Roger Smith (tennis)

Also, he won the Ohio Inter-Collegiate Championship by besting a scrappy sophomore from Bowling Green State University, Ken Bruce, in a thrilling final 4−6, 6−2, 6−1.

In October, Smith and Wekesa won the Tel Aviv Challenger, defeating Patrick Baur and Mronz.

In his second tournament of the year, Smith reached the semi-finals of Auckland Outdoor grand prix event, defeating home country favourite Kelly Evernden in the quarters before falling to World No.

The following month, Smith helped the Bahamas Davis Cup team win their first-ever tie, 5−0 over Venezuela.

Smith handily defeated Juan Carlos Bianchi in the first rubber before combining John Farrington to win the doubles 10−8 in the fifth.

In April, the Bahamas equalled this success, winning 5−0 over the Dominican Republic, as Smith again won the first rubber and the doubles partnering Farrington.

In May he competed for the first time in the main draws at Roland Garros, losing soundly in straight sets to an up-and-coming Michael Stich, and in doubles partnering Brad Pearce.

Despite going winless in grand prix events, he continued to have success in doubles during the North American hard court season, reaching the semi-finals of the Player's International in Canada and the third round of the US Open, on both occasions partnering Frenchman Jean-Philippe Fleurian.

Then in October playing with Todd Nelson, Smith reached the finals of the grand prix event in Toulouse and the semi-finals in Vienna.

Smith redeemed himself from the previous year's disappointment in Davis Cup by first winning all three of his live rubbers to see the Bahamas past Costa Rica 4−1 in February.

Smith's poor run continued during the summer and it was not until September that he won a tournament, in Brasília partnering Cannon.

After opening the year with a first round doubles loss at the Australian Open, Smith helped the Bahamas defeat the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States 4−1 and then Peru 3−2, to begin a run that would see the tiny Caribbean nation reach World Group Qualifying Round in the autumn of 2003.

The following month saw Smith the hero as he won the fifth and deciding rubber, handily as it turned out, over Carlos di Laura.

Things started badly however as Smith lost the opening match to tour veteran Jaime Yzaga, as he surrendered a two sets to one lead.

The now 20-year-old Mark Knowles took the second handily over Di Laura before teaming with Smith to easily defeat the Peruvians in doubles 3, 2, and 3.

On tour, Smith continued a run of first and second round defeats in doubles while in singles he managed to reach one final before July, the Itu Challenger in Brazil, which he lost to Robbie Weiss.

Smith easily defeated the home side's second choice Maurice Ruah 2, 3, and 1 while the fast emerging Knowles handled former Wimbledon junior champion Nicolás Pereira 2, 3, and 4.

The end of July saw Smith qualify for the main singles draw at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where he was defeated in the first round by Russia's Andrei Cherkasov.

He finished the year strongly in singles reaching the final of the Kuala Lumpur-2 Challenger to Chris Wilkinson and in the semis in Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

Smith began the year smartly reaching the final of the Wellington Challenger in doubles partnering Knowles and the second round in singles.

In July, a refreshed Smith reached the semi-finals of the Aptos Challenger, losing in that round to a young Patrick Rafter.

In August he and partner Jean-Philippe Fleurian won the Istanbul Challenger, while the following week in Segovia Smith and Maurice Ruah reached the final.

To qualify for the Davis Cup 1994 World Group the Bahamas needed to upset the Andre Agassi-led U.S. away, in a tie held in late September in Charlotte, North Carolina.

This meant the Bahamian tandem needed to win the doubles match to keep their faint hopes for an upset alive.

Smith bounced back from the Davis Cup disappointment to reach the finals of the Monterrey Challenger, partnering Frenchman Fleurian.

Smith finished the year strongly reaching the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Challenger, partnering Kenny Thorne.

Smith began the year by qualifying for the Australian Open and losing in the first round against 10th seed Magnus Gustafsson in a five-set thriller 6–3, 5–7, 2–6, 6–2, 2–6.

In 1996, Smith won his third and last doubles title at the Shanghai Open once again partnering fellow Bahamian Mark Knowles where they beat 2nd seed Jim Grabb and Michael Tebbutt in the final in three sets.

He received a wildcard into the qualifying draw of the 1999 US Open but lost in the first round to 31st seed Christian Vinck in straight sets.

He partnered American Kiantki Thomas and made the semifinals before losing to Luke Bourgeois and Alun Jones in straight sets.