Chris Eaton (tennis)

Chris Eaton (tennis)
Chris Eaton
Country  United Kingdom
 England
Residence Horsley Surrey, England
Born 27 November 1987 (1987-11-27) (age 23)
Guildford, Surrey, England
Height 6 ft 2 in (188cm)[1]
Turned pro 2007
Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Career prize money $145,050
Singles
Career record 2–2 (at ATP Tour level and Grand Slam level, in and Davis Cup)
Career titles 0
Highest ranking 317 (15 June 2009)
Current ranking 424 (18 July 2011)
Grand Slam results
Wimbledon 2R (2008)
Doubles
Career record 3–5 (at ATP Tour level and Grand Slam level, in and Davis Cup)
Career titles 0
Highest ranking 147 (2 May 2011)
Current ranking 240 (18 July 2011)
Last updated on: 18 July 2011.

Christopher Philip Eaton (born 27 November 1987 in Guildford, Surrey) is an English tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of #319 in June, 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking of #365 in February, 2009 and is the current British #9. He learnt to play tennis at Reed's School.

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Juniors career

Eaton reached a career high of #97 in April, 2005 at age 17 and 4 months. In his only match against a future top pro, he lost to Donald Young at Wimbledon in 2005, in what was also his final match in junior competition. [2]

Style of play

His main weapon is his consistent serve. He hits his serve with great power and direction and has very good technique. This serve backed up with impressive volleying make him a formidable opponent to break. His ground strokes are fairly average but are always improving.

Professional career

2007

Eaton's best results in 2007 were two Futures championships in doubles in Israel and Great Britain, and a singles semifinal appearance in Israel F4 in November, where he beat #839 Amir Hadad. He finished 2007 ranked #656 in singles play.

2008

Eaton made little singles progress in the first 4 months of the year. But he had much success in doubles, making the doubles finals of 5 Futures and winning two of them.

In June, he had a breakthrough singles win in the 2nd round of qualifying at Nottingham, beating his first top-100 opponent, #90 Guillermo García López, before losing to #111 Vince Spadea in the final qualifying round. He followed that up the next week as a wild card by qualifying in singles for the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, beating #140 Mikhail Kukushkin, #206 Jan Minar, and #162 Olivier Patience, scoring 32 aces in that match. He was also given a wild card into the main doubles draw with Alexander Slabinsky.

In the 2008 Wimbledon Championships first round he beat Serbia's Boris Pasanski 6-3 7-6(8-6) 6-4.[3] He then faced Russia's Dmitry Tursunov, the number 25 seed in the second round on Court One, his first show-court appearance, but he could not continue his winning streak and Eaton lost 6-7(2), 2-6, 4-6. As a result of his performance at Wimbledon, Eaton's ranking rose to a career high of 386, which made him eligible for Challenger events.

2009

Having played little more than a few Futures at the start of the year, Eaton was thrust into play-offs, between six British tennis hopefuls, designed by John Lloyd to help pick the two other players to represent Great Britain in the Davis Cup against Ukraine. Eaton started well, defeating Alexander Slabinsky 6-4 6-4 2-6 7-6 (7-5). He then beat James Ward 6-3 6-2 6-7 (3-7) 2-6 21-19 in a gruelling match lasting six hours and 40 minutes, making it the longest match in history prior to the epic Isner-Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships. Lloyd had decided he had seen enough, and chose Eaton and Joshua Goodall as the two players to represent Britain alongside Andy Murray and Ross Hutchins. Eaton lost his first ever Davis Cup match 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to Ukrainian number 1 Sergiy Stakhovsky but managed to restore some pride to Team GB, who were on the verge of a whitewash before Eaton managed to beat Illya Marchenko 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 in the remaining dead rubber. Despite putting in one of the better performances by British players other than Andy Murray in the Davis Cup recently, Eaton Doesn't appear to be in the plans of captain John Lloyd for the forthcoming fixtures.

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