Colin Fleming
Colin Fleming (born 13 August 1984) is a British retired professional tennis player who specialised in doubles.
Fleming at 2015 French Open | |||||||||
| Country (sports) | Great Britain Scotland | ||||||||
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| Residence | Linlithgow, West Lothian | ||||||||
| Born | 13 August 1984 Broxburn, Scotland | ||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||
| Turned pro | 2003 | ||||||||
| Retired | 16 January 2017 | ||||||||
| Plays | Right-handed | ||||||||
| Prize money | $1,076,823 | ||||||||
| Official website | colinflemingtennis.com | ||||||||
| Singles | |||||||||
| Career record | 1–2 (at ATP Tour level and Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup) | ||||||||
| Career titles | 0 | ||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 359 (14 September 2009) | ||||||||
| Doubles | |||||||||
| Career record | 173–153 (at ATP Tour level and Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup) | ||||||||
| Career titles | 8 | ||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 17 (9 September 2013) | ||||||||
| Grand Slam doubles results | |||||||||
| Australian Open | 3R (2012) | ||||||||
| French Open | 2R (2010, 2011, 2016) | ||||||||
| Wimbledon | QF (2011) | ||||||||
| US Open | QF (2011, 2013) | ||||||||
| Other doubles tournaments | |||||||||
| Olympic Games | 1R (2012, 2016) | ||||||||
| Mixed doubles | |||||||||
| Career record | 17–13 (57%) | ||||||||
| Career titles | 0 | ||||||||
| Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |||||||||
| Australian Open | QF (2012) | ||||||||
| French Open | 1R (2013, 2014) | ||||||||
| Wimbledon | QF (2012) | ||||||||
| US Open | QF (2012) | ||||||||
| Team competitions | |||||||||
| Davis Cup | QF (2014) | ||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 20 January 2017. | |||||||||
As part of the Davis Cup team, he won eight successive doubles matches to help Great Britain into the World Group. He also won his doubles match in the World Group quarter final against Italy. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he won the mixed doubles gold medal with Jocelyn Rae for Scotland.
He has reached nineteen ATP Tour doubles finals in his career, winning eight of them: two in 2009, 2012 and 2013 and one in 2011 and 2015. In 2011, he had his best doubles Grand Slam results, reaching the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, and then two months later equalling it at the US Open.
He has had a number of different partners, but primarily played alongside his British compatriots, most notably Ross Hutchins, Jamie and Andy Murray, Ken Skupski and Jonathan Marray. Fleming's most successful partnership has been with Ross Hutchins, however whilst Hutchins was off the tour with illness, Fleming spent most of 2013 partnering with Marray.
He retired from professional tennis in January 2017, to take up the new position of national coach for Tennis Scotland.