Ryan Harrison

Ryan Harrison
Ryan Harrison at the 2016 US Open
Nickname:	Harry
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	May 7, 1992
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	84 kg
1st professional season:	2007
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Michael Craig Russell
Prize money:	$ 4,356,138
singles
Career record:	106: 139
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	40 (July 17, 2017)
Current placement:	56
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	72:68
Career title:	4th
Highest ranking:	16 (November 20, 2017)
Current placement:	17th
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: May 21, 2018
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Ryan Harrison (born May 7, 1992 in Shreveport , Louisiana ) is an American tennis player .

life and career

Until 2008: Background and junior career

Ryan Harrison held a tennis racket for the first time at the age of two. He was initially trained by his father Pat Harrison, who had reached 725th place in the tennis world rankings in the 80s . At the age of eleven, Ryan reached the final at a tournament in his hometown of Shreveport , where he lost to his father. In 2005 the Harrison family moved to Texas so Ryan and his brother Christian could train at John Newcombe's Tennis Academy in New Braunfels . Another move to Florida followed in 2008, where Ryan has since trained at Nick Bollettieri 's tennis academy, where future world stars such as Andre Agassi , Jim Courier and Marija Sharapova had been prepared for their careers.

In 2006 Ryan Harrison first appeared in junior tournaments, and was quickly able to attract attention with tournament victories. At the Australian Open 2008 he made it to the semi-finals, and then achieved his best placement in the junior world rankings with rank 7. Although he was just 16 years old and could have played as a junior for two years, the 2008 US Open , where he was eliminated in the round of 16, was Harrison's last junior tournament.

2007–2009: ATP debut and first successes in future and challenger tournaments

Instead, he now only competed in the adult segment, where in November 2007 he was able to win matches in a future tournament for the first time . In April 2008, Ryan Harrison got a wild card for qualifying for the ATP tournament in Houston , and used it to qualify for the main draw. There he defeated Pablo Cuevas in the first round and became one of only ten players who could win an ATP match before their 16th birthday. Just a week later, Harrison and Michael Venus reached the final of a Challenger tournament for the first time in Baton Rouge . At the US Open in August 2008, he also got a wildcard for qualification, but was eliminated in the first round.

In August 2009, Ryan Harrison won his first future title in Shingle Springs , defeating Filip Krajinović, who was also only 17, in the final . In August 2009 he was eliminated again in the first round of the US Open qualification, but in doubles he and his partner Kaes Van't Hof caused a surprise when they saw Mariusz Fyrstenberg and 6th placed in the first round Marcin Matkowski kicked out of the competition. In September 2009 Harrison reached two more Future Finals, one of which he could win. Shortly afterwards he was in Sacramento for the first time in the semi-finals of a Challenger tournament.

2010: Grand Slam debut and entry into the Top 200

For the Australian Open 2010 Ryan Harrison got a wildcard, which he had previously secured in a playoff tournament. In his Grand Slam single debut, however, he lost in the first round to Janko Tipsarević . In the following months he was in the main field of several American ATP tournaments, sometimes with a wildcard, sometimes as a qualifier. His greatest success was there the first round victory over the top-100 player Taylor Dent at the Masters tournament of Indian Wells . Two weeks earlier, he and Dent had reached the semi-finals in Delray Beach , where they only narrowly had to admit defeat to the Bryan brothers. In the further course of the season Harrison failed both at the French Open and Wimbledon in qualification. At the Newport ATP tournament he got a wildcard and reached the quarterfinals after defeating the top 100 player Karol Beck . The biggest success so far for the now 18-year-old Ryan Harrison then followed at the US Open 2010 : After successfully qualifying, he met Ivan Ljubičić , who was ranked 15th, in the first round , whom he defeated in four sets. With this, according to his own statement, "the greatest victory of his career" so far, he became the first American teenager since Andy Roddick in 2001 to defeat a top 20 player in a Grand Slam tournament. In the second round match against Serhij Stachowskyj Harrison was already leading 2-1 sets, but lost the match in five sets after several match points were awarded. In September 2010 Ryan Harrison was nominated by Patrick McEnroe for the first time for the US Davis Cup team , but he remained without a game as the US were already 3-1 ahead of Colombia when it began to rain. In October 2010 Harrison reached the finals of a Challenger tournament in Tiburon for the first time, but was clearly defeated by Tobias Kamke in two sets.

2011–2012: First Challenger title, ATP doubles title and establishment in the top 100

