Lloyd Harris

Lloyd George Muirhead Harris (born 24 February 1997) is a South African professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 31 in singles by the ATP, achieved on 13 September 2021 and has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 108, achieved on 6 June 2022. Harris has won one doubles ATP tournament, seven ATP Challenger singles titles, two Challenger doubles title, 13 ITF singles titles, and four ITF doubles titles.

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.

As a junior, Harris reached a ranking of No. 38 by the International Tennis Federation, and he compiled a singles win–loss record of 73-44.

Professional career 2015 to 2017 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 singles title in Mozambique F2. Harris also won his first ITF Futures Doubles title in June 2015.

In 2015 Harris reached five ITF Futures tour single finals, winning four. In 2016, Harris reached eight ITF Futures tour finals, winning six.

In 2017, he reached Challenger tour semifinals in Kyoto, Japan and Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei and he qualified for his first ATP World Tour event in Antalya, Turkey.

2018: Grand Slam debut, First ATP match win Harris started the year reaching four ITF Futures tour finals, winning three. He had a successful American hard-court summer season, winning his first ATP Challenger title at the Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships.

In August, he qualified for his first main draw at a Grand Slam at the 2018 US Open through the qualifying rounds.

In September, Harris won his first main draw match on the ATP World Tour when he defeated Gaël Monfils in the first round of the Chengdu Open (ATP 250 event) in China.

On 7 October 2018, Harris won his second ATP Challenger title of the year by defeating Marc Polmans at the Stockton Challenger.

2019: Top 100 debut

In January, Harris qualified for his second main draw at a Grand Slam at the 2019 Australian Open.

On 4 February 2019, due to his victory at the Launceston Tennis International, Harris reached World No. 100 in the ATP rankings.

In May he reached the second round of the 2019 French Open for the first time with a win over Lukáš Rosol.

Harris also entered the main draw of the 2019 Wimbledon Championships for the first time and the 2019 US Open for the second time.

In September, he made his first ATP 250 semifinal at the Chengdu Open in China.

2021: first top 10 win, ATP 500 final, Major quarterfinal Harris started his 2021 season in February at the Murray River Open. He lost in the first round to Egor Gerasimov. Ranked 91 at the Australian Open, he reached the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time; he lost to Mackenzie McDonald.

Seeded seventh at the Singapore Open, Harris was defeated in the first round by wildcard Adrian Andreev. Getting past qualifying at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, he upset Stan Wawrinka in the first round. He lost in the second round to Márton Fucsovics.

Harris then qualified for the Dubai Tennis Championships. After beating Christopher O'Connell, he won his first match against a top 10 player by defeating world no. 3 Dominic Thiem in the first round. Harris then beat Filip Krajinović, Kei Nishikori and third seed Denis Shapovalov to reach his first ATP 500 final. He lost in the final to Aslan Karatsev.

In Washington, Harris, seeded 14th, defeated Tennys Sandgren and Rafael Nadal to reach the quarterfinals, where he lost to Nishikori.

At the US Open, Harris defeated Karen Khachanov and Ernesto Escobedo to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the second time in his career. He then defeated Denis Shapovalov for the third top 10 win of his career. In the fourth round, he defeated Reilly Opelka to reach his first Grand Slam quarterfinal. He was defeated by world no. 4 Alexander Zverev in the quarterfinals. As a result, he made his debut in the top 40.

2022: Masters 1000 fourth round, surgery, and early end of season Harris started his 2022 season at the Adelaide International 2, losing in the first round to Kwon Soon-woo. Seeded 30th at the Australian Open, he was defeated in the first round by Australian wildcard, Aleksandar Vukic, in four sets.

Harris reached his first ATP doubles final with German Tim Pütz. They lost in the final to Robin Haase and Matwé Middelkoop. Representing South Africa during the Davis Cup tie against Israel, Harris got his first singles win of the season by beating Daniel Cukierman in his first match. In the end, Israel won the tie over South Africa 3-1. In Miami, Harris upset Denis Shapovalov in the second round. He lost in the fourth round to Hubert Hurkacz. Nevertheless, this was his best result at a Masters 1000 event.

On 17 June 2022, Harris announced that he will be out for the rest of the season due to a right wrist injury that required surgery.

2023–2025: Comeback, first ATP doubles title, return to top 100 Using a protected ranking, Harris upset 17th seed Lorenzo Musetti in the first round of the Australian Open in five sets. Again using a protected ranking, Harris entered the 2023 French Open and lost to 22nd seed Alexander Zverev in straight sets. He won his first ATP title at the 2023 Mallorca Championships with Yuki Bhambri.

Also with protected ranking, Harris reached the second round at the 2023 US Open defeating Guido Pella.

Ranked No. 91, Harris qualified for the main draw at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships. After beating Alex Michelsen in a first round match, Harris lost to 14th seed Ben Shelton in a fifth set tie-breaker.

Ranked No. 224, Harris qualified for the main draw at the 2025 French Open defeating Marin Čilić in the last round of qualifying. He lost to Andrey Rublev in the first round. Using a protected ranking, Harris received entry into the main draw of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships. He defeated Zizou Bergs in the first round, but lost to Rublev in the second round.

Personal life Lloyd Harris was born in Cape Town, South Africa and began playing tennis at age 3. He speaks English and Afrikaans.

During the last tournament that his parents could afford, he qualified for two futures and made quarterfinals of one, and semi finals of the other. From this success he received enough support to play five more weeks of futures around Africa. In early 2018, he was playing in Portugal when he received the news of his father dying the day before his match. He decided that he was going to stay and play for him and ended up winning back to back weeks.

Coaching Harris was coached by Norman McCarthy as a child, and in 2012, he joined the Anthony Harris Tennis Academy. He has been coached by Anthony Harris ever since. Xavier Malisse occasionally acts as his coach while on the tour.

National representation Harris has represented South Africa at the Davis Cup where he has a win–loss record of 11-4.

Performance timeline

ATP Tour career finals

Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups) Legend (singles)Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)ATP Finals (0–0)ATP Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)ATP Tour 500 Series (0–1)ATP Tour 250 Series (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–2)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoor (0–2)Indoor (0–0)

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) Legend (doubles)Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)ATP Finals (0–0)ATP Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)ATP Tour 500 Series (0–1)ATP Tour 250 Series (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (0–0)Grass (1–0)Finals by settingOutdoor (1–0)Indoor (0–1)

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals

Singles: 29 (22 titles, 7 runner-ups) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (9–2)Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (13–5)Finals by surfaceHard (21–6)Clay (0–1)Grass (1–0)

Doubles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runner-ups) Legend (doubles)ATP Challenger Tour (2–0)Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (4–3)Finals by surfaceHard (5–3)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Wins over top 10 players He has a record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.