Jordan Thompson (tennis)

Jordan Thompson

Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	Sydney, Australia
Born	(1994-04-20) 20 April 1994 Sydney, Australia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	2013
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$204,995
Singles
Career record	1–4
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 79 (28 November 2016)
Current ranking	No. 79 (28 November 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2014, 2015, 2016)
French Open	2R (2016)
Wimbledon	1R (2016)
US Open	1R (2016)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (2016)
Doubles
Career record	2–2
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 194 (18 January 2016)
Current ranking	No. 206 (1 February 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2014)
Wimbledon	2R (2016)
Last updated on: 7 November 2016.

Jordan Thompson (born 20 April 1994) is an Australian professional tennis player, reaching a career high ranking of World No. 82 on 7 November 2016.^[1] He made his grand slam debut at the 2014 Australian Open after winning the Australian Open wild card play off on 15 December 2013.

Junior career

Thompson reached as high as No. 18 in the combined world rankings in October 2012, compiling a singles win/loss record of 82–38.

Professional career

2013

In 2013, Thompson made his debut on the professional circuit in qualifying at the 2013 Apia International Sydney where he lost to world number 81 Guillermo García-López. After receiving a wildcard he won his first professional match in qualifying at the 2013 Australian Open against Nicolas Renavand 9–7 in the third set. He lost in the second round to 21st seed Ryan Sweeting. Thompson then qualified and made the second round of the 2013 Burnie International losing to third seed John Millman. For the rest of the year he played mainly in futures, where he made three finals. He won 2 titles, the Austria F5 ITF, Alice Springs F8 ITF and was runner up of Sydney F9 ITF.^[2] Thompson will make his Grand slam debut at the 2014 Australian Open after winning the wildcard play off against Benjamin Mitchell. He finished 2013 with an ATP ranking of 320.

2014

Thompson started 2014 at the 2014 Brisbane International in qualifying where he lost in the first round against Tatsuma Ito. Thompson then competed at the 2014 AAMI Classic where he replaced Lleyton Hewitt in the draw.^[3] His first match was against world number nine Richard Gasquet. He alsmost caused a huge upset when he served for the match at 5-3 in the third set. And he had two match points on Gasquet's serve in the next game. However he lost the final set in a tiebreal by seven points to four.^[4] He lost his second match to Mikhail Youzhny in straight sets. Thompson ended up finishing in seventh place after he upset world number 42 Juan Monaco. This was Thompson's first victory over a top 50 player.^[5] Thompson lost in 5 sets to world number 21 Jerzy Janowicz in the first round of the 2014 Australian Open 6-1 6-4, 4-6 2-6 1-6. On 21 January, Thompson was announced in the Australian squad of the 2014 Davis Cup as the back-up player.^[6]

In May, Thompson made the semi-final of the China International Challenger, which increased his ranking to a career high of #277. In August, Thompson made his first Challenger Final, but lost to Hyeon Chung in Bangkok. This further increased his ranking to #219. From September to November, Thompson competed in eight challenger tournaments throughout China, USA, Australia and Japan, with the second round being his best result. In December, Thompson won the Australian Open wildcard play off again, gaining him entry into the 2015 Australian Open.

2015: Top 200

Thompson earned a wild card into the 2015 Australian Open but lost in round 1 to João Sousa in straight sets. He then played in the Hong Kong Challenger and Burnie Challenger but lost in round at both. In February, Thompson made the semi final of the Launceston Challenger before playing in Challenger events in Japan and China where his performance was a round 2. Thompson did win his first Challenger Doubles title with Ben Mitchell at Shimadzu Challenger. In March, Thompson returned to Australia where he won the F4 ITF title. In May, Thompson lost in round 1 of qualifying for the 2015 French Open before reaching the semi final of the Romanian F4. In June, Thompson turned to grass where he lost in the first round of Manchester Challenger and in qualifying for 2015 Topshelf Open and Ilkley Challenger. His broke into the world's top 200 on the 24 August, with a ranking of 193. In October, Thompson made the finals of the Ho Chi Minh City and Traralgon challengers, further increasing his ranking. He ended the year with a ranking of 154.

2016: Top 100

Thompson began the year at New Caledonia, where he made the semi final. He was then given a wild card into the Sydney International, where he scored his world ATP World Tour win, when his opponent Martin Klizan retired when trailing 6-2, 4-0.^[7] In round two, Thompson played Bernard Tomic but lost 2-6, 2-6. At the 2016 Australian Open, Thompson was given a wild card, but lost to Thomaz Bellucci in round 1. In February, Thompson won his first ATP Challenger Tour title at the La Mache Challenger. ^[8]

On 1 May, Thompson won the biggest title of his career at the $100,000 2016 Kunming Open, which increased his ranking into the top 100 for the first time in his career. ^[9]

Thompson was awarded a wild card into the French Open, where he won his first main draw grand slam match against Laslo Djere. In the second round, Thompson played the 27th seed Ivo Karlovic, losing 7-6, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 10-12 in a four and a half hour match.^[10] At Wimbledon, Thompson lost to 14th seed Roberto Bautista Agut in straight sets. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Thompson lost in round 1 to Kyle Edmund. At the US Open, Thompson lost to Steve Darcis in round 1, despite leading 2 sets to love and having 2 match points. Following the match, Thompson said “I just felt like I left myself down, let other people down. It’s not good.” ^[11] In October, Thompson won his third and fourth Challenger title of the year in Vietnam and Traralgon.

