Scott Lipsky (born August 14, 1981 in Merrick, New York) is an American former professional tennis player and coach.
After losing only one match in high school in New York, he was a three-time All-American for Stanford University, playing both singles and doubles.
Lipsky currently is the head coach of the tennis programs at St. Margaret's Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano, California, a position he has held since July 2018.
[3] He was a three-time New York State high school tennis champion and won a gold medal for the Long Island team at the Junior Maccabi Games.
Lipsky won the 1995 United States Tennis Association (USTA) Boys’ 14s Clay Court Championships in singles.
[15] In 2004, he won the first pro singles title of his career at the USTA Futures event in Yuba City, California, without dropping a set.
[11][17][18] He also won a doubles title with Lesley Joseph at the USTA Futures event in Auburn, California.
Lipsky and Martin captured their first ATP title in February 2008 indoor on hard courts at the SAP Open in San Jose.
They defeated the number one ranked doubles team of Bob and Mike Bryan, 7–6 (4), 7–5, at HP Pavilion in a finals that matched former Stanford stars.
[11] In singles, in June 2008 Lipsky defeated world # 94 Jérémy Chardy of France 7–5, 4–6, 6–3, in Halle, Germany.
[26] In April, May, and June 2009, Lipsky and American Eric Butorac won the Tallahassee Tennis Challenger, the Estoril Open in Portugal, and a tournament in Nottingham, Great Britain.
[26] Then, playing with Rik de Voest of South Africa, Lipsky won the Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger in Binghamton, New York.
He won a tournament in Singapore with Martin, and partnering with Rajeev Ram in February took the indoor hard court San Jose Open (over Christopher Kas from Germany and Alexander Peya from Austria) and the outdoor hard court Delray Beach titles (over Alejandro Falla from Colombia and Xavier Malisse from Belgium).
[29] Lipsky then won his first ATP World Tour 500 title, teaming with Santiago González of Mexico in April.
They won the outdoor clay Barcelona Open, defeating the world # 1 Bryan brothers in the finals as they broke their 10-match winning streak, 5–7, 6–2, 12–10.
They also defeated top doubles teams Jürgen Melzer (# 8)/Nenad Zimonjić (# 4), 6–3, 6–2, and Max Mirnyi (# 6)/Daniel Nestor (# 3), 7–6 (4), 6–4.
Lipsky and his partner Casey Dellacqua of Australia caused a major upset in the mixed doubles, winning the championship and defeating defending champions Katarina Srebotnik and Nenad Zimonjić 7–6, 4–6, 10–7, despite being unseeded.