Mark Petchey
Mark Dave Petchey ( born August 1, 1970 in Loughton, Essex, England) is a former British tennis player.
Life
Petchey began at the age of eight years with the tennis game. At eleven, he won a junior title for the first time. He won as an adolescent several national singles and doubles titles before he became a professional tennis player in 1988. In 1991, he won his first singles title on the ATP Challenger Tour. Two years later, he won two more Challenger single item. In 1994 he reached three times the quarterfinals of an ATP tournament, where he scored a first round victory at Sun City over Michael Stich. In the same year he also his biggest success came in the singles, the semi-finals in Newport, where he was defeated in three sets David Wheaton. In doubles, he could not celebrate winning the title on the ATP Tour, along with Danny Sapsford he won the title in Nottingham. There were eight doubles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour, among others along side Jeremy Bates and Tim Henman. Its highest listing in the tennis world ranking he reached in 1994 with position 80 in the singles and in 1996 with position 104 in doubles.
His best individual result at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the third round of Wimbledon 1997. According to the second-round win over Tommy Haas, he defeated Boris Becker in three sets clear. In the doubles competition, he reached three times the second round of Wimbledon and twice the second round of the Australian Open. Mixed In 1995 he stood in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon.
Petchey played 1991-1997 ten singles and seven doubles matches for the British Davis Cup team. From its single parts he could win only one; Here it was his first ever use in the Davis Cup, where against Thomas Muster he was victorious in the match against Austria. His second game against Thomas Mayer book was canceled when the score was 6:6 and not counted, since Britain had previously stood firm as the winner.
Due to an injury Patchey 1998 retired from professional sports, and worked as a sports commentator for Euro Sport. He worked between 2003 and 2005 for the Lawn Tennis Association. Between July 2005 and April 2006 he was responsible for Andy Murray as coach. After that he worked among others for the BBC as a tennis expert.