David Rice (born 1 January 1989) is an English former

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

player. He is best known for his activity on the doubles circuit, where he usually played with

Sean Thornley Sean Thornley (born 31 May 1989) is a former British tennis player, best known for playing on the doubles circuit with David Rice. Career In 2011 Thornley and Rice qualified for the Men's Doubles at Wimbledon. They lost in the first round to J ...

Career

He qualified for the Wimbledon men's doubles for the first time in June 2011 with

. They lost in the first round to

Jamie Murray Jamie Robert Murray, (born 13 February 1986) is a Scottish professional tennis player from Scotland who specialises in doubles. He is a seven-time Grand Slam doubles champion (five in mixed doubles and two in men's doubles), a Davis Cup win ...

and

Sergiy Stakhovsky Sergiy Eduardovych Stakhovsky ( uk, Сергій Едуардович Стаховський, ; born January 6, 1986) is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player. Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and played mostly at the Challenger le ...

, 3–6, 5–7. He has played in Wimbledon 3 times. After failing to qualify in 2012, he and Thornley were awarded a wildcard for the 2013 championship, losing 4–6, 3–6, 7–6⁽⁷⁾, 6–4, 4–6 to

Marinko Matosevic Marinko Matosevic ( hr, Marinko Matošević, ; born 8 August 1985) is a retired Australian professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 39, which he achieved in February 2013. Matosevic defeated top players including ...

and Frank Moser.

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 19 (7–12)

Doubles: 59 (34–25)

Retirement

Rice played his final match against

Stefano Napolitano Stefano Napolitano (; born 11 April 1995) is an Italian professional tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 12 June 2017, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 152 and his highest doubles ranking of 182 was achieved on 3 Apr ...

in 2016, and having lost retired and became a tennis coach in London.

References

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LTA profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rice, David English male tennis players British male tennis players Living people 1989 births Sportspeople from High Wycombe People from Croxley Green Tennis people from Buckinghamshire