Jay Clarke (tennis)

Jay Clarke
	Clarke at the 2019 French Open
Full name	Jay Alexander Clarke
Country (sports)	Great Britain
Residence	Derby, United Kingdom
Born	27 July 1998 (age 25); Derby, United Kingdom
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	2016
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Yasmin Clarke
Prize money	$794,246
Singles
Career record	2–11 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 153 (22 July 2019)
Current ranking	No. 334 (20 April 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (2019, 2020, 2021)
French Open	Q2 (2018)
Wimbledon	2R (2019)
US Open	Q1 (2018, 2019, 2022)
Doubles
Career record	2–5
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 221 (16 April 2018)
Current ranking	No. 370 (12 June 2023)
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon	3R (2017)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	SF (2018)
	Last updated on: 12 June 2023.

Last updated April 21, 2024

Jay Alexander Clarke (born 27 July 1998) is a British tennis player. In 2017, on a Wimbledon wildcard, Clarke and Marcus Willis beat the defending doubles champions and second seeds, Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert, in five sets, to progress to the third round. Clarke has won four Futures titles and three Challenger titles.

Early and personal life

Clarke is from Pear Tree, Derby.^[1] He is of Jamaican-British descent. Clarke grew up in a tennis-oriented family with his two sisters and brother also playing tennis. He attributes his love of tennis to his father Earol who also coached him and his siblings. Clarke’s older sister Yasmin (former 532 WTA) is a big part of his team.

Junior career

2012

Playing in the Great Britain Under 14 boys team, with Samuel Ferguson, they won the European Winter Cup defeating Sweden in the final.^[2]^[3]

Clarke won two Tennis Europe 14U Grade 1 events to become the 14U No.1 in Europe. Consequently, Clarke gained the May AEGON Junior Player of the Month Award.^[4]

2015

Clarke was the no 1 ranked British junior, living and training in Stockholm.

Professional career

2016–2017

Clarke has risen from an ATP singles ranking of No. 1,621 in the world in June 2016 to a career high of No. 219 achieved on 4 December 2017. He trained with Andy Murray before the French Open and travelled with the Great Britain Davis Cup team for their tie against France. ^[5]

Clarke received a singles wild card for the 2017 Wimbledon qualifiers but lost in the final round. Clarke was awarded a wildcard to the doubles main draw with Marcus Willis, where they reached the third round after upsetting the defending champions and second seeds Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert in a five-setter.^[6]

2018

Clarke made his ATP main draw debut at the Queen's Club Championships where he was given a wildcard into the singles event, he lost in straight sets to the American fifth seed Sam Querrey. Clarke was awarded a wild card to the main draw of the 2018 Wimbledon Championship for his grand slam singles debut. Clarke reached the semi-finals in the mixed doubles with Harriet Dart beating the first seeds in the third round.^[7]

ATP Challengers and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 18 (10 titles, 8 runner-ups)

Legend
ATP Challenger (3–4)
ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (7–4)

Finals by surface
Hard (3–5)
Clay (7–3)
Grass (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Dec 2016	Egypt F35, Cairo	Futures	Clay	Laslo Urrutia Fuentes	6–7^(6–8), 6–3, 6–1
Win	2–0	Dec 2016	Egypt F36, Cairo	Futures	Clay	Youssef Hossam	6–4, 6–4
Win	3–0	Mar 2017	Turkey F9, Antalya	Futures	Clay	Alexis Musialek	6–2, 6–4
Loss	3–1	Sep 2017	Italy F29, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Federico Gaio	2–6, 5–7
Loss	0–1	Nov 2017	Bangalore, India	Challenger	Hard	Sumit Nagal	3–6, 6–3, 2–6
Loss	3–2	Mar 2018	Qatar F2, Doha	Futures	Hard	Benjamin Hassan	6–3, 6–7^(1–7), 4–6
Win	4–2	Mar 2018	Qatar F3, Doha	Futures	Hard	Pietro Rondoni	6–1, 7–5
Win	1–1	Jul 2018	Binghamton, United States	Challenger	Hard	Jordan Thompson	6–7^(6–8), 7–6^(7–5), 6–4
Win	2–1	Apr 2019	Anning, China	Challenger	Clay	Prajnesh Gunneswaran	6–4, 6–3
Loss	2–2	Nov 2019	Pune, India	Challenger	Hard	James Duckworth	6–4, 4–6, 4–6
Loss	2–3	Jul 2021	Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Hard	Max Purcell	6–3, 4–6, 6–7^(6–8)
Loss	2–4	Jan 2022	Forlì, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Jack Draper	3–6, 0–6
Win	3–4	May 2022	Cuernavaca, Mexico	Challenger	Hard	Adrián Menéndez Maceiras	6–1, 4–6, 7–6^(7–5)
Win	5–2	May 2023	M25 Reggio Emilia, Italy	World Tour	Clay	Julian Ocleppo	6–3, 6–4
Win	6–2	Nov 2023	M25 Antalya, Turkey	World Tour	Clay	Nerman Fatic	6–4, 7–5
Loss	6–3	Feb 2024	M25 Hammamet, Tunisia	World Tour	Clay	Kamil Majchrzak	3–6, 5–7
Win	7–3	Feb 2024	M25 Hammamet, Tunisia	World Tour	Clay	Sandro Kopp	4–6, 6–2, 6–3
Loss	7–4	Mar 2024	M15 Rovinj, Croatia	World Tour	Clay	Matej Dodig	6–7, 4–6

