Michael Joyce

Professional tennis player On the professional tour, he won 3 Challenger events and reached the 4th round of the 1995 Wimbledon Championships defeating Marc Rosset, Jordi Burillo and Chris Wilkinson, before being defeated by Shuzo Matsuoka. He won the men's singles in the Ojai Tennis Tournament in 2004. Pat Rafter, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Jim Courier, and Michael Chang were among those Joyce beat. He was 46–67 overall, going 1–10 against top 10 players.

He was the subject of an essay by David Foster Wallace in Esquire; the essay was later republished in Wallace's collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and String Theory.

Coaching Joyce was the coach of Maria Sharapova, along with her father, Yuri Sharapov, from summer 2004 until January 2011, when he was replaced by Thomas Högstedt. During his tenure, Sharapova won three Grand Slam singles titles and reached the World No. 1 ranking.

Joyce coached American tennis player Jessica Pegula from 2012 to 2017. While with Joyce, in 2013 before suffering from an injury, Pegula reached a career high singles world ranking of 123 and a doubles world ranking of 92.

In 2017, Joyce coached former world number one Victoria Azarenka for 8 months after she returned to competition following maternity leave. However, with family issues interrupting her schedule, the pair split at the end of the year, and Joyce took up the position of coach to Johanna Konta. In October 2018, Joyce split ways with Konta and began coaching Eugenie Bouchard. In April 2019, Joyce split ways with Bouchard; two months later he started to work with Tímea Babos. In 2021, Joyce joined USTA Player Development as a women's tennis national coach.

He coached Ashlyn Krueger from 2021 to 2025.

In January 2026, it was announced that Katie Boulter had hired Joyce as her new coach.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 10 (6–4) LegendATP Challenger (3–3)ITF Futures (3–1)Finals by surfaceHard (6–4)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Doubles: 11 (4–7) LegendATP Challenger (2–6)ITF Futures (2–1)Finals by surfaceHard (4–5)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–2)

Junior Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles