Matt Anger
This page provides a comprehensive overview of Matt Anger’s Grand Slam career. It combines key background information and career-level statistics with a complete, filterable list of his tournament results, showing how far he progressed in each Grand Slam event across his career.
Insights
Peak came in 1986 with back-to-back Round of 16 runs
Anger’s best Grand Slam results were two R16 finishes, both in 1986 at the US Open and Wimbledon. Those were his deepest runs in a 15-tournament career and came at age 23.
Australian Open was his most productive major overall
He appeared five times at the Australian Open and reached at least the Round of 32 in four of those starts: R32 in 1983 and 1985, R32 again in 1987, and R64 in 1988. That makes it his clearest source of repeated progress across the data.
Wimbledon produced both his best and his last result
Wimbledon is where he matched his career-best R16 in 1986, then posted R32 in 1987 and R128 in 1988 and 1989. The sequence shows a sharp decline from his peak there to two straight first-round exits.
His Grand Slam career was concentrated between ages 20 and 26
Every listed result falls between age 20 and 26, with his first appearances in 1983 at age 20 and his final one in 1989 at age 26. The data shows a compact seven-year span with no Grand Slam results outside that window.
He finished with consecutive first-round exits after his best stretch
After reaching R16 twice in 1986 and R32 twice in 1987, Anger’s last three Slam results were R128, R128, and R128. Those came at the 1987 US Open, the 1988 US Open and Wimbledon, and the 1989 Wimbledon.
Basics
| Born | 20 June 1963 |
| Gender | Male |
| Nation | United States |
| Era | Open Era |
| Grand Slam careerCareer | 1983-1989 |
Grand Slam statistics
| Tournaments | 15 |
| Best results | 2 x R16 4 x R32 4 x R64 |
| Total matches | 33 |
| W/L-record | 18-15 (55% won) |
Compared with other men
| In the Open Era | #456 of 2311 |
| With overlapping career | #142 of 431 |
| From United States | #95 of 466 |
| Born in 1963 | #14 of 49 |
| Year | Tournament | Result | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Wimbledon | R128 | 26 |
| 1988 | US Open | R128 | 25 |
| 1988 | Wimbledon | R128 | 25 |
| 1988 | Australian Open | R64 | 24 |
| 1987 | US Open | R128 | 24 |
| 1987 | Wimbledon | R32 | 24 |
| 1987 | French Open | R64 | 23 |
| 1987 | Australian Open | R32 | 23 |
| 1986 | US Open | R16 | 23 |
| 1986 | Wimbledon | R16 | 23 |
| 1985 | Australian Open | R32 | 22 |
| 1985 | Wimbledon | R64 | 22 |
| 1984 | Australian Open | R64 | 21 |
| 1983 | Australian Open | R32 | 20 |
| 1983 | US Open | R128 | 20 |
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