LTA PLAYER GUIDE 2013

ROSS HUTCHINS 2013
CAREER:
• Ross is one of Britain’s leading doubles players. In March 2007 he made the decision to
concentrate fully on doubles (having reached his best singles ranking of 559 the previous
August) and broke into the world’s top 100 in June whilst also reaching his maiden ATP final
in Nottingham.
• 2008 was his real breakthrough season – he won one ATP title in Beijing (w/Huss) and made
two finals in Moscow and Lyon. In 2009 he reached the semi-finals of San Jose, the semifinals
of Marseille and the final of Tokyo.
• 2010 was equally as successful, with final appearances in Sydney and Memphis, as
well a title win in Montpellier. He won a silver medal in the men’s doubles at the 2010
Commonwealth Games in Delhi
• To start the 2011 season he teamed up with Colin Fleming, and went on to win three titles
including the Athens Challenger, the Aegon Trophy and St Petersburg (first ATP title). The
duo also reached the QF of both Wimbledon and the US Open.
• Ross has represented Great Britain in Davis Cup at seven ties, having won his last three (all
with Fleming) having lost the first four doubles rubbers he played.
2012-13
• Hutchins won his second ATP title (w/Fleming) at Delray Beach in February 2012 (reaching
a career-high ranking of No. 27). At the Aegon International, took a third career ATP title (w/
Fleming) in an all-British final against Delgado and Skupski.
GRAND SLAM RECORD: DOUBLES
KEY FACTS
Date of Birth: 22.02.1985
Born: Wimbledon
Plays: Right-handed
Height: 1.90m
Lives: Wimbledon
2012-13 SINGLES ACTIVITY:
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W-L 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03
Australian Open 3-4 - 3r 1r 1r 2r - - - - - -
French Open 2-3 - - - 1r 1r 3r - - - - -
Wimbledon 6-8 - 1r QF 2r 1r 2r 1r 2r 1r - -
US Open 5-5 - 3r QF 1r 1r 2r - - - - -
Trains: NTC
Coach: Louis Cayer
Career Titles (singles): 0
Career Titles (doubles): 4 ATP
Highest Ranking: 27 (March 2012)
Twitter: @RoscoHutchins
• A final in Newport was sandwiched between 1r losses at Wimbledon and the Olympics,
while a strong Asian swing in the autumn (final in KL and SF in Beijing and Shanghai)
saw Hutchins and Fleming named as the alternate and ninth best team of the year at the
season-ending Barclay’s ATP World Tour Finals.
• After complaining of chronic back pain in October, learned on December 27th after a
biopsy and pneumonia that he was suffering from Hodgkins Lymphoma and would be
off the Tour for most of 2013, undergoing six months of chemotherapy. Hopes to be back
training by the end of the year. Has kept very busy in British Tennis during his time away
from competition and heavily involved in Rally Against Cancer on June 16 to benefit Royal
Marsden Hospital.
PERSONAL:
Father, Paul, is a former British Davis Cup player and Davis Cup captain (1975-1987) and mother,
Shali… Has one brother, Blake, and two sisters, Romy and Lauren, all three play tennis… Attended
King’s College School in Wimbledon, leaving with seven GCSEs in 2001 to pursue tennis career
and French and Spanish courses… Played cricket, rugby, basketball, swimming and football while
growing up, as a golf handicap of 12 and is an avid supporter of Fulham FC… Favourite movies are
Gladiator and Remember The Titans… Ross became engaged to fiancée Lindsay Wood in early
2013.
YEAR END RANKINGS: DOUBLES
2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
28 43 51 50 44 92 153 272 1210 1698 1257 - -
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