Hometown Pro Lipsky Captures 2011 Mixed-Doubles Title at Roland Garros
June 2, 2011 | By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The magical run of Merrick, N.Y.’s Scott Lipsky and his mixed-doubles partner, Australian Casey Dellacqua, has finally come to an end at Roland Garros as the duo captured the 2011 Mixed-Doubles Championship. The unseeded Lipsky & Dellacqua defeated the team of defending French Open champions Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia & Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia, 7-6 (8-6), 4-6, 10-7 for their first ever Grand Slam victory.
Lipsky attended and played his high school tennis at John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore, N.Y. and took his talents to the West Coast for the Stanford University tennis team. After graduating from Stanford, Scott turned pro and started playing on the Futures Circuit and then the Challengers.
Lipsky & Dellacqua advanced to the finals with a 7-6(5), 2-6, 14-12 win over Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil & Jarmila Gajdosova of Australia. His Grench Open win comes just weeks after he teamed with Santiago Gonzalez, playing together for the first time, and upsetting Bob & Mike Bryan to win the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell Doubles Championship, 5-7, 6-2, 12-10. En route to their Barcelona Open championship, Lipsky & Gonzalez knocked off the number three seeds Jurgen Melzer & Nenad Zimonjic, and the number two seeds, Max Mirnyi & Daniel Nestor.
