Daniel Cox


Daniel Mark L. Cox, is a British tennis player.
While playing tennis for Lancashire, he first came into international prominence when he reached the finals of Le Petit As, Tarbes. A right-hander who favours slow hardcourts, but seems to be comfortable on all surfaces, Cox recently chose Marco Tennis Academy, in Marbella, as a training base, favouring the warm weather training in Spain over that in the United Kingdom.

Career

2006

Daniel spent the first few months of the year attempting to qualify for various Futures and Satellite tournaments. Although he came across little success initially, he finally qualified for a Futures event in Portugal before losing in the first round to an ATP top 500 player.
He took very little time to adjust himself to the 18-and-under circuits when he finally made his debut in April. He reached the semi-finals of a Grade 5 tournament in Sutton and followed it by a finals appearance in a Grade 5 tournament in Nottingham the very next week.

2007

Cox advanced to the second round of the Australian Open Boys' Singles championship before losing to Roman Jebavý of the Czech Republic. In the Boys' Doubles competition, Daniel reached the quarter-finals with Gastão Elias of Portugal.

2011

2011 was the best year of Cox's career to date, reaching a career high singles ranking of 258 and receiving a wildcard into both the men's singles and doubles at Wimbledon. In the singles, he lost 2–6, 4–6, 4–6 to Sergiy Stakhovsky in round one. In the doubles, he partnered James Ward, losing again in round one to Mikhail Kukushkin and Michael Russell, 6–4, 4–6, 4–6.

2014

In 2014, Cox reached the world's top 250 for the first time. He entered the Australian Open qualifiers for the first time in his career. He was defeated in the first round by American Denis Kudla.
After a few good wins in Challenger tours, Cox again entered the qualifying stage at a Grand Slam for the first time; this time it was Roland Garros. Cox defied the odds in the first round defeating Israel's Number 2 Amir Weintraub 6–2, 6–1. This was his first every victory in a Grand Slam qualification round outside of Wimbledon. In the second round he faced top qualifying seed – and world number 89 – Paolo Lorenzi and lost 3–6, 6–7.
Cox was rewarded with reaching a career high by receiving a wildcard to the main draw of Wimbledon. He lost in 4 sets to former top-25 player Jérémy Chardy 2–6, 6–7, 7–6, 3–6. After his defeat, Cox went to play on some more Challenger tours reaching the semi-finals in Binghamton before losing to Sergiy Stakhovsky. At Binghamton, Cox won his first ever title at Challenger level, teaming-up with fellow Brit Daniel Smethurst to win the Doubles, defeating Stakhovsky and Marius Copil in the final 6–7, 6–2, 10–6.

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 26 (14–12)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0Norway F2, GausdalFuturesHard Sergei Krotiouk7–6, 6–3
Win2–0Great Britain F10, Frinton-on-SeaFuturesGrass Josh Goodall7–6, 6–2
Win3–0Ireland F1, DublinFuturesCarpet Andrea Falgheri6–1, 3–6, 6–3
Win4–0Great Britain F13, LondonFuturesHard Dan Evans6–1, 6–1
Win5–0Great Britain F15, WrexhamFuturesHard Joshua Milton7–6, 6–4
Win6–0Israel F4, Ramat HaSharonFuturesHard David Goffin3–6, 6–4, 6–4
Loss6–1USA F6, HarlingenFuturesHard Dayne Kelly1–6, 3–6
Loss6–2USA F5, BrownsvilleFuturesHard Peter Polansky1–6, 3–6
Loss6–3Great Britain F13, LondonFuturesHard Dan Evans2–6, 5–7
Loss6–4Qatar F1, DohaFuturesHard Marek Semjan6–3, 6–7, 6–7
Loss6–5Great Britain F9, BournemouthFuturesClay Borna Ćorić7–6, 4–6, 3–6
Win7–5Great Britain F12, ManchesterFuturesGrass Tom Farquharson6–3, 6–2
Win8–5Ireland F1, DublinFuturesCarpet Albano Olivetti6–3, 6–3
Win9–5Great Britain F15, NottinghamFuturesHard Ashley Hewitt6–4, 3–6, 6–1
Loss9–6Great Britain F16, ChiswickFuturesHard Boy Westerhof6–7, 2–6
Win10–6Great Britain F17, WrexhamFuturesHard Marcus Willis6–2, 6–3
Win11–6Great Britain F19, RoehamptonFuturesHard Josh Goodall7–6, 2–2 ret.
Win12–6Qatar F1, DohaFuturesHard Yannick Mertens6–3, 6–4
Win13–6Qatar F4, DohaFuturesHard Adrien Bossel6–4, 6–0
Loss13–7Great Britain F1, SheffieldFuturesHard Daniel Smethurst4–6, 4–6
Win14–7Great Britain F2, SunderlandFuturesHard Alexander Ward7–6, 6–3
Loss14–8Great Britain F5, ShrewsburyFuturesHard Quentin Halys4–6, 6–3, 3–6
Loss14–9Turkey F20, AntalyaFuturesHard Erik Crepaldi3–6, 4–6
Loss14–10Great Britain F7, FelixstoweFuturesGrass Dan Evans2–6, 1–6
Loss14–11Egypt F27, Sharm El SheikhFuturesHard Lloyd Harris2–6, 2–6
Loss14–12Great Britain F9, NottinghamFuturesHard Dan Evans7–6, 3–6, 1–6

Doubles: 10 (1–9)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Spain F36, MartosFuturesHard Dan Evans Kamil Čapkovič
Dmitri Sitak		4–6, 5–2 ret.
Loss0–2Great Britain F15, ChiswickFuturesHard Uladzimir Ignatik Chris Eaton
Dominic Inglot		0–6, 6–7
Loss0–3USA F24, Costa MesaFuturesHard Adam Hubble Chris Eaton
Neal Skupski		3–6, 3–6
Loss0–4Great Britain F17, CardiffFuturesHard Daniel Smethurst Oliver Golding
Sean Thornley		4–6, 4–6
Loss0–5Great Britain F18, SheffieldFuturesHard Richard Bloomfield Lewis Burton
Marcus Willis		1–6, 1–6
Loss0–62014 China International Challenger – Men's Doubles|Anning, ChinaChallengerHard Gong Maoxin Alex Bolt
Andrew Whittington		4–6, 3–6
Win1–62014 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger – Doubles|Binghamton, USChallengerHard Daniel Smethurst Marius Copil
Sergiy Stakhovsky		6–7, 6–2,
Loss1–7Great Britain F4, WirralFuturesHard David Rice Antal van der Duim
Boy Westerhof		2–6, 6–4,
Loss1–8Great Britain F9, NottinghamFuturesHard David Rice Lloyd Glasspool
Joshua Ward-Hibbert		4–6, 6–3,
Loss1–9Qatar F1, DohaFuturesHard Milos Sekulic Antoine Bellier
Benjamin Bonzi		2–6, 3–6