The year 2011 began for Ryan Harrison with the successful qualification for the ATP tournament in Brisbane , where he lost in the first main round to the top seeded eventual tournament winner Robin Söderling . Also at the Australian Open , for which he had won a wildcard as in the previous year, Harrison was eliminated after a three-set defeat against Adrian Mannarino in the first round. In the next week Ryan Harrison was able to win his first challenger title in the singles at the Challenger tournament in Honolulu with a three-set win over Alex Kuznetsov , and also won the double title together with Travis Rettenmaier . Harrison achieved his next big success in March 2011 at the Masters tournament in Indian Wells , where he defeated the top 50 players Jérémy Chardy , Guillermo García-López and Milos Raonic one after the other , before being eliminated in the round of 16 against world number two Roger Federer . In May 2011, Ryan Harrison qualified as a lucky loser for the French Open for the first time , but lost in the first main round in four sets against the two-time finalist Robin Söderling, who was fifth. Harrison also moved up into the main draw as Lucky Loser a month later at Wimbledon , and then defeated the top 50 player Ivan Dodig in three sets in the first round . In the second round he met David Ferrer , who was sixth, against whom he was already leading 2-1 sets when the match had to be abandoned due to darkness. The next day Harrison did not find his way back into the game and finally lost in five sets. At the following lawn tournament in Newport in early July 2011, Ryan Harrison could not repeat his quarterfinal participation from the previous year, but instead won his first ATP title in doubles together with Matthew Ebden . Two weeks later, Harrison was able to reach the semifinals of an ATP tournament for the first time in his career in Atlanta, among other things by defeating the fourth-placed Xavier Malisse . There he lost to the eventual tournament winner Mardy Fish , who was in 1st position , but still made it into the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time. Just a week later, Harrison reached another ATP semifinal in Los Angeles by defeating Lu Yen-hsun , where he lost again to Mardy Fish. The rest of the year passed without any major highlights for Ryan Harrison: At the US Open Ryan Harrison was eliminated in the first round against Marin Čilić , only at the Masters tournament in Shanghai he was able to defeat a well-known opponent with Viktor Troicki .

In early 2012, Ryan Harrison lost at the Australian Open in the first round against Andy Murray, who later sat in fourth place . In February he reached the semi-finals at the ATP tournament in San José , where he was defeated by the eventual tournament winner Milos Raonic . After participating in the round of 16 at the Indian Wells Masters and an ATP quarter-final in Houston , Harrison failed in the first round of the French Open in June 2012 against Gilles Simon, who was 11th . After reaching the semi-finals at the following ATP lawn tournament in Eastbourne , Harrison rose to the top 50 in the world rankings for the first time.

Parts of this article seem out of date as of 2012 .
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Personal

In April 2017, Harrison married his fiancée Lauren McHale, sister of tennis player Christina McHale .

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam (1) ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP World Tour 500 ATP World Tour 250 (4) ATP Challenger Tour (7)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (2) Sand (2) Grass (1)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	19th February 2017	Memphis	Hard court (i)	Nikolos Bassilashvili	6: 1, 6: 4

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 30, 2011	Honolulu	Hard court	Alex Kuznetsov	6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 4
2.	April 28, 2013	Savannah	sand	Facundo Argüello	6: 2, 6: 3
3.	January 11, 2015	Happy Valley	Hard court	Marcos Baghdatis	7: 6 8 , 6: 4
4th	4th February 2017	Dallas	Hard court (i)	Taylor Fritz	6: 3, 6: 3

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 30, 2017	Atlanta (1)	Hard court	John Isner	6: 7 6 , 6: 7 7
2.	January 7, 2018	Brisbane	Hard court	Nick Kyrgios	4: 6, 2: 6
3.	29th July 2018	Atlanta (2)	Hard court	John Isner	7: 5, 3: 6, 4: 6

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 10, 2011	Newport	race	Matthew Ebden	Johan Brunström Adil Shamasdin	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 5]
2.	July 22, 2012	Atlanta	Hard court	Matthew Ebden	Xavier Malisse Michael Russell	6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 6]
3.	May 7, 2017	Estoril	sand	Michael Venus	David Marrero Tommy Robredo	7: 5, 6: 2
4th	June 10, 2017	French Open	sand	Michael Venus	Santiago González Donald Young	7: 6 5 , 6: 7 4 , 6: 3

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 24, 2010	Calabasas	Hard court	Travis Rettenmaier	Rik De Voest Bobby Reynolds	6: 3, 6: 3
2.	January 30, 2011	Honolulu	Hard court	Travis Rettenmaier	Robert Kendrick Alex Kuznetsov	without a fight
3.	April 24, 2016	Savannah	sand	Brian Baker	Purav Raja Divij Sharan	5: 7, 7: 6 4 , [10: 8]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	29th July 2018	Atlanta	Hard court	Rajeev Ram	Nicholas Monroe John-Patrick Smith	6: 3, 6: 7 5 , [8:10]

Web links

Commons : Ryan Harrison  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Ryan Harrison (English)
• ITF Profile of Ryan Harrison (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Ryan Harrison (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pat Harrison's ATP professional. In: atpworldtour.com. Retrieved December 31, 2016 . 
2. ^ Fifteen-Year-Old Harrison Joins Elite Company ( Memento April 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Vandeweghe, Harrison win USTA Australian Open Wild Card Playoffs. In: usta.com. May 25, 2008, accessed December 31, 2016 . 
4. ↑ US Open: 'Lucky' Rafael Nadal thankful after tough win over Denis Istomin. In: theguardian.com. September 4, 2010, accessed December 31, 2016 . 
5. ^ US beat Colombia to remain in Davis Cup World Group. In: reuters.com. September 19, 2010, accessed December 31, 2016 . 
6. ^ Harrison, Davis win Australian Open wild card playoffs. In: usta.com. December 19, 2010, accessed December 31, 2016 . 
7. ^ Karen Crouse: Harrison Returns With His Temper, Not His Game. In: straightsets.blogs.nytimes.com. June 24, 2011, accessed December 31, 2016 . 
8. ^ Wedding bells ring for Harrison. In: spox.com. April 2, 2017. Retrieved April 2, 2017 .