Inglot at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships in London, England.
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Country (sports) | Great Britain |
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Residence | London, England |
Born |
London, England |
6 March 1986
Height | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) |
Turned pro | 2004 |
Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
College | Virginia Cavaliers |
Prize money | $ 1,117,061 |
Singles | |
Career record | 0–2 (in ATP (World) Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup) |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 561 (23 August 2010) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 147–117 (in ATP (World) Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, in and Davis Cup) |
Career titles | 6 |
Highest ranking | No. 18 (12 May 2014) |
Current ranking | No. 42 (6 March 2017) |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Australian Open | QF (2014, 2015) |
French Open | 3R (2012, 2013) |
Wimbledon | 3R (2010, 2013) |
US Open | SF (2015) |
Other doubles tournaments | |
Olympic Games | 1R (2016) |
Mixed doubles | |
Career record | 8–10 |
Career titles | 0 |
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2014) |
French Open | 2R (2014) |
Wimbledon | 3R (2012) |
US Open | 2R (2016) |
Team competitions | |
Davis Cup | W (2015) |
Last updated on: 9 March 2017. |
Dominic Inglot (born 6 March 1986) is a British professional tennis player who specialises in playing doubles. He has made the final of fifteen ATP World Tour events, winning six, including the Citi Open and Swiss Indoors partnering Treat Huey, and has also made the final of eight ATP Challenger Tour events winning five of them. He is the current British No. 2 in doubles. Also known as 'Dom the Bomb' due to having one of the biggest serves in the game.
Inglot made his debut in the Great Britain Davis Cup squad for the 2014 World Group first round tie against the United States. Inglot also played in the 2015 Davis Cup first round tie against the United States, and joined the team for the Final against Belgium, Great Britain winning the Davis Cup in 2015, the nation's first success in the tournament for 79 years. The Davis Cup team was awarded the 2015 BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year Award.
Dominic Inglot was born in London to Elizabeth and Andrei Inglot, a former professional football player in Poland, and he has one younger brother called Alex. He learned to play tennis at St. Benedict's School and at the University of Virginia. As a Junior, he represented Middlesex County and also played on the international stage with England and Great Britain. In school, he also played volleyball - captaining the London Volleyball team - and still gained academic honours in the year 2001–02. Inglot speaks English and Polish.
For the 2004 film Wimbledon, he was selected as the tennis double for the actor Paul Bettany, whose character was a British tennis player who won Wimbledon with a wild-card entry.