Andrew Richardson (tennis)

Richardson competed in the singles draw of a Grand Slam three times, all at Wimbledon and on each occasion as a wildcard. In both 1992 and 1998 he lost in the opening round, to Marc Rosset and Hicham Arazi respectively. However, in the 1997 Wimbledon Championships he reached the third round, with wins over Spanish qualifier Sergi Duran in straight sets and then another Spaniard Juan Albert Viloca, in five sets. He was eliminated by countryman Greg Rusedski in the third round.^[1]

He was more successful as a doubles player, winning five tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour. One of those, at Seoul in 1995, was with Tim Henman as his partner. The pair also reached the semi-finals of the 1996 Czech Indoor tournament, an ATP Tour event. Richardson would later be a best man at Henman's wedding.^[2]

In 1997, Richardson represented an understrength Great Britain Davis Cup team against Zimbabwe. He defeated Byron Black in a singles match, to level the tie at 1–1 but his second match, against Byron's brother Wayne, which Richardson lost, was a dead-rubber, with Zimbabwe having already secured the tie.^[3]

He is now a tennis coach and has worked with British players Ross Hutchins, Miles Kasiri, Alan Mackin and Emma Raducanu.^[4] Richardson worked with Raducanu during the 2021 US Open, in which she became the first qualifier to win a grand slam title, and the first British woman to do so since Virginia Wade's Wimbledon title in 1977.^[5]

Singles: (1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	1997	Urbana, U.S.	Hard	Cecil Mamiit	6–7, 7–6, 6–3

Doubles: (5)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
1.	1995	Seoul, South Korea	Clay	Tim Henman	Filippo Messori Vincenzo Santopadre	6–2, 6–1
2.	1995	Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia	Carpet	Mark Petchey	Patrick Baur Joost Winnink	6–7, 6–4, 6–4
3.	1996	Bristol, England	Grass	Petr Pala	Lionel Barthez Patrick Baur	6–2, 6–4
4.	1998	Lippstadt, Germany	Carpet	Myles Wakefield	Raemon Sluiter Peter Wessels	4–6, 7–6, 6–4
5.	1998	Lübeck, Germany	Carpet	Lorenzo Manta	Stephane Simian Tuomas Ketola	7–6, 6–2

• Andrew Richardson at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Andrew Richardson at the International Tennis Federation
• Andrew Richardson at the Davis Cup