James Kent Trotter (born 29 July 1999) is a Japanese tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 170 achieved on 21 April 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 142 achieved on 9 September 2024.
Trotter has won two singles and seven ATP Challenger doubles titles.
Professional career He won the Challenger doubles titles at the 2023 Columbus Challenger with Robert Cash, at the 2024 Cleveland Open and in Cherbourg with George Goldhoff, at the 2024 Tyler Tennis Championships and again in Columbus with Hans Hach Verdugo. At the same tournament in Tyler, Texas, he also won his first ATP Challenger singles title defeating Brandon Holt in the final.
College career
Trotter played college tennis at Ohio State, where he won the NCAA Division I tennis men's doubles championship in 2023.
Performance timeline
Singles Tournament2025SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenQ20 / 00–0French OpenQ30 / 00–0WimbledonQ20 / 00–0US OpenQ10 / 00–0Win–loss0–00 / 00–0ATP Masters 1000Indian Wells MastersQ10 / 00–0Miami OpenA0 / 00–0Monte Carlo MastersA0 / 00–0Madrid OpenA0 / 00-0Italian OpenA0 / 00–0Canadian OpenQ10 / 00–0Cincinnati MastersQ10 / 00–0Shanghai Masters1R0 / 10–1Paris MastersA0 / 00–0Win–loss0–10 / 10–1
ATP Challenger Tour finals
Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) LegendATP Challenger Tour (2–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Tyler, USAChallengerHard Brandon Holt6–2, 7–6(7–3)Loss1–1Columbus, USAChallengerHard (i) Naoki Nakagawa6–7(8–10), 7–5, 6–7(5–7)Win2–1Charlottesville, USAChallengerHard (i) Nishesh Basavareddy6–3, 6–4
Doubles: 10 (7 titles, 3 runner-ups) LegendATP Challenger Tour (7–3)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Columbus, USAChallengerHard (i) Andrew Lutschaunig Stefan Kozlov Peter Polansky5–7, 6–7(5–7)Win1–1Columbus, USAChallengerHard (i) Robert Cash Guido Andreozzi Hans Hach Verdugo6–4, 2–6, [10–7]Win2–1Cleveland, USAChallengerHard (i) George Goldhoff William Blumberg Alex Lawson6–7(0–7), 6–3, [10–8]Win3–1Cherbourg, FranceChallengerHard (i) George Goldhoff Ryan Nijboer Niklas Schell6–2, 6–3Win4–1Shenzhen, ChinaChallengerHard Yuta Shimizu Wang Aoran Zhou Yi7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–4)Win5–1Tyler, USAChallengerHard Hans Hach Verdugo Andrés Andrade Abdullah Shelbayh7–6(7–3), 6–4Loss5–2Lexington, USAChallengerHard Yuta Shimizu André Göransson Sem Verbeek4–6, 3–6Win6–2Columbus, USA (2)ChallengerHard (i) Hans Hach Verdugo Christian Harrison Ethan Quinn6–4, 6–7(6–8), [11–9]Win7–2Phan Thiết, VietnamChallengerHard Kaito Uesugi George Goldhoff Reese Stalder6–3, 5–7, [10–4]Loss7–3Miyazaki, JapanChallengerHard Yuta Shimizu Nam Ji-sung Patrik Niklas-Salminen5–7, 3–6
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