Neil Pauffley is a former British professional tennis player and coach. He plays right handed. Pauffley has won 5 ITF Pro Futures Titles (4 x $10K & 1 x $15K) including the AEGON ITF $15K Futures tournament in Tipton, West Midlands.
Career Pauffley was born in 1989 or 1990 in Berkshire, England. As a junior, he was coached at Bisham Abbey by Viktor Roubanov and former Russian professional tennis player Olga Morozova. In 2007, he began his professional tennis career by competing in the boys' singles at Wimbledon. Pauffley later competed in the 2008 Australian Open. In 2015, he trained at the David Lloyd Tennis Centre in Newbury.
As a junior, he beat future World Number 3 Milos Raonic of Canada, and played other future top 50 players David Goffin (lost), Donald Young (lost) and Dušan Lajović (won).
After turning pro in 2007, he reached his first final in a Futures tournament in Ilkley, West Yorkshire in July 2009, losing to Martin Fischer of Austria, after beating future Top 120 ranked player Riccardo Ghedin of Italy.
In June 2010, he suffered a serious knee injury that resulted in him being unable to play for over 12 months, and on his return a stress fracture of the shin and twisted ankle that further prevented him from competing in 2011.
His return to the court in March 2012, saw him reach the semi-finals of the Futures tournament at Tipton, and in September of that year he secured his first title winning the Germany F17 Futures Final with a 6–4, 6–4 win over German Stefan Seifert in Hambach on an indoor carpet court.
A month later he reached the semi-final of the British Futures at Glasgow, after beating Daniel Evans and in November secured his second title, when winning the Czech F8 Futures title in Opava, Czech Republic with a 6–4, 2–6, 6–4 win over Roman Jebavý of the Czech Republic again on an indoor carpet court.
In May 2013, he reached the final of the Portuguese F7 Futures event in Coimbra, losing to Joao Domingues, and in July 2013 he reached another final, in Felixstowe, losing to Marcus Willis.
On 12 August 2013, he reached the highest singles ranking of his career of 406 ATP, and in November 2013 he won the German Futures title at Hambach for the second year running.
In 2014, he reached the final of the British Futures in Edinburgh in April, again losing to Marcus Willis, before beating Josh Goodall to claim the British Tour Masters Trophy in Nottingham in December.
In September 2015, Pauffley appeared at the semi finals of the British Futures at Nottingham, where he secured the 15K British Futures in November at Tipton, with a 6–4, 7–6(8) win over Lloyd Glasspool.
Pauffley last competed professionally in September 2019 in the M25 Shrewsbury where he progressed to the competition's second round. He is a qualified tennis coach.
Challenger and Futures finals
Singles: 12 (5–7) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)ITF Futures Tour (5–7)Titles by surfaceHard (2–4)Clay (0–1)Grass (0–2)Carpet (3–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Great Britain F10, IlkleyFuturesGrass Martin Fischer2–6, 4–6Win1–1Germany F17, HambachFuturesCarpet (i) Stefan Seifert6–4, 6–4Win2–1Czech Republic F8, OpavaFuturesCarpet (i) Roman Jebavý6–4, 2–6, 6–4Loss2–2Portugal F7, CoimbraFuturesHard João Domingues6–7(4–7), 3–6Loss2–3Great Britain F14, FelixstoweFuturesGrass Marcus Willis2–6, 4–6Win3–3Germany F17, HambachFuturesCarpet (i) Adrian Sikora5–7, 6–2, 6–0Loss3–4Great Britain F10, EdinburghFuturesClay Marcus Willis1–6, 3–6Win4–4Great Britain F10, TiptonFuturesHard (i) Lloyd Glasspool6–4, 7–6(10–8)Loss4–5Israel F12, AshkelonFuturesHard Connor Smith1–6, 0–6Win5–5Great Britain F6, BarnstapleFuturesHard (i) Frederik Nielsen6–4, 6–4Loss5–6Egypt F22, Sharm el-SheikhFuturesHard David Pérez Sanz7–6(9–7), 4–6, 3–6Loss5–7Egypt F23, Sharm el-SheikhFuturesHard Karim-Mohamed Maamoun3–6, 4–6
Doubles: 11 (2–9) Legend (doubles)ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)ITF Futures Tour (2–9)Titles by surfaceHard (1–4)Clay (1–1)Grass (0–1)Carpet (0–3)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Germany F4, MettmannFuturesCarpet (i) Nikolai Fidirko Josh Goodall James Ward6–4, 0–6, [4–10]Loss0–2Great Britain F9, Frinton-on-SeaFuturesGrass Marcus Willis Tristan Farron-Mahon Colin O'Brien7–6(7–5), 6–7(3–7), [6–10]Loss0–3Germany F13, HambachFuturesCarpet (i) Nikolaus Moser Andreas Mies Oscar Otte5–7, 4–4 ret.Loss0–4Germany F9, EssenFuturesClay David Rice Marvin Netuschil Philipp Scholz6–1, 6–7(4–7), [6–10]Loss0–5Great Britain F8, RoehamptonFuturesHard David Rice David O'Hare Joe Salisbury2–6, 6–4, [5–10]Win1–5Macedonia F3, SkopjeFuturesClay Richard Gabb Tomislav Jotovski Predrag Rusevski6–4, 6–4Loss1–6Germany F13, HambachFuturesCarpet (i) Keelan Oakley Marek Jaloviec Michal Konečný7–5, 4–6, [6–10]Win2–6Great Britain F6, BarnstapleFuturesHard (i) Peter Bothwell Robert Carter Ryan Peniston6–4, 6–7(5–7), [10–6]Loss2–7Germany F14, OberhachingFuturesHard (i) Marc-Andrea Hüsler Johannes Harteis Daniel Masur6–4, 5–7, [5–10]Loss2–8Great Britain F1, GlasgowFuturesHard (i) Marcus Willis Matthias Haim Jakob Sude3–6, 7–6(7–5), [6–10]Loss2–9Thailand F7, NonthaburiFuturesHard Cing-Yang Meng Hiroyasu Ehara Pruchya Isaro2–6, 3–6
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