Bio

Brad Gilbert, born August 9, 1961, played tennis for Foothill College, a junior college in Los Altos, California, from 1980082. During this time, he won the California Junior College Singles Championship and the U.S. Amateur Hardcourt Championship. In 1981, Gilbert was a member of the American Junior Davis Cup team. In 1982, he transferred to Pepperdine University, playing for Allen Fox, where he became an All-American and reached the finals of the 1982 NCAA championship.

Gilbert joined the professional tour in 1982, and won his first top-level singles title later that year in Taipei. His first doubles title came in 1985 in Tel Aviv.

Gilbert won a total of 20 top-level singles titles during his career, the biggest being the Cincinnati event in 1989. He was also runner-up in a further 20 singles events, including Cincinnati in 1990 (where he lost to future International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee Stefan Edberg) and the Paris Indoors in 1987 and 1988.

Gilbert's most successful year on the tour was 1989, during which he won five singles titles, including Cincinnati, where he beat four future Hall of Famers to claim the title: Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg, as well as Agustin Moreno and Jason Stoltenberg.

Gilbert's best performances at Grand Slam tournaments were at the 1987 US Open and 1990 Wimbledon, where he reached the quarterfinals. He was also runner-up at the inaugural Grand Slam Cup in 1990.

Gilbert was ranked among the top-10 players in the U.S. for 9 of his first 10 years on the professional tour. His career win-loss record in singles play was 5199288. His career prize-money totalled US$5,509,060.

Among his upsets of players ranked in the world's top-3 were his defeat of No. 2 Boris Becker 336, 663, 664 in Cincinnati in 1989, No. 2 Edberg 776(2), 667(1), 664 in Los Angeles in 1991, No. 3 Sampras 663, 664 in London in 1992, and No. 3 Jim Courier 664, 664 at Memphis in 1994, Edberg 664, 226, 776(5) in Cincinnati in 1989, and perhaps most significantly, No.2 John McEnroe 557, 664, 661 in the Masters in MSG New York in January 1986 which sent McEnroe into his first six month break from tennis.

Gilbert won a bronze medal in the men's singles at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.

He is an American tennis coach, a television tennis commentator, and former professional tennis player. 

As a player, Gilbert's career-high singles ranking was World No. 4, which he reached in January 1990. Since retiring from the tour, he has coached several top players including Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick and Andy Murray.