Miles Maclagan (born 23 September 1974) is a Zambia born British tennis coach and former professional tennis player. He formerly coached British No.1s Laura Robson and Andy Murray.
Maclagan partnered Tim Henman successfully in the Davis Cup against Thailand, a match he called the moment of his life, and helping Great Britain into the World Group.
Early life He was born in Zambia to Scottish parents but moved to Harare, Zimbabwe when he was six years old. Maclagan primarily grew up in Harare. He regularly competed against Wayne Black.
Tennis career He left Zimbabwe in 1988 to pursue tennis in the United Kingdom. He reached a highest ranking of 172 in singles and 200 in doubles. He played in three Davis Cup ties for Great Britain, making his debut against Slovakia in 1995 and coming out of retirement to partner Tim Henman to victory against Thailand at the Birmingham NIA in 2002. At Wimbledon in 1999, Maclagan managed to take a two set to love lead against Boris Becker, and had three match points on Becker's serve in the fourth set, before eventually losing in five sets.
His last match was at Wimbledon 2003 where he lost to Alex Kim in the first round.
Coaching As a coach he worked with doubles specialists such as Wayne Black and Kevin Ulyett and was part of their team as they went on to win the Australian Open Doubles title in 2005. He subsequently continued to coach the pairing of Kevin Ullyett and Paul Hanley after Wayne Black retired. At the end of 2007 he was invited to join up with fellow Scot and British No. 1 Andy Murray as part of his coaching team.
On 27 July 2010, Andy Murray and Maclagan split. But he was not out of employment for long as on 17 September he was hired by German player Philipp Kohlschreiber. Between June 2011 to July 2012, he coached former World No.8 Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis.
In June 2013, it was announced that Maclagan would start coaching Laura Robson. However this partnership ended in October 2013 and Sam Stosur chose Maclagan to replace David Taylor as her coach. Stosur ended her coaching relationship with Maclagan in June 2014, ten days before the 2014 Wimbledon. Maclagan began coaching Borna Ćorić in December 2015.
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 5 (3–2) LegendATP Challenger (1–0)ITF Futures (2–2)Finals by surfaceHard (1–1)Clay (2–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Istanbul, TurkeyChallengerHard Frederic Vitoux7–6, 5–7, 6–2Loss1–1Ghana F2, AccraFuturesClay Steven Randjelovic4–6, 4–6Loss1–2Great Britain F6, BathFuturesHard Julien Couly4–5, 4–2, 5–4, 4–5, 1–4 Win2–2Romania F3, BrasovFuturesClay Gabriel Moraru7–6(7–0), 6–3Win3–2Egypt F2, GizaFuturesClay Julien Jeanpierre6–2, 6–4
Doubles: 14 (7–7) LegendATP Challenger (1–2)ITF Futures (6–5)Finals by surfaceHard (3–4)Clay (4–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Istanbul, TurkeyChallengerHard Dinu-Mihai Pescariu Jean-Philippe Fleurian Roger Smith6–7, 3–6Win1–1Brasov, RomaniaChallengerClay Gheorghe Cosac Ionut Moldovan Dinu-Mihai Pescariu6–4, 7–6Loss1–2Ghana F1, AccraFuturesClay Nicolas Kischkewitz Fabio Beraldo Gabrio CastrichellawalkoverLoss1–3USA F11, ClearwaterFuturesHard Thierry Guardiola Chris Groer Mitch Sprengelmeyer7–6, 4–6, 5–7Win2–3Great Britain F6, NewcastleFuturesClay Ben Ellwood Damien Roberts Myles Wakefield6–2, 6–4Win3–3Great Britain F7, EdinburghFuturesClay Ben Ellwood Martin Lee Arvind Parmar6–2, 6–3Loss3–4USA F19, GrenelefeFuturesHard Cedric Kauffmann Bobby Kokavec Jocelyn Robichaud6–4, 5–7, 1–6Loss3–5India F2, BangaloreFuturesClay Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi Andy Ram Nir Welgreen6–2, 3–6, 4–6Loss3–6Wrexham, Great BritainChallengerHard Andrew Richardson Daniele Bracciali Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi4–6, 2–6Win4–6Great Britain F6, BathFuturesHard Amir Hadad Vaughan Snyman Haydn Wakefield5–4, 5–4, 5–3Win5–6Jamaica F16, Montego BayFuturesHard Cedric Kauffmann Gabriel Montilla Kyle Porter6–3, 6–3Win6–6Jamaica F17, NegrilFuturesHard Cedric Kauffmann Darko Madjarovski Michal Mertinak6–3, 6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–2)Loss6–7Jamaica F18, NegrilFuturesClay Cedric Kauffmann Eduardo Bohrer Kepler Orellana4–6, 6–0, 3–6Win7–7Spain F4, CartagenaFuturesClay Stephane Robert Salvador Navarro-Gutierrez Gabriel Trujillo-Soler7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–4)
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