Luke Bambridge (born 21 January 1995) is a British former
tennis player
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. A doubles specialist, he reached a career-high
Association of Tennis Professionals
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(ATP) world No. 41
doubles ranking
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in May 2019.
His career highlights included winning three
ATP Tour
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titles, 7
ATP Challenger Tour
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titles, 20
ITF doubles titles and 1 ITF singles title.
Tennis career
2011
Great Britain won the
2011 Junior Davis Cup tournament for the first time after beating Italy in the final in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Coached by
Greg Rusedski
Gregory Rusedski (born 6 September 1973) is a British and Canadian former tennis player. He was the British No. 1 in 1997, 1999 and 2006, and reached the ATP ranking of world No. 4 for periods from 6 October 1997 to 12 October 1997 and from 25 ...
, the team of Bambridge,
Kyle Edmund
Kyle Steven Edmund (born 8 January 1995) is a South African born-British professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 14 and was the top-ranked male British tennis player from March 2018 through October 2019.
E ...
, and
Evan Hoyt
Evan Hoyt (born 16 January 1995) is a Mexican-born British tennis
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justified their top seeding in the event.
2013
Bambridge won four ITF doubles tournaments with different partners in Great Britain, Israel, and Greece.
2014
Seven more ITF doubles tournament wins by Bambridge in 2014, five with
Liam Broady
Liam Tarquin Broady (born 4 January 1994) is a tennis player and current British No. 6. In 2010, he won the Boys' Doubles at Wimbledon with Tom Farquharson, and the Boys' Doubles at the Australian Open with Joshua Ward-Hibbert, as well as reac ...
as his partner.
2015
Bambridge received a wildcard into the
2015 Wimbledon Championships
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men's doubles event, partnering
Liam Broady
Liam Tarquin Broady (born 4 January 1994) is a tennis player and current British No. 6. In 2010, he won the Boys' Doubles at Wimbledon with Tom Farquharson, and the Boys' Doubles at the Australian Open with Joshua Ward-Hibbert, as well as reac ...
where he made his
grand slam
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debut. 2015 was also the year in which Bambridge won his first singles ITF tournament at the Qatar F4 Futures.
2019
Bambridge, in partnership with
Ben McLachlan
Ben McLachlan ( ; マクラクラン 勉, ''Makurakuran Ben''; born 10 May 1992) is a Japanese professional tennis player who previously represented New Zealand.
He is a doubles specialist with a career-high ATP ranking of world No. 18, achiev ...
, reached his first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the
2019 US Open. The pairing beat ninth seeds
Nikola Mektić
Nikola Mektić (born 24 December 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2021 Wimbledon Championships in men's doubles partnering compatriot Mat ...
and
Franko Škugor
Franko Škugor (; born 20 September 1987) is a Croatian professional tennis player who mainly competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and specialized in doubles. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 17 achieved on 22 April 2019. He i ...
in the second round, before exiting against top seeds
Juan Sebastián Cabal
Juan Sebastián Cabal Valdés (; born 25 April 1986) is a Colombian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles. He reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 184 in February 2011, but has achieved most of his success i ...
and
Robert Farah in the last eight.
ATP career finals
Doubles: 9 (3 titles, 6 runners-up)
ITF Career finals
Singles: 7 (1–6)
Doubles: 56 (27–29)
Doubles performance timeline
''Current after the
2021 US Open.''
World TeamTennis
Bambridge made his
World TeamTennis
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The league's season normally takes place in the summer months. Players from the ATP and WTA take a ...
debut in 2019 with the
Orange County Breakers
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. It was announced that he will be return with the
Orange County Breakers
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during the 2020 WTT season set to begin July 12.
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1995 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Nottingham
English male tennis players
British male tennis players
Tennis people from Nottinghamshire
People educated at West Bridgford School