Alexander Ritschard

Alexander Ritschard (born March 24, 1994) is a Swiss-American professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 99, achieved on 30 September 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 388, achieved on 4 April 2022.

Career 2013: ATP Tour debut in doubles Ritschard made his ATP Tour main-draw debut at the Suisse Open Gstaad in the doubles draw, partnering Alexander Sadecky.

2022: ATP & Major debuts & first singles win At the age of 28, he made his Grand Slam and ATP Tour debut in singles, after qualifying for the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. He drew fourth seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas who, despite his ranking, performed very poorly on grass, having lost in the first round of his two previous Wimbledon appearances. Ritschard stormed out to a 4–1 lead in the first set, on serve, looking like another possible upset but Tsitsipas rallied to win the set in a tiebreaker and the match in four sets.

He made his debut at the US Open as a qualifier. In October, he won his maiden Challenger title in Hamburg defeating Henri Laaksonen, after the fellow Swiss retired in the second set when Ritschard was 7–5, 6–5 up and had 40–30 on his service game, climbing 50 positions back to No. 166 in the singles rankings on 24 October 2022.

2023–2024: Three Challenger titles, top 100 He qualified for the main draw of the 2023 BMW Open and defeated Jan-Lennard Struff but lost in the second round to Marcos Giron.

Following a Challenger final at the 2024 Heilbronner Neckarcup in June and a title at the 2024 Salzburg Open in July, he reached a new career-high of No. 135 on 29 July 2024.

Personal life Ritschard attended the University of Virginia, graduating in 2017.

In April 2018, Ritschard started representing the United States. On 28 February 2022, he decided to once again represent Switzerland.

Performance timeline

Singles

ATP Challenger Tour finals

Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups) LegendATP Challenger Tour (4–4)Finals by surfaceHard (1–1)Clay (3–3)

ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 7 (5 titles, 2 runner-ups) LegendITF Futures/WTT (5–2)Finals by surfaceHard (1–1)Clay (4–1)