Hunter Reese Explained

Hunter Reese
Residence:	Kennesaw, Georgia, United States
Birth Date:	11 January 1993
Birth Place:	Atlanta, United States
Height:	1.8m (05.9feet)
Plays:	Right Handed (Double Handed Backhand)
Careerprizemoney:	$283,148
Singlesrecord:	0–0
Singlestitles:	0
Doublesrecord:	18–27
Doublestitles:	0
Highestdoublesranking:	No. 73 (27 June 2022)
Currentdoublesranking:	No. 182 (16 September 2024)
Australianopendoublesresult:	1R (2023)
Frenchopendoublesresult:	2R (2022)
Wimbledondoublesresult:	1R (2022)
Usopendoublesresult:	3R (2021)
Usopenmixedresult:	1R (2021)
Updated:	16 September 2024

Hunter Reese (born January 11, 1993) is an American tennis player. Reese currently competes in doubles mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has won 10 Challenger titles and has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 73 achieved on 27 June 2022.

Professional career

He competed in the 2014 US Open alongside partner Peter Kobelt after receiving a wildcard into the men's doubles draw. The tandem lost 6–4, 6–1 to Michaël Llodra and Nicolas Mahut.^[1] In November 2014, he captured the Knoxville Challenger doubles title with partner Miķelis Lībietis.^[2] On November 8, 2014, Reese hit a sliding backhand around the net post during the Knoxville Challenger that was featured on ESPN's Top Ten Plays and received over 100,000 hits on YouTube.

In July 2021 he reached his first ATP final at the 2021 Los Cabos Open partnering Sem Verbeek.^[3]

At the 2021 US Open he reached the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career as a wildcard pair partnering fellow American Evan King, defeating ninth seeds Kubot/Melo in the second round^[4] and then Krajicek/Inglot.

At the 2022 ATP Houston he reached the semifinals with Pablo Cuevas where they were defeated by eventual champions Ebden/Purcell.^[5] As a result he reached a new career high in doubles of No. 87 on 25 April 2022.

He made his debut at the 2022 French Open partnering Ramkumar Ramanathan reaching the second round and at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships partnering Roman Jebavý.

In 2023 he made his debut at the Australian Open partnering Cristian Rodríguez as alternate pair thus completing the set of Major appearances.

College career

Reese graduated in May 2015 as a kinesiology major and three time All-American from the University of Tennessee.^[6] While representing the Volunteers, Reese paired with Libietis to win three major collegiate doubles championships, conquering the 2014 NCAA Doubles Championship as well as the 2013 and 2014 ITA All-American Doubles Championships. On May 26, 2014, Reese and Libietis, nicknamed "Rock and Hammer", won the 2014 NCAA Doubles Championship after defeating Peter Kobelt and Kevin Metka of Ohio State University 7–6⁽⁵⁾, 6–7⁽³⁾, 7–6⁽⁶⁾ in a final that, notably, did not contain any breaks of serve.^[7] The tandem achieved the #1 ITA collegiate doubles ranking several times during their career, including finishing the season as the top ranked pair in 2014. Although noted for doubles success, Reese also competed in singles for the Volunteers, garnering 90 career wins and peaking at #16 in the ITA collegiate singles rankings while manning either the first or second position in the lineup (following a brief debut at the third position) for the entirety of his time on Rocky Top. A four-time ITA scholar athlete, three-time All-SEC selection, and two-time University of Tennessee Male Athlete of the Year as well as "Mr. Tennessee", Reese was named Team of the Year with Libietis for the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame's 2014 induction class.^[8]

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
ATP Finals (0–0)
ATP Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
Summer Olympics (0–0)
ATP Tour 500 Series (0–0)
ATP Tour 250 Series (0–1)

Titles by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)

Titles by location
Outdoors (0–1)
Indoors (0–0)

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals

Doubles: 40 (20–20)

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (12–10)
ITF Futures Tour (8–10)

