Andrew Harris (tennis)

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Andrew Harris
Full nameAndrew Harris
Country (sports) Australia
ResidenceMelbourne, Australia
Born (1994-03-07) 7 March 1994 (age 30)
Box Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Height183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro2011
PlaysRight-handed (one-handed backhand)
CollegeOklahoma
Prize moneyUS $415,212
Singles
Career record1–2
Highest rankingNo. 159 (11 November 2019)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open1R (2020)
French OpenQ1 (2020)
WimbledonQ3 (2019)
US OpenQ1 (2019)
Doubles
Career record5–14
Highest rankingNo. 84 (30 October 2023)
Current rankingNo. 108 (8 April 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open1R (2020, 2021, 2022, 2024)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian OpenSF (2024)
Last updated on: 8 April 2024.

Andrew Harris (born 7 March 1994) is an Australian professional tennis player who is a doubles specialist. He has career high rankings of No. 84 in doubles achieved on 30 October 2023 and No. 159 in singles achieved on 11 November 2019. He was the winner of the junior doubles titles at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships and at Roland Garros.

Professional career[edit]

2011-2012: Professional debut[edit]

Harris's first appearance in a professional tournament was at the Australia F7 in September 2011, where he made the quarterfinal before losing to Alex Bolt.

Harris lost in round 1 of the 2012 Australian Open qualification to Denys Molchanov, before competing in three Future tournaments in Australia. His best result being a quarterfinal in Australia F4 in March where he retired whilst playing Maverick Banes. Harris played only one more tournament in 2012, the Great Britain F10 in July, where he lost in the second round.

2013[edit]

He signed a National Letter of Intent with Oklahoma Sooners to participate in 2013.[1]

Harris successfully returned to competition in May 2013, where he made the final of the Thailand F2, losing to Saketh Myneni of India. The following week, he made the semifinal of the Thailand F3, losing to fellow Australian Adam Feeney in straight sets. Throughout June and July, Harris competed in Futures throughout Europe, his best performance being a quarterfinal in Belgium F4, before winning his first title in October in Texas at the USA F27 against Dennis Nevolo.

2014[edit]

Harris retired from round 1 of the qualification for the 2014 Brisbane International before competing in the Men's qualifying of the 2014 Australian Open, where he made round 2. Harris didn't play again until June, where he played in 5 futures in the USA. The best result was at the F17 in Oklahoma City, where he was runner-up to Jared Donaldson.

2015[edit]

Harris commenced the 2015 season at the Onkaparinga Challenger, where he qualified and registered his first Challenger main draw win, defeating Hiroki Moriya 7–5, 6–1. He made it to the semi-final, before losing to Marcos Baghdatis. This increased Harris's ATP ranking 157 places to a career high of No. 497. Harris made the second round of Australian Open qualifying. This was the last match Harris played for almost 2 years.

2017-2018: Return to the Tour[edit]

In January 2017, Harris returned to tennis gaining a wildcard into the 2017 Canberra Challenger. He defeated Thomas Fancutt in round 1, before losing to Jan-Lennard Struff in a close 3-set match. Harris did not play again until June 2017 on the ITF Futures circuit in USA. In July, he lost in qualifying rounds of two Canadian Challenger events. In September, Harris returned to Australia and won his second ITF title at Toowoomba in October.

Harris spend the 2018 year on the ITF Futures and ATP Challenger Circuits across Australia and United States of America. His best performances were semifinal results at Launceston in February, Australia F4 in March, USA F19 in July and USA F23 in August.

2019: First Challenger finals, top 200[edit]

In February, Harris reached his first ATP Challenger Tour final at Chennai Open Challenger. The result led to a career-high ranking.[2] In May, Harris reached the final of Busan Challenger, further improving his ranking.[3] In August, Harris lost in the first round of 2019 US Open – Men's singles qualifying.

2020: Grand Slam debut[edit]

Harris was awarded a wildcard into the 2020 Australian Open, where he lost in straight sets to 8th seed Matteo Berrettini. Harris ended 2020 with a singles rank of 229.

2021: First ATP singles win[edit]

Harris commenced 2021 at the 2021 Murray River Open, where he recorded his first ATP main draw win against Taro Daniel. Harris lost in the second round of the 2021 Australian Open – Men's singles qualifying. This was the final tournament Harris played for the year.

2022: Three Challenger doubles titles[edit]

Harris lost in the first round of qualifying at the 2022 Australian Open.[4]

2023: Maiden ATP doubles final[edit]

At the 2023 Los Cabos Open he reached his maiden ATP final with Dominik Koepfer.[5]

Junior Grand Slam finals[edit]

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)[edit]

Result Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 2012 French Open Clay Australia Nick Kyrgios Czech Republic Adam Pavlásek
Czech Republic Václav Šafránek
6–4, 2–6, [10–7]
Win 2012 Wimbledon Grass Australia Nick Kyrgios Italy Matteo Donati
Italy Pietro Licciardi
6–2, 6–4

ATP career finals[edit]

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)[edit]

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
ATP Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP Tour 500 Series (0–0)
ATP Tour 250 Series (0–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Aug 2023 Los Cabos Open,
Mexico
250 Series Hard Germany Dominik Koepfer Mexico Santiago González
France Édouard Roger-Vasselin
4–6, 5–7

Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals[edit]

Singles: 9 (2–7)[edit]

