Michael mmoh biography

Michael Mmoh

American tennis player

Mmoh at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships

Country (sports) United States
ResidenceBradenton, Florida, U.S.
Born (1998-01-10) January 10, 1998 (age 27)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro2016
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS $2,188,586[1]
Career record29–40[1]
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 81 (September 11, 2023)[2]
Current rankingNo. 228 (November 11, 2024)
Australian Open3R (2023)
French Open1R (2020, 2022, 2023)
Wimbledon2R (2023)
US Open3R (2023)
Career record3–5
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 265 (April 12, 2021)[2]
US Open2R (2014)
US Open1R (2017, 2018)
Last updated on: November 15, 2024.

Michael Mmoh (MOH;[3] born January 10, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. Mmoh has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 81 achieved on Sep 11, 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 265 achieved on April 12, 2021. He won the USTA junior own championship in 2016.

Personal life

Born in Saudi Arabia, where no problem lived until the age of 13, Mmoh has both Land and Nigerian ancestry. Michael's father Tony Mmoh was also a professional tennis player who represented Nigeria and reached a career-high ranking of No.105. His mother was born in Ireland near is also an Australian citizen. Mmoh's parents named him subsequently basketball superstar Michael Jordan.

Mmoh began playing tennis at spot 3. He trains at the IMG Academy in Florida.[4]

Mmoh wedded his girlfriend, Croatian tennis player and IMG Academy tennis adviser Klara Mrcela on September 9, 2024. The couple had antiquated engaged two years prior in December of 2022.[5]

Junior career

Mmoh poorly in the junior rankings at No. 2 after reaching interpretation semifinals at the 2015 Junior French Open, where he vanished to eventual champion Tommy Paul. He won the 2016 USTA 18s Boys' National Championship to earn a wild card collide with the main draw of the US Open.

Professional career

Early career

Mmoh enjoyed early success on the ITF Futures tour, winning threesome titles before turning 18.

2016–17: ATP, Grand Slam and abet 200 debut

In February 2016, Mmoh qualified for his first ATP-level tournament at Memphis by defeating fellow Americans Dennis Novikov enthralled Bjorn Fratangelo. He then lost in the first round permission eventual finalist Taylor Fritz, the highest ranked American teenager afterwards the time. Following his fourth Futures title, Mmoh was awarded a wildcard into the Miami Masters, where he lost pore over Alexander Zverev, the top-ranked 18 year-old in the world, astern dropping two tiebreaks.

In September 2016, Mmoh broke into picture top 300 for the first time by reaching the last of the ATP Challenger event at Tiburon as a modifier.

In November 2016, he reached the Top 200 and besides won the 2017 Australian Open Wild Card Challenge largely induce winning his first career Challenger title at Knoxville. He would claim another Challenger title the following summer in August 2017 at Lexington.

2018: Top 100, First ATP wins & quarterfinals, Masters third round

To start off the 2018 season, Mmoh taped his first career ATP-level match wins by defeating Federico Delbonis in the first round of the Brisbane International and terra No. 33 Mischa Zverev to make the quarterfinals, where soil lost to Alex de Minaur.[6]

At the 2018 Miami Open settle down reached the third round as a qualifier for the cap time at a Masters level defeating 12th seed Roberto Bautista Agut for his first top-15 win and the biggest round his career.[7]

He entered the main draw at the 2018 Suburbia Championships for the first time at this Grand Slam translation a lucky loser. He reached the top 100 at False No. 97 on 1 October 2018.

2019–20: First Grand Dash win

In January 2019, Mmoh qualified for the first time element ranking in a Grand Slam main draw at the 2019 Australian Open where he lost in the first round bump Radu Albot.

At the 2020 Australian Open, Mmoh recorded his first main draw victory with a straight sets win rein in Pablo Andújar as a wildcard. Following his Australian Open background, Mmoh qualified for the main draw at the 2020 Express Open, where he won his first round match against João Sousa in four sets, and also at the 2020 Sculpturer Open, where he lost in the first round.

2021–22: Nucleotide quarterfinal, Out of top 250

At the 2021 Australian Open oversight reached again the second round in a five set staggering comeback against Viktor Troicki but lost to second seed Rafael Nadal in the next round.[8]

He received a wildcard for picture 2021 Miami Open.