Career finals

Singles: 15 (9–6)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	000000002013-07-28-000028 July 2013	Bad Waltersdorf, Austria	Clay	Patrick Ofner	1–6, 6–4, 6–0
Winner	2.	000000002013-09-29-000029 September 2013	Alice Springs, Australia	Hard	Yuichi Ito	6–4, 6–1
Runner-up	3.	000000002013-10-12-000012 October 2013	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Greg Jones	6–3, 5–7, 1–6
Runner-up	4.	000000002014-03-02-00002 March 2014	Port Pirie, Australia	Hard	Luke Saville	2–6, 1–3 retired.
Runner-up	5.	000000002014-05-25-000025 May 2014	Bol, Croatia	Clay	Maverick Banes	6–7, 6–4, 3–6
Runner-up	6.	000000002014-08-31-000031 August 2014	Bangkok Challenger, Thailand	Hard	Hyeon Chung	6–7, 4–6
Winner	7.	000000002015-03-29-000029 March 2015	Melbourne, Australia	Clay	Jose Rubin Statham	6–1, 7–5
Winner	8.	000000002015-08-09-00009 August 2015	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Chen Ti	6–2, 6-2
Winner	9.	000000002015-08-16-000016 August 2015	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Chen Ti	6-0, 3-6, 6-2
Runner-up	10.	000000002015-10-18-000018 October 2015	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	Hard	Saketh Myneni	5-7, 3-6
Runner-up	11.	000000002015-11-01-00001 November 2015	Traralgon, Australia	Hard	Matthew Ebden	5-7, 3-6
Winner	12.	000000002016-02-28-000028 February 2016	Cherbourg Challenger, France	Hard	Adam Pavlásek	4-6, 6-4, 6-1
Winner	13.	000000002016-05-01-00001 May 2016	Anning Challenger, China	Clay	Mathias Bourgue	6-3, 6-2
Winner	14.	000000002016-10-16-000016 October 2016	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	Hard	Go Soeda	5–7, 7–5, 6–1
Winner	15.	000000002016-10-30-000030 October 2016	Traralgon, Australia	Hard	Grega Žemlja	6-1, 6-2

Doubles finals: 12 (10-2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner Up	1.	000000002014-03-02-00002 March 2014	Port Pirie F2, Australia	Hard	Bradley Mousley	Maverick Banes Gavin Van Peperzeel	3–6, 3–6
Winner	1.	000000002014-04-06-00006 April 2014	Melbourne F4, Australia	Clay	Bradley Mousley	Adam Hubble Matt Reid	w/o
Winner	2.	000000002014-05-11-000011 May 2014	F8, Croatia	Clay	Matthew Barton	Tomislav Ternar Mike Urbanija	6–2, 6–3
Winner	3.	000000002014-05-18-000018 May 2014	F9, Croatia	Clay	Matthew Barton	Tomislav Draganja Dino Marcan	6–2, 6–1
Winner	4.	000000002014-05-25-000025 May 2014	F10, Croatia	Clay	Matthew Barton	Maverick Banes Gavin Van Peperzeel	2–6, 6–3, [10–3]
Winner	5.	000000002015-03-01-00001 March 2015	Shimadzu, Japan	Carpet	Benjamin Mitchell	Go Soeda Yasutaka Uchiyama	6-3, 6-2
Winner	6.	000000002015-03-29-000029 March 2015	Melbourne F4, Australia	Clay	Andrew Whittington	Steven De Waard Marc Polmans	6–2, 7–6(7–5)
Runner-up	2.	000000002015-08-09-00009 August 2015	Thailand F6 Futures, Thailand	Hard	Benjamin Mitchell	Toshihide Matsui Christopher Rungkat	6–4, 3-6, [9-11]
Winner	7.	000000002016-02-05-00005 February 2016	Launceston, Australia	Hard	Luke Saville	Dayne Kelly Matt Reid	6–1, 4–6, [13–11]
Winner	8.	000000002016-03-27-000027 March 2016	Shenzhen, China	Hard	Luke Saville	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Saketh Myneni	3–6, 6–4, [12–10]
Winner	9.	000000002016-07-31-000031 July 2016	Lexington, United States	Hard	Luke Saville	Tucker Vorster Nicolaas Scholtz	6–2, 7–5
Winner	10.	000000002016-11-05-00005 November 2016	Canberra, Australia	Hard	Luke Saville	Matt Reid John-Patrick Smith	6–2, 6-3

Singles performance timeline

References

External links

• Jordan Thompson at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Jordan Thompson at the International Tennis Federation

Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Australian male singles tennis players, as of 5 December 2016
1. Nick Kyrgios (13 ) 2. Bernard Tomic (26 ) 3. Jordan Thompson (79 ) 4. John Millman (84 ) 5. James Duckworth (103 )
6. Andrew Whittington (170 ) 7. Sam Groth (181 ) 8. Matthew Barton (197 ) 9. Marinko Matosevic (225 ) 10. Marc Polmans (226 )

Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Australian male doubles tennis players, as of 5 December 2016
1. John Peers (9 ) 2. Chris Guccione (42 ) 3. Sam Groth (49 ) 4. John-Patrick Smith (79 ) 5. Matt Reid (83 )
6. Jordan Thompson (115 1) 7. Rameez Junaid (140 ) 8. Luke Saville (141 ) 9. Bernard Tomic (145 ) 10. Jarryd Chaplin (180 7)