Lloyd Harris (tennis)

Juniors

In November 2012, Harris won his first ITF junior singles title at the G5 in Windhoek, Namibia. In August 2014, Harris represented South Africa at the Youth Olympic Games, where he was knocked out in the second round.

As a junior, he compiled a singles win/loss record of 73–44.

Junior Grand Slam results - Singles:

Australian Open: A
French Open: Q1 (2014)
Wimbledon: Q2 (2014)
US Open: 3R (2015)

Junior Grand Slam results - Doubles:

Australian Open: 2R (2015)
French Open: A
Wimbledon: 1R (2014)
US Open: SF (2015)

2015-2017: Career Beginnings

Harris turned pro in 2015 and ended the year with a single ranking of 358. During the 2015 and 2016 seasons Harris mainly played in the ITF Futures tour. In June 2015, Harris won his first ITF Futures single title in Mozambique F2. Harris also won his first ITF Futures Doubles title in June 2015.

In 2015 Harris reached 5 ITF Futures tour single finals, winning 4. In 2016 Harris reached 8 ITF Futures tour finals, winning 6.

In 2017 Harris competed more on the ATP Challenger tour, reaching his first Challenger tour semi-finals in Kyoto, Japan. He also reached the Challenger semi-finals in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei and quarter-finals in Vancouver, Canada.

In June 2017 Harris qualified for his first ATP World Tour event in Antalya, Turkey. He lost to world number 61 Janko Tipsarevic in the first round.

In August 2017 Harris also got his first experience of a ATP Masters 1000 event, losing in the first qualifying round of the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Canada.

2018: 1st ATP Challenger Title, 1st Grand Slam Entry

Harris started the year reaching 4 ITF Futures tour finals, winning 3. Harris then went on to reached the ATP Challenger quarter-finals at the Kunming Open in China, Seoul Open Challenger in South Korea, Karshi Challenger in Uzbekistan and the Samarkand Challenger in Uzbekistan.

Harris had a successful American hard-court summer season, he won his maiden ATP Challenger title in Lexington on 5 August 2018 by defeating Stefano Napolitano 6-4, 6-3 at the Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships, USA. The week after Harris won his maiden ATP Challenger title he also reached the Nordic Naturals Challenger final in Aptos, CA, U.S.A. Harris also reached the ATP Challenger quarter-finals of Binghamton and Vancouver.

In August, Harris qualified for his first Grand Slam main-draw at a senior men's singles level, after beating JC Aragone 6-4 6-2, in the third qualifying round for the US Open. Harris defeated Roberto Quiroz of Ecuador 7-6, 6-3 in the first round of the qualifying draw, and defeated Sebastian Ofner from Austria 6-2, 6-1 in the second round. Harris lost in the main draw first round against world number 40 Gilles Simon in straight sets.

In September, Harris won his first main draw match on the ATP World Tour, when he defeated world number 38 Gael Monfils 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 in the first round of the Chengdu Open (ATP 250 event) in China. This was also his first win over a top 40 player.

Singles: 21 (15 titles-6 runner-ups)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	14 June 2015	Mozambique F2, Maputo	Hard	Jeremy Beale	6-2, 6-1
Winner	2.	28 June 2015	Zimbabwe F2, Harare	Hard	Tucker Vorster	6-1, 6-7(7−9), 6-3
Winner	3.	23 August 2015	Egypt F27, Sharm El Sheikh	Clay	Daniel Cox	6-2, 6-2
Runner-up	4.	15 November 2015	South Africa F2, Stellenbosch	Hard	Lucas Miedler	6-7(4−7), 1-6
Winner	5.	22 November 2015	South Africa F3, Stellenbosch	Hard	Lucas Miedler	6-2, 6-1
Runner-up	6.	12 June 2016	Mozambique F1, Maputo	Hard	Marc Polmans	6-4, 2-6, 5-7
Runner-up	7.	3 July 2016	Zimbabwe F2, Harare	Hard	Marc Polmans	2-6, 2-6
Winner	8.	9 Oktober 2016	Egypt F27, Sharm El Sheikh	Hard	Andrea Vavassori	6-4, 6-2
Winner	9.	16 Oktober 2016	Egypt F28, Sharm El Sheikh	Hard	Pablo Vivero Gonzalez	6-3, 6-2
Winner	10.	23 Oktober 2016	Egypt F29, Sharm El Sheikh	Hard	Pablo Vivero Gonzalez	7-6(11−9), 4-6, 6-4
Winner	11.	6 November 2016	South Africa F1, Stellenbosch	Hard	Alessandro Bega	6-4, 6-4
Winner	12.	13 November 2016	South Africa F2, Stellenbosch	Hard	Jordi Samper-Montana	6-0, 6-1
Winner	13.	20 November 2016	South Africa F3, Stellenbosch	Hard	Nicolaas Scholtz	7-5, 6-4
Runner-up	14.	30 April 2017	Italy F10, Santa Margherita Di Pula	Clay	Christian Lindell	4-6, 1-6
Runner-up	15.	25 February 2018	Egypt F6, Sharm El Sheikh	Hard	Lucas Miedler	3-6, 6-0, 2-6
Winner	16.	4 March 2018	Egypt F7, Sharm El Sheikh,	Hard	Aldin Setkic	6-4, 4-6, 6-4
Winner	17.	25 March 2018	Portugal F5, Vilamoura	Hard	Roberto Ortega-Olmedo	4-6, 6-1, 6-0
Winner	18.	1 April 2018	Portugal F6, Vilamoura	Hard	Frederico Ferreira Silva	7-6(7−2), 7-6(7−3)
Winner	19.	5 August 2018	Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships, USA	Hard	Stefano Napolitano	6-4, 6-3
Runner-up	20.	12 August 2018	Aptos Nordic Naturals Challenger, CA, USA	Hard	Thanasi Kokkinakis	2-6, 3-6
Winner	21.	7 October 2018	Stockton Challenger Stockton, CA, , USA	Hard	Marc Polmans	6-2, 6-2

Doubles: 8 (5 titles-3 runner-ups)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score in the final
Winner	1.	21 June 2015	Harare, Zimbabwe	Hard	Nicolaas Scholtz	Evan King Anderson Reed	7-5, 6-4
Winner	2.	23 August 2015	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Clay	Cameron Silverman	Milos Sekulic Libor Salaba	7-6, 6-2
Runner-up	3.	13 December 2015	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Karim-Mohamed Maamoun	David Pel Antal Van Der Duim	3-6, 2-6
Winner	4.	20 December 2015	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Karim-Mohamed Maamoun	David Pel Antal Van Der Duim	7-5, 7-6
Winner	5.	23 October 2016	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Issam Haitham Taweel	Conor Berg Mitchell Thomas Mcdaniels	6-1, 6-3
Runner-up	6.	19 March 2017	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Nicolaas Scholtz	Denys Molchanov Artem Smirnov	(W/O)
Runner-up	7.	25 March 2018	Vilamoura, Portugal	Hard	Fred Gil	Francisco Cabral Tiago Cacao	3-6, 2,6
Winner	8.	29 April 2018	Kunming Open, China	Clay	Aliaksandr Bury	Mao-Xin Gong Ze Zhang	6-3, 6,4