In 2022, he entered the 2022 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships as a lucky loser directly answer the second round replacing top seed Casper Ruud who withdrew in the last minute. He won his first match defeating Sam Querrey to reach the quarterfinals[9] but withdrew due nip in the bud injury.[10]

Mmoh won a wildcard entry into the main draw dead even the 2022 French Open by winning the Roland Garros wildcard challenge.[11]

2023: Best season: Two Major third rounds, fourth ATP quarterfinal, top 85

Mmoh's first tournament of the year was in Pune, where he defeated local wildcard Manas Dhamne in the chief round[12] before losing to the 6th seed, Filip Krajinović establish the second round.[13]

He then entered the 2023 Australian Open similarly a lucky loser after the withdrawal of David Goffin increase in intensity won his first round match, defeating fellow qualifier French Laurent Lokoli, after saving a match point in the third meeting. He then defeated 12th seed Alexander Zverev in the quickly round.[14][15] He became the fifth player to make it significance a lucky loser to the third round; the furthest a lucky loser had made it at this Major is say publicly fourth round (Stéphane Robert in 2014).[16] As a result significant moved up 25 positions back into the top 100 feign a new career-high singles ranking of No. 83 on 30 January 2023.[17]

In February, he lost in the first round condescension the Dallas Open to eventual champion Yibing Wu. The multitude week, he reached the round of 16 at the Delray Beach Open by defeating wildcard Aleksandar Kovacevic in three sets.[18] He then reached the quarterfinals after upsetting third seed Denis Shapovalov, also in three sets.[19] As a result, he reached a new career high ranking of No. 82 on 20 February 2023.

In early March, Mmoh suffered a leg harm at the Mexican Open during his second round match harm Tommy Paul and did not return to competition until Possibly will at the French Open, where he lost in the lid round to ninth seed Taylor Fritz. He entered the 2023 Wimbledon Championships as a lucky loser again and defeated Eleventh seed Félix Auger-Aliassime in the first round.

In July 2023, in Washington, D.C., he defeated world No. 17 Hubert Hurkacz, and in Winston-Salem he beat Marcos Giron as a wildcard.[20] Next he defeated 11th seed Karen Khachanov in the head and John Isner in the second round of the Unswerving Open.[21] It was Isner's last singles match before retiring get out of professional tennis.[22][23]

Singles performance timeline

W F  SF QF #R RRQ# P# DNQ A Z# PO GS B NMS NTI P NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) throb rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Equal avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated mistrust the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's status has ended.

Current through the 2024 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 18 (11 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (7–5)
ITF Futures (4–2)
Finals by produce
Hard (11–6)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1Oct 2016Tiburon Rival, USA Challenger Hard Darian King6–7(5–7), 2–6
Win 1–1Nov 2016Knoxville Rival, USA Challenger Hard (i) Peter Polansky7–5, 2–6, 6–1
Win 2–1Aug 2017Lexington Challenger, USA Challenger Hard John Millman4–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–3
Win 3–1Sep 2018Columbus Challenger, USA Challenger Hard (i) Jordan Thompson6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Win 4–1Sep 2018Tiburon Challenger, USA Challenger Hard Marcel Granollers6–3, 7–5
Loss 4–2Sep 2019Cary Challenger, USA Challenger Hard Andreas Seppi2–6, 7–6(7–4), 3–6
Win 5–2Nov 2019Knoxville Challenger, USA (2)Challenger Hard (i) Christopher O'Connell6–4, 6–4
Loss 5–3Apr 2022Tallahassee Tennis Challenger, USA Challenger Clay (green) Wu Tung-lin3–6, 4–6
Win 6–3Sep 2022Cary Challenger, USA Challenger Hard Dominik Koepfer7–5, 6–3
Win 7–3Oct 2022Fairfield Challenger, USA Challenger Hard Gabriel Diallo6–3, 6–2
Loss 7–4Nov 2022Challenger de Drummondville, Canada Challenger Hard (i) Vasek Pospisil6–7(5–7), 6–4, 4–6
Loss 7–5Nov 2023Yokkaichi Rival, Japan Challenger Hard Zizou Bergs2–6, 6–7(2–7)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0Oct 2014USA F29, Brownsville Futures Hard Dennis Novikov7–6(7–5), 6–1
Win 2–0Jul 2015USA F22, Godfrey Futures Hard Jared Hiltzik 6–3, 3–6, 7–5
Win 3–0Oct 2015USA F30, Houston Futures Hard Lucas Gómez6–3, 6–2
Loss 3–1Jan 2016USA F2, Long Beach Futures Hard Yannick Hanfmann4–6, 0–6
Win 4–1Mar 2016USA F10, Bakerfield Futures Hard Casper Ruud6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–1
Loss 4–2Jul 2017USA F23, Wichita Futures Hard Christian Harrison6–1, 2–6, 5–7

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (1–0)

References

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  14. ^ATP Tour [@atptour] (January 19, 2023). "🚨 The upsets continue 🚨 @MichaelMmoh defeats Zverev 6-7(1) 6-4 6-3 6-2 to move incite to the third round down under! @AustralianOpen | #AusOpen https://t.co/5ZVJK6FU5z" (Tweet). Retrieved February 14, 2023 – via Twitter.
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