is positive. So Casey holds several national records: He is not only the best player with the most overall success, as well as most success in singles and doubles, but is also with the 26 encounters even record player.