Chris Eaton (tennis)
| Country (sports) |
 Great Britain
|
|---|---|
| Residence | East Horsley Surrey, England, UK |
| Born |
27 November 1987 Guildford, Surrey, England |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) |
| Turned pro | 2007 |
| Retired | 25 June 2012 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $168,596 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 2–2 (in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draws, and in Davis Cup) |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 317 (15 June 2009) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2008) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 3–5 (ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draws, and in Davis Cup) |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 147 (2 May 2011) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | 3R (2010) |
| Team competitions | |
| Davis Cup | Euro/Africa Zone Group I 1R (2009) |
| Last updated on: 25 April 2016. | |
Christopher Philip "Chris" Eaton (born 27 November 1987) is a retired British tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 317 in June 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking of World No. 147 in May 2011.
In February 2009, Eaton played what was then, the longest tennis match in history, lasting 6 hrs 40 mins, eventually beating James Ward. This was a play-off match to decide the Davis Cup team, but it was not sanctioned by the ATP so was not an official record, and it was broken later.
He learnt to play tennis at Reed's School.
Nicknamed the "Eaton Rifle" due to his big serve.
Eaton reached a career high of No. 97 in April 2005 at age 17 and 4 months. In his only singles main draw junior grand slam match, and his final match as a junior, he lost to Donald Young at Wimbledon in 2005, 1–6, 5–7.
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 No. 839 Amir Hadad. He finished 2007 ranked No. 656 in singles play.
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, No. 90 Guillermo García López, before losing to No. 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 Wimbledon Championships, beating No. 140 Mikhail Kukushkin, No. 206 Jan Minář, and No. 162 Olivier Patience, scoring 32 aces in that match. He was also given a wild card into the main doubles draw with Alexander Slabinsky.
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