Dominic Inglot

Dominic Inglot (born 6 March 1986) is a British former professional tennis player and a Davis Cup champion.

A doubles specialist; he made the final of twenty seven ATP World Tour events, winning fourteen, including the Citi Open and Swiss Indoors partnering Treat Huey and Franko Škugor, and also made the final of nine ATP Challenger Tour events winning six of them.

He was a former British No. 1 in doubles.

Also known as 'Dom the Bomb' due to his menacing serve.

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.

Inglot was the no. 2 doubles player at the NCAA All-Tournament Team.

He finished second in the team VaSID All-State event.

He ended the season ranked no. 108 in the ITA singles rankings, but was ranked as high as no. 67 for the season with a singles record 16–13 with three wins over ranked players.

In the ITA doubles rankings, he ended the season ranked no. 50 with Houston Barrick, but was ranked as high as no. 40.

They had a doubles record of 27–6.

Inglot participated at the ITA Singles All-American event and NCAA Singles Championship.

Finished first in the team VaSID All-State event.

He won the ITA Mideast Regional Singles Title and the ITA National Indoor Singles Backdraw defeating three top ten players on the way.

He was also co-Champion at the UVa Fall Invitational singles.

He ended the season ranked No. 26 in the ITA singles rankings, but was ranked as high as No. 3. In doubles he was ranked at No. 50 in the ITA rankings with Houston Barrick, but was ranked as high as No. 17.

Inglot and Michael Shabaz became the first doubles team from the ACC to win the NCAA Men's Doubles Championship.

In 2009, Inglot won a silver medal at the World University Games in Belgrade partnering former professional player Max Jones.

He finished his senior season as the No. 15 singles player in the country.

Inglot spent most of the year on the Futures tour and partially towards the end of the year on the Challenger Tour.

He got into eight finals, winning six of them, his best performance being at the Charlottesville open Challenger where he partnered Rylan Rizza.

They got to the final but lost in three sets.

In 2010, Inglot qualified for his first Grand Slam tournament partnering Chris Eaton at Wimbledon.

In the first round, they won in four sets, Inglot's first ATP tour win.

In the second round, they beat the then world no. 1 team of Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić in five sets, surprising everybody and proving to be the upset of the tournament.

They were finally beaten in the third round, losing to Julien Benneteau and Michaël Llodra in four sets.

In August, Inglot and Treat Huey won the Vancouver Open, and a week later they won the Binghamton Doubles Championship for the second consecutive year.

Inglot got within sight of the doubles top 100.

In 2011, Inglot had his quietest season to date as he struggled for form and even to play matches.

At the start of the year, a three-month lay-off for an ankle injury became nine months after a knee problem was discovered, he got a taste of another side of life with a work placement in the city.

Inglot said "The injury might have been career-ending and maybe, if I didn't have the support of the LTA, I wouldn't have been able to afford all those surgeries, so I'm lucky to be in that position and I've got to make use of it."

However, in November, Inglot won a title on a wildcard at a Challenger tour event, where he partnered Treat Huey at the Charlottesville open, winning the final in three sets.

Inglot made his first ATP Tour final at the 2012 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston partnering Treat Huey in doubles, but they lost to the much more experienced duo of James Blake and Sam Querrey.

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 from 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.