Andrew Harris (born 7 March 1994) is an Australian tennis coach and a professional former player who was a doubles specialist in his late career. He reached career high rankings of No. 84 in doubles 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. He attended the University of Oklahoma.
Professional career 2011-2012: Professional debut 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
He signed a National Letter of Intent with Oklahoma Sooners to participate in 2013.
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 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 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 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 In February, Harris reached his first ATP Challenger Tour final at Chennai Open Challenger. The result led to a career-high ranking. In May, Harris reached the final of Busan Challenger, further improving his ranking. In August, Harris lost in the first round of 2019 US Open – Men's singles qualifying.
2020-2021: Grand Slam debut, First ATP win Harris was awarded a wildcard into the 2020 Australian Open, where he lost in straight sets to eight seed Matteo Berrettini. Harris ended 2020 with a singles rank of world No. 229.
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 singles tournament Harris played for the year.
2022: Three Challenger doubles titles Harris lost in the first round of qualifying at the 2022 Australian Open. He also lost at Wimbledon in qualifying. This was the final singles tournament Harris played in his career.
2023-2024: Maiden ATP doubles final, Australian Open mixed semifinal At the 2023 Los Cabos Open he reached his maiden ATP final with Dominik Koepfer.
At the 2024 Australian Open – Mixed doubles he reached the quarterfinals with partner Jaimee Fourlis upsetting top seeds Matthew Ebden and Storm Hunter en route. The Australian duo went one step further and reached the semifinals defeating fifth seeds Laura Siegemund and Sander Gillé.
He was the traveling coach for James Duckworth in 2024.
Personal life Harris is in a relationship with American professional tennis player Desirae Krawczyk.
Junior Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 2 (2 titles) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin2012French OpenClay Nick Kyrgios Adam Pavlásek Václav Šafránek6–4, 2–6, [10–7]Win2012WimbledonGrass Nick Kyrgios Matteo Donati Pietro Licciardi6–2, 6–4
ATP career finals
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) LegendGrand Slam tournaments (0–0)ATP Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)ATP Tour 500 Series (0–0)ATP Tour 250 Series (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLossLos Cabos Open, Mexico250 SeriesHard Dominik Koepfer Santiago González Édouard Roger-Vasselin4–6, 5–7
Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals
Singles: 9 (2–7) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (0–3)ITF Futures Tour (2–4)Titles by surfaceHard (2–7)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Thailand F2, Bangkok FuturesHard Saketh Myneni6–7(4–7), 1–6Win1–1USA F27, Mansfield FuturesHard Dennis Nevolo6–4, 7–6(7–5) Loss1–2USA F17, Oklahoma City FuturesHard Jared Donaldson3–6, 2–6Win2–2Australia F6, Toowoomba FuturesHard Jason Kubler6–4, 6–0Loss2–3Vietnam F3, Thủ Dầu Một CityFuturesHard Arjun Kadhe5–7, 3–6Loss2–4Chennai, IndiaChallengerHard Corentin Moutet3–6, 3–6Loss2–5Busan, South KoreaChallengerHard Ričardas Berankis6–7(5–7), 2–6Loss2–6Traralgon, AustraliaChallengerHard Marc Polmans5–7, 3–6Loss2-7M25 Bendigo, AustraliaWorld Tennis TourHard Li Tu3–6, 1–6
Doubles: 15 (8–7) Legend (doubles)ATP Challenger Tour (7–6)ITF Futures Tour (1–1)Titles by surfaceHard (7–6)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–1)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Great Britain F10, IlkleyFuturesGrass Andrew Whittington Lewis Burton Edward Corrie1–6, 1–6Win1–1Ningbo, ChinaChallengerHard Marc Polmans Alex Bolt Matt Reid6–0, 6–1Win2–1M25 PragueWorld Tennis TourClay Daniel Cukierman Filip Duda Peter Heller6–0, 6–3Win3–1Little Rock, USAChallengerHard Christian Harrison Robert Galloway Max Schnur6–3, 6–4Win4–1Rome, USAChallengerHard (i) Enzo Couacaud Ruben Gonzales Reese Stalder6–4, 6–2Win5–1Matsuyama, JapanChallengerHard John-Patrick Smith Toshihide Matsui Kaito Uesugi6–3, 4–6, [10–8]Loss5–2Kobe, JapanChallengerHard (i) John-Patrick Smith Shinji Hazawa Yuta Shimizu4–6, 4–6Loss5–3Canberra, AustraliaChallengerHard John-Patrick Smith André Göransson Ben McLachlan3–6, 7–5, [5–10]Win6–3Tenerife, SpainChallengerHard Christian Harrison Luke Johnson Sem Verbeek7–6(8–6), 6–7(4–7), [10–8]Loss6–4Gwangju, South KoreaChallengerHard John-Patrick Smith Evan King Reese Stalder4–6, 2–6Win7–4Tyler, United StatesChallengerHard Alex Bolt Evan King Reese Stalder6–1, 6–4Loss7–5Chicago, United StatesChallengerHard Chung Yun-seong Mikelis Libietis Skander Mansouri6–7(5–7), 3–6Win8–5Cary, United StatesChallengerHard Rinky Hijikata William Blumberg Luis David Martinez6–4, 3–6, [10–6]Loss8–6Málaga, SpainChallengerHard John-Patrick Smith Julian Cash Robert Galloway5–7, 2–6Loss8–7Kobe, JapanChallengerHard Nam Ji-sung Evan King Reese Stalder6–7(3–7), 6–2, [7–10]
Performance timeline
Singles Tournament20122013201420152016201720182019202020212022SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenQ1AQ2Q2AAAA1RQ2Q10 / 10–1French OpenAAAAAAAAQ1AA0 / 00–0WimbledonAAAAAAAQ3NHAQ10 / 00–0US OpenAAAAAAAQ1AAA0 / 00–0Win–loss0–00–00–00–00–00–00–00–00–10–00–00 / 10–1Career statisticsYear-end ranking1151598654687 – 442343161229382681$377,176
Doubles Tournament20202021202220232024SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian Open1R1R1RA1R0 / 40–4French OpenAAAA0 / 00–0WimbledonNHAAA0 / 00–0US OpenAAAA0 / 00–0Win–loss0–10–10–10–00–10 / 40–4Career statisticsYear-end ranking26069813596418
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