Andrew Castle

Andrew Castle
Nation:	United Kingdom
Birthday:	November 15, 1963
Size:	190 cm
Weight:	79 kg
1st professional season:	1986
Resignation:	1992
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Roger Taylor
Prize money:	$ 344,338
singles
Career record:	22:57
Highest ranking:	80 (June 13 1988)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	63:70
Career title:	3
Highest ranking:	45 (December 19 1988)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Andrew Nicholas Castle (born November 15, 1963 in Epsom , Surrey , England ) is a retired British tennis player .

education

Castle started playing tennis at the age of nine. After winning the national U12 tennis championship in 1975, he received a scholarship to the Millfield School. He then attended the Seminole Junior College in Florida , where he shared a room with Mikael Pernfors . He completed his marketing -Studies at Wichita State University in Kansas from.

Professional tennis career

From 1986 Andrew Castle became a professional tennis player. In the same year he reached the third round of the Queen's Club Championships , at Wimbledon he was eliminated in the second round in five sets against Mats Wilander .

He reached his only final on the ATP World Tour in 1988 in Seoul , but lost to Dan Goldie there . In the course of his career he was able to win three double titles. He reached his highest ranking in the tennis world rankings in 1988 with position 80 in singles and position 45 in doubles.

His best individual result in a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the third round at the US Open , where he lost to Boris Becker in four sets . In the doubles competition he reached the semifinals of the Australian Open in 1988 with Roberto Saad , he also made it to the quarter-finals of the US Open 1990 and the second round of the French Open 1987. In the same year he stood at the side of Anne Hobbs in the mixed finals Australian Open, they were subject to Zina Garrison and Sherwood Stewart .

Castle played five singles and eight doubles games for the British Davis Cup team between 1986 and 1990 . He couldn't win any of his singles, his double balance was 3-5. His greatest success with the team was taking part in the quarterfinals of the world group, which Australia won 4-1. Castle lost his individual games against Paul McNamee and Pat Cash .

At the 1988 Summer Olympics and 1992 Summer Olympics , he competed in singles and doubles for Great Britain. In doubles, he was eliminated in the first round, in 1988 at the side of Jeremy Bates against the doubles from Yugoslavia and in 1991 with Chris Wilkinson against the doubles from Argentina . In 1988 he reached the second round by beating Ivorian Clément N'Goran , where he was defeated by Anders Järryd . Four years later he failed in his first round game to Sergi Bruguera .

TV career

Following his professional tennis career, which ended in 1992, he became a sports commentator for British Sky Broadcasting . Since 2000 he has moderated the breakfast television ( Good Morning Television ) on ITV . In 2003 he switched from Sky to the BBC , where he has since commented on the tournaments of Wimbledon, the French and Australian Open and the Davis Cup alongside John McEnroe , Jimmy Connors and Boris Becker. He took part in the sixth season of Strictly Come Dancing (the British version of Let's Dance ) in 2008 , where he was eliminated in the seventh round. In 2009 he appeared in the British version of Strike the Star and defeated his challenger.

family

Andrew Castle is married and has two daughters. His maternal great-great-grandmother is the theosophist , women's rights activist and writer Annie Besant .

Tournament victories

Legend

Grand Slam

Tennis Masters Cup

ATP Masters Series

ATP International Series Gold

ATP International Series (3)

Double

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	1988	Seoul	Hard court	Roberto Saad	Gary Donnelly Jim Grabb	6: 7, 6: 4, 7: 6
2.	1988	Rye Brook	Hard court	Tom Wilkinson	Jeremy Bates Michael Mortensen	4: 6, 7: 5, 7: 6
3.	1990	Adelaide	Hard court	Nduka Odizor	Alexander Mronz Michiel Schapers	7: 6, 6: 2

Final participation

singles

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	1988	Seoul	Hard court	Dan Goldie	3: 6, 7: 6, 0: 6

Double

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	1988	Montreal	Hard court	Tim Gullikson	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	6: 7, 3: 6
2.	1991	ATP Manchester	race	Nick Brown	Goran Ivanišević Omar Camporese	4: 6, 3: 6

Web links

Commons : Andrew Castle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Andrew Castle (English)
• ITF Profile of Andrew Castle (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Andrew Castle (English)
• Andrew Castle in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Daily Mail (English)
2. ↑ Daily Mail of December 8, 2007, GMTV's Andrew Castle finds rebel with an 'indecent and lewd' cause in his family tree (English)