Titles by surface
Hard (9–9)
Clay (11–11)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0		Knoxville, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Miķelis Lībietis	Gastão Elias Sean Thornley	6–3, 6–4
Loss	1–1		Lithuania F1, Vilnius	Futures	Clay	Miķelis Lībietis	Laurynas Grigelis Lukas Mugevičius	5–7, 6–3, [11–13]
Win	2–1		USA F5, Weston	Futures	Clay	Junior Alexander Ore	Isak Arvidsson Kaichi Uchida	7–6^(7–4), 3–6, [10–8]
Win	3–1		Israel F4, Herzliya	Futures	Hard	Nick Chappell	Romain Barbosa Yannick Jankovits	6–4, 6–2
Win	4–1		Israel F7, Ramat Gan	Futures	Hard	Nicolas Meister	Daniel Cukierman Edan Leshem	7–5, 7–5
Loss	4–2		Israel F8, Ramat Gan	Futures	Hard	Nicolas Meister	Jarryd Chaplin Ben McLachlan	5–7, 6–7^(1–7)
Loss	4–3		Canada F7, Toronto	Futures	Clay	Jackson Withrow	Hans Hach Rhyne Williams	5–7, 4–6
Loss	4–4		USA F31, Houston	Futures	Hard	Jackson Withrow	Hans Hach Rhyne Williams	3–6, 3–6
Loss	4–5		Dominican Republic F1, Santiago de los Caballeros	Futures	Clay	Evan King	Eduardo Dischinger Bruno Sant'anna	3–6, 6–7^(4–7)
Win	5–5		USA F14, Orange Park	Futures	Clay	Evan King	Daniel Nolan Yosuke Watanuki	2–6, 7–5, [10–8]
Loss	5–6		Italy F13, Vigevano	Futures	Clay	Sebastian Bader	Franco Agamenone Andrea Collarini	4–6, 3–6
Win	6–6		Poland F1, Sopot	Futures	Clay	Miķelis Lībietis	Ricardo Hocevar Wilson Leite	6–4, 6–4
Win	7–6		Netherlands F3, Middelburg	Futures	Clay	Evan King	Michiel de Krom Sem Verbeek	6–2, 6–1
Loss	7–7		Germany F7, Trier	Futures	Clay	Scott Puodziunas	Vasile Antonescu Patrick Grigoriu	7–5, 4–6, [1–10]
Loss	7–8		Romania F8, Pitești	Futures	Clay	Scott Puodziunas	Bogdan Ionuț Apostol Dragoș Nicolae Mădăraș	6–1, 3–6, [9–11]
Loss	7–9		Netherlands F6, Rotterdam	Futures	Clay	Nick Chappell	Botic van de Zandschulp Boy Westerhof	1–6, 3–6
Win	8–9		Sweden F4, Falun	Futures	Hard (i)	Ruben Gonzales	Markus Eriksson Milos Sekulic	6–4, 7–6^(8–6)
Win	9–9		Malaysia F1, Kuching	Futures	Hard	Ruben Gonzales	Arjun Kadhe Lukas Ollert	5–7, 6–4, [10–5]
Win	10–9		Sarasota, USA	Challenger	Clay	Evan King	Christian Harrison Peter Polansky	6–1, 6–2
Loss	10–10		Lisbon, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Tomasz Bednarek	Marcelo Arévalo Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela	3–6, 6–3, [1–10]
Win	11–10		Cary, USA	Challenger	Hard	Evan King	Fabrice Martin Hugo Nys	6–4, 7–6^(8–6)
Loss	11–11		Knoxville, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Tennys Sandgren	Toshihide Matsui Frederik Nielsen	6–7^(6–8), 5–7
Loss	11–12		Indian Wells, USA	Challenger	Hard	Darian King	JC Aragone Marcos Giron	4–6, 4–6
Win	12–12		Fergana, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Evan King	Nikola Čačić Yang Tsung-hua	6–3, 5–7, [10–4]
Loss	12–13		Winnipeg, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Adil Shamasdin	Darian King Peter Polansky	6–7^(8–10), 3–6
Loss	12–14		Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei	Challenger	Hard	Evan King	Hsieh Cheng-peng Yang Tsung-hua	4–6, 6–7^(4–7)
Win	13–14		Sibiu, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Jan Zielinski	Hans Hach Verdugo Robert Galloway	6–4, 6-2
Loss	13–15		Split, Croatia	Challenger	Clay	André Göransson	Treat Huey Nathaniel Lammons	4-6, 6-7^(3-7)
Loss	13–16		Quimper, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Brandon Nakashima	Ruben Bemelmans Daniel Masur	2-6, 1-6
Loss	13–17		Cleveland, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Evan King	Robert Galloway Alex Lawson	5-7, 7-6^(7-5), [9-11]
Win	14–17		Zagreb, Croatia	Challenger	Clay	Evan King	Andrey Golubev Aleksandr Nedovyesov	6–2, 7–6^(7–4)
Win	15–17		Oeiras, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Sem Verbeek	Sadio Doumbia Fabien Reboul	4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Loss	15–18		Ostrava, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Sem Verbeek	Alexander Erler Lucas Miedler	6-7^(5-7), 5-7
Win	16–18		Poznan, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Szymon Walków	Marek Gengel Adam Pavlásek	1–6, 6–3, [10–6]
Win	17–18		Indianapolis, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Hans Hach Verdugo	Purav Raja Divij Sharan	7–6^(7–3), 3–6, [10–7]
Win	18–18		Knoxville, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Tennys Sandgren	Martin Damm Mitchell Krueger	6–7^(4–7), 7–6^(7–3), [10–5]
Loss	18–19		Prague, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Miķelis Lībietis	Dan Added Albano Olivetti	4–6, 3–6
Loss	18–20	Feb 2024	Vila Real de Santo, Portugal	bgcolor=lightblue	Futures M25	Hard	Thomas Fancutt	Joao Domingues Jaime Faria	6–7^(2–7), 6–7^(2–7)
Win	19–20	Mar 2024	Kigali, Rwanda	Challenger	Clay	Thomas Fancutt	S D Prajwal Dev David Pichler	6–1, 7–5
Win	20–20	Mar 2024	Yucatán Open	Challenger	Clay	Thomas Fancutt	Boris Kozlov Stefan Kozlov	7–5, 6–3