Doubles: 11 (8 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Legend
ATP Challenger (2–1)
ITF Futures (6–2)

Finals by surface
Hard (3–1)
Clay (5–2)
Grass (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Dec 2016	Egypt F35, Cairo	Futures	Clay	Curtis Clarke	Chandril Sood Lakshit Sood	3–6, 2–6
Loss	0–1	Apr 2018	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Kevin Krawietz	Marcelo Arévalo Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela	1–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	Feb 2023	Chennai, India	Challenger	Hard	Arjun Kadhe	Sebastian Ofner Nino Serdarušić	6–0, 6–4
Win	1–1	Oct 2023	M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Volodoymyr Uzhylovkyi	Jiri Barnat Jan Hrazdil	7–5, 7–5
Win	2–1	Nov 2023	M25 Antalya, Turkey	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Josip Simundza	Cengiz Aksu Mert Naci Türker	1–6, 7–6^(10–8), [10–8]
Win	3–1	Dec 2023	M15 Antalya, Turkey	World Tennis Tour	Clay	James MacKinlay	Sarp Ağabigün Corentin Denolly	7–6^(7–5), 7–5
Win	4–1	Dec 2023	M15 Antalya, Turkey	World Tennis Tour	Clay	James MacKinlay	Bogdan Bobrov Petr Nesterov	6–1, 6–2
Win	2–1	Jan 2024	Oeiras, Portugal	Challenger	Hard (i)	Marcus Willis	Théo Arribagé Michael Geerts	6–4, 6–7^(9–11), [10–3]
Loss	4–2	Jan 2024	M25 Loughborough, Great Britain	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Millen Hurrion	Charles Broom George Houghton	5–7, 3–6
Win	5–2	Feb 2024	M25 Hammamet, Tunisia	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Sandro Kopp	Corentin Denolly Damien Wenger	6–2, 7–5
Win	6–2	Mar 2024	M25 Badalona, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Augusto Virgili	Ryan Nijboer Alejo Sanchez Quilez	6–3, 4–6, [11–9]

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References

↑ "Jay Clarke". Derbyshire Sport County Sports Partnerships. 2014.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
↑ "European Winter Cups 14 & Under Boys". Tennis Europe. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
↑ "EUROPEAN WINTER CUPS B14". Tennis Europe. 19 February 2012. Archived from the original on 20 February 2024. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
↑ "May 2012 – Jay Clarke". LTA. May 2012. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
↑ "Jay Clarke: British tennis player says he gets 15 to 20 racist messages a month". BBC Sport. 14 June 2017. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
↑ "Marcus Willis repeating Wimbledon fairytale – alongside doubles partner Jay Clarke". The Telegraph. 8 July 2017. Archived from the original on 23 June 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
↑ "The Championships, Wimbledon 2018 – Official Site by IBM". www.wimbledon.com. Archived from the original on 16 July 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2018.

External links

Jay Clarke at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Jay Clarke at the International Tennis Federation
Jay Clarke at the Davis Cup

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[1] "Jay Clarke". Derbyshire Sport County Sports Partnerships. 2014.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

[2] "European Winter Cups 14 & Under Boys". Tennis Europe. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.

[3] "EUROPEAN WINTER CUPS B14". Tennis Europe. 19 February 2012. Archived from the original on 20 February 2024. Retrieved 21 July 2017.

[4] "May 2012 – Jay Clarke". LTA. May 2012. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.

[5] "Jay Clarke: British tennis player says he gets 15 to 20 racist messages a month". BBC Sport. 14 June 2017. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

[6] "Marcus Willis repeating Wimbledon fairytale – alongside doubles partner Jay Clarke". The Telegraph. 8 July 2017. Archived from the original on 23 June 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[7] "The Championships, Wimbledon 2018 – Official Site by IBM". www.wimbledon.com. Archived from the original on 16 July 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2018.

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