Andrew Whittington

Andrew Whittington (born 11 August 1993) is a former Australian professional tennis player.

Whittington made his first singles appearance in April 2010 at the Australian F3 where he lost in round 1 to Brendan Moore.

Throughout 2010/11, Whittington played mostly on the ITF circuits across Australia and the USA where he reached two quarter finals in singles.

In 2011, Whittington began partnering Luke Saville in doubles.

The pair won back-to-back ITF doubles titles in November.

The pair were given a wild card into the 2012 Australian Open Men's doubles.

They lost in round 1.

In March 2012, Whittington began partnering Alex Bolt; the pair won three ITF doubles titles before June.

Whittington made his first appearance in the singles main draw of an ATP Challenger Tour at Caloundra in February 2012, losing narrowly in round 1.

The remainder of 2012 was spent on the ITF Circuit across Australia and Europe and he reached two semi-finals.

In January 2013, Whittington was given a wild card into the Burnie Challenger where he reached the quarter-finals, before playing ITF tour across USA and Europe.

In April, Whittington reached his first final in Greece.

He lost to Dimitar Kuzmanov in straight sets.

He returned to Australia in September 2013 and lost in the final of the Australia F6 to Adam Feeney, before winning his first single title the following week at the F7 against Alex Bolt.

Following the win, he told Tennis Australia "I’ve never felt like that before, I still feel like I’m out there playing."

In November 2013, he won his second ITF title in Cambodia against Gavin van Peperzeel.

In doubles, Whittington played with a number of partners throughout 2013 but re-joined Alex Bolt in September and commenced a successful doubles run.

The pair won three consecutive ITF doubles titles in Australia and in October, the pair reached their first Challenger final at the Melbourne Challenger, losing to Thanasi Kokkinakis and Benjamin Mitchell.

His best performance came by reaching the quarterfinals of the 2014 Australian Open with Alex Bolt.

In May 2014, Whittington and Bolt won the China International Challenger, which was both players' first Challenger doubles title.

In January 2014, Whittington lost in the first round of qualifying for the 2014 Brisbane International and 2014 Australian Open.

Whittington and Bolt were given wild cards into the Men's doubles.

The pair defeated the number 3 seeds David Marrero and Fernando Verdasco in round two, ultimately losing at the quarter-final stage to number 8 seed Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić.

The match was played on Rod Laver Arena; the pair's first appearance on centre court.

The pair then made a series of semi-finals across Australia circuit before winning their first Challenger title in Anning in May.

This increased Whittington's double ranking to within the world's top 100.

In June, Whittington and Bolt qualified for the 2014 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles, this was the pair's first appearance at Wimbledon.

They lost in round 1 to Feliciano López and Jürgen Melzer.

In August, Whittington lost in the final of the Chinese Taipei F1 before returning to Australia playing in ITF and Challenger circuit.

By November 2014, Whittington had reached his twentieth doubles final.

Whittington ended 2014 with a singles ranking of 525 and doubles ranking of 109.

In January 2015, Whittington and Bolt made the final of the Onkaparinga Challenger, before reaching the third round of the Men's doubles.

Throughout the rest of 2015, Whittington began focussing on singles matches on the ATP Challenger tour, with limited success.

He made the world's top 200 in August 2016 following a semifinal run at the 2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships.

Whittington commenced 2016 at the Happy Valley Challenger, qualifying for and reaching the semi-final.

This was his best singles performance to date at this level.

Whittington then played the Canberra and Launceston challenger events before winning his third and fourth ITF singles title in Mornington in March.

He played in Nanjing, Anning and Bangkok challenger events before winning his fifth ITF title in Guam in May.

He made his singles grand slam debut at the 2017 Australian Open after being given a wildcard.

Whittington turned to coaching his former doubles partner and current professional Australian tennis player Alex Bolt for the 2022 summer.