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–3)
ITF Futures Tour (2–4)
Titles by surface
Hard (2–7)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Jun 2013 Thailand F2, Bangkok Futures Hard India Saketh Myneni 6–7(4–7), 1–6
Win 1–1 Oct 2013 USA F27, Mansfield Futures Hard United States Dennis Nevolo 6–4, 7–6(7–5)
Loss 1–2 Jun 2014 USA F17, Oklahoma City Futures Hard United States Jared Donaldson 3–6, 2–6
Win 2–2 Oct 2017 Australia F6, Toowoomba Futures Hard Australia Jason Kubler 6–4, 6–0
Loss 2–3 Nov 2017 Vietnam F3, Thủ Dầu Một City Futures Hard India Arjun Kadhe 5–7, 3–6
Loss 2–4 Feb 2019 Chennai, India Challenger Hard France Corentin Moutet 3–6, 3–6
Loss 2–5 May 2019 Busan, South Korea Challenger Hard Lithuania Ričardas Berankis 6–7(5–7), 2–6
Loss 2–6 Oct 2019 Traralgon, Australia Challenger Hard Australia Marc Polmans 5–7, 3–6
Loss 2-7 Mar 2022 M25 Bendigo, Australia World Tennis Tour Hard Australia Li Tu 3–6, 1–6

Doubles: 15 (8–7)[edit]

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (7–6)
ITF Futures Tour (1–1)
Titles by surface
Hard (7–6)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–1)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Jul 2012 Great Britain F10, Ilkley Futures Grass Australia Andrew Whittington United Kingdom Lewis Burton
United Kingdom Edward Corrie
1–6, 1–6
Win 1–1 Oct 2019 Ningbo, China Challenger Hard Australia Marc Polmans Australia Alex Bolt
Australia Matt Reid
6–0, 6–1
Win 2–1 May 2022 M25 Prague World Tennis Tour Clay Israel Daniel Cukierman Czech Republic Filip Duda
Germany Peter Heller
6–0, 6–3
Win 3–1 May 2022 Little Rock, USA Challenger Hard United States Christian Harrison United States Robert Galloway
United States Max Schnur
6–3, 6–4
Win 4–1 Jul 2022 Rome, USA Challenger Hard (i) France Enzo Couacaud Philippines Ruben Gonzales
United States Reese Stalder
6–4, 6–2
Win 5–1 Nov 2022 Matsuyama, Japan Challenger Hard Australia John-Patrick Smith Japan Toshihide Matsui
Japan Kaito Uesugi
6–3, 4–6, [10–8]
Loss 5–2 Nov 2022 Kobe, Japan Challenger Hard (i) Australia John-Patrick Smith Japan Shinji Hazawa
Japan Yuta Shimizu
4–6, 4–6
Loss 5–3 Jan 2023 Canberra, Australia Challenger Hard Australia John-Patrick Smith Sweden André Göransson
Japan Ben McLachlan
3–6, 7–5, [5–10]
Win 6–3 Feb 2023 Tenerife, Spain Challenger Hard United States Christian Harrison United Kingdom Luke Johnson
Netherlands Sem Verbeek
7–6(8–6), 6–7(4–7), [10–8]
Loss 6–4 May 2023 Gwangju, South Korea Challenger Hard Australia John-Patrick Smith United States Evan King
United States Reese Stalder
4–6, 2–6
Win 7–4 Jun 2023 Tyler, United States Challenger Hard Australia Alex Bolt United States Evan King
United States Reese Stalder
6–1, 6–4
Loss 7–5 Jul 2023 Chicago, United States Challenger Hard South Korea Chung Yun-seong Latvia Mikelis Libietis
Tunisia Skander Mansouri
6–7(5–7), 3–6
Win 8–5 Sep 2023 Cary, United States Challenger Hard Australia Rinky Hijikata United States William Blumberg
Venezuela Luis David Martinez
6–4, 3–6, [10–6]
Loss 8–6 Oct 2023 Málaga, Spain Challenger Hard Australia John-Patrick Smith United Kingdom Julian Cash
United States Robert Galloway
5–7, 2–6
Loss 8–7 Nov 2023 Kobe, Japan Challenger Hard South Korea Nam Ji-sung United States Evan King
United States Reese Stalder
6–7(3–7), 6–2, [7–10]

Performance timeline[edit]

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles[edit]

Tournament 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 SR W–L Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open Q1 A Q2 Q2 A A A A 1R Q2 Q1 0 / 1 0–1 0%
French Open A A A A A A A A Q1 A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Wimbledon A A A A A A A Q3 NH A Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
US Open A A A A A A A Q1 A A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–0 0–0 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Career statistics
Year-end ranking 1151 598 654 687 442 343 161 229 382 681 $377,176

Doubles[edit]

Tournament 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 SR W–L Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open 1R 1R 1R A 1R 0 / 4 0–4 0%
French Open A A A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Wimbledon NH A A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
US Open A A A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Win–loss 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–0 0–1 0 / 4 0–4 0%
Career statistics
Year-end ranking 260 698 135 96

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Roddick Signs Junior Standout Andrew Harris". Oklahoma Sooners. 22 April 2013. Archived from the original on 14 July 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  2. ^ "BIGGEST MOVERS: HARRIS MAKES LEAP AFTER CHALLENGER SUCCESS". Tennis Australia. 12 February 2019. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  3. ^ "BIGGEST MOVERS: HARRIS APPROACHING TOP 200". Tennis Australia. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Fourteen Aussie Men to Contest Australian Open 2022 Qualifying". Tennis Australia. 10 January 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Mexican Santiago Gonzalez lifts doubles title at los Cabos – los Cabos Tennis Open". 5 August 2023.

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