GB RANKING15
WORLD RANKING507
CAREER HIGH
19/09/22 237
ITF TITLES11
Last updated: 21/11/2024
FAVOURITE
SURFACE: Hard / Grass court
SHOT: Serve
COACH
Mark Taylor
AGE26
HEIGHT193 cm
PLAYSRight-handed
BACKHANDOne-handed
LTA SUPPORT NTC Pro Access
TURNED PRO2021
FAVOURITE
SURFACE:Hard / Grass court
SHOT:Serve
COACH
Mark Taylor
Get to know Alastair Gray
About
Quick-fire facts
- Place of Birth: London
- Lives: London
- Trains: JTC Academy
- Favourite tournament: Wimbledon
- Tennis idols: Roger Federer, Dan Evans, Tim Henman and Nicolas Mahut
- Nickname: Ali G
- Primary school: Shrewsbury House / Partiside
- Secondary school: JTC schooling
Tennis beginnings
Gray started playing at the age of six and Lensbury Tennis Club with his family. His first tennis coach was Anna Britain and has fond memories of playing mini red ball tournaments from a young age.
Tennis Career
Highlights
- Semi-finalist at the M25 Nussloch, narrowly losing out to Daniel Masur 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-1
- Battled through qualifying to reach the second round of the Oeiras Challenger in January
Results
| Tournament | Round |
| November | |
| Drummondville Challenger | First round |
| M25 Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures | First round |
| October | |
| Sioux Falls Challenger 75 | First round |
| September | |
| M25+H Plaisir | Quarter-final |
| Cassis Challenger 75 | First round |
| August | |
| M25 Idanha-a-Nova | Runner-up |
| M25 Aldershot | First round |
| M25 Roehampton | Second round |
| July | |
| M25 Nottingham | First round |
| June | |
| M25 Bakio | Quarter-final |
| February | |
| Lexus Nottingham Challenger | First round |
| January | |
| M25 Nussloch | Semi-final |
| M25 Loughborough | Second round |
| Oeiras Challenger | Second round |
November
Having returned to the game following a long period of time out due to injury, Gray headed to the M15 Heraklion where he finished runner-up, losing out to France's Arthur Gea 7-6(2), 6-3 in the final.
Going from strength to strength, Gray picked up his first title of 2023 at the M15 event in Madrid - where he finished a challenging year on a high. Gray eased through the opening rounds to reach the final without dropping a set where he secured the title with a 6-1, 6-7(5), 6-2 win.
October
Gray was selected as one of 10 British players to feature in our new tennis documentary series, Beyond the Baseline, presented by Lexus.
June
Gray was ruled out of the grass-court season after sustaining an ankle injury.
March
Gray then went on to compete at the M25 Trento event where he made it to the semi-finals. Here, he faced Switzerland's Jerome Kym and lost out on a place in the final in a 7-6(7), 6-2 defeat.
January
Gray made it to the semi-finals of the M25 Sheffield event before losing out to Charles Broom 7(6)-6, 6-7(6), 6-2.
January
Gray kick-started the season with a quarter-final appearance in the singles at the LTA's M25 Bath, before teaming up with Charles Broom to lift the doubles title. The British duo defeated Luke Johnson and Guy Den Ouden 6-2, 6-2 in the final.
February
February saw Gray claim back-to-back singles titles at M25 events in Shrewsbury and Glasow. In Shrewsbury he only dropped one set en route to defeating Harry Wendelken in the final, but had to come through a 6-3, 6-7(6), 7-6(4) battle with Germany's Henri Squire to lift the trophy in Glasgow.
March
After finishing runner-up to Leandro Riedi at the M25 Trimbach, Gray reached his first ATP Challenger quarter-final in Saint Beiruc - losing out to Quentin Halys.
May
Gray lost out to Riedi again in the semi-final at the M25 Nottingham at the beginning of May and progressed to the quarter-final at the same event a week later.
June
After getting a wild card into the main draw at the Rothesay Open Nottingham, Gray lost in the opening round to former Australian Open semi-finalist, Fernando Verdasco.
July
Upon his Wimbledon debut, Gray achieved one of his best wins to date after clinching a straight-sets victory over the world No.95, Chun-hsin Tseng, to reach the second round. Despite asking questions and calling for a tie-break in the second set of his second Championships clash, Gray missed out on a place in the third following his 6-3, 7-6(3), 6-3 defeat to the reigning Indian Wells Champion, and world No.13, Taylor Fritz.
August
Gray took home his third M25 title this season, and fifth overall, after defeating fellow Brit Daniel Cox 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the final of the M25 Nottingham singles draw.
October
Gray reached the quarter-finals at the Ismaning Challenger in Germany after posting wins against Slovakia’s Filip Horansky and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Nerman Fatic, but just lost out on a place in the semi-finals after losing 6-4, 7-6(3), 7-6(4) to top seed, France’s Quentin Halys.
November
Gray enjoyed a lengthy run at the M25 Sharm ElSheikh event, which saw him land a place in the finals against Poland's Kacper Zuk having only dropped one set along the way. Gray fought hard against the Pole, but eventually lost out on the title in a 4-6, 4-6 defeat.
December
Gray rounded his year off by making the quarter finals of the M25 Monastir event. There, the Brit faced Omni Kumar but unfortunately had to retire in the first set.
- U18 Junior Nationals champion
- Winning his first doubles match at Wimbledon in 2021 with Aidan McHugh
- Beating Soonwoo Kwon (world No.70) at the Eastbourne International 2021
Singles
2022
- M25 Glasgow
- M25 Shrewsbury
2021
- M25 Johannesburg
- M25 Johannesburg
Doubles
2022
- M25 Bath (with Charles Broom)
2021
- M25 Johannesburg (with Daniel Cukierman)
- M25 Bagneres-De-Bigorre (with Ryan James Storrie)
2019
- M25 Roehampton (with Ewan Moore)
