Aidan McHugh

Aidan McHugh
	McHugh at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships
Full name	Aidan McHugh
Country (sports)	Great Britain
Residence	Glasgow, United Kingdom
Born	9 July 2000 (age 24); Glasgow, United Kingdom
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Coach	Toby Smith
Prize money	$159,730
Singles
Career record	0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 298 (28 February 2022)
Current ranking	No. 351 (27 July 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Wimbledon	Q2 (2022)
Doubles
Career record	1–1 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 285 (3 October 2022)
Current ranking	No. 309 (12 June 2023)
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon	2R (2021)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	2R (2021)
	Last updated on: 18 June 2023.

Aidan McHugh (born 9 July 2000) is a British professional tennis player.^[1]

He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 298 achieved on 28 February 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 285 achieved on 3 October 2022.

Career

From Bearsden, he attended St Aloysius' College, Glasgow.^[2] He became a client of Andy Murray’s 77 Sports Management firm,^[3] where he is joined by fellow tennis players Paul Jubb, Harriet Dart, Katie Swan and Jack Pinnington Jones.^[4] His usual training facility is the Scotstoun Sports Campus in Glasgow and he is on the Lawn Tennis Association’s Pro Scholarship Programme. McHugh has been described as Murray’s protégé.^[5]

He reached the semifinals of the 2018 Australian Open – Boys' singles where he defeated Ondrej Styler, Filip Jianu, Jaimee Floyd Angele and Rinky Hijikata before he lost to Tseng Chun-hsin in three sets.^[6]^[7]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he took part in the Battle Of The Brits Team Tennis at the National Tennis Centre in London, England. He helped Judy Murray to produce online exercise modules for players of all ages that also involved Andy Murray, Jamie Murray, and Colin Fleming amongst others.^[8]

He received a wildcard on to the main draw of 2021 Nottingham Trophy – Men's singles where he defeated world number 105 Mikhail Kukushkin in straight sets for his first win on the ATP Challenger Tour.

He received a wildcard for the main draw of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships men’s doubles alongside Alastair Gray, where he recorded his first Major win against Jiří Veselý and Roman Jebavý and a wildcard into the qualifying for the men’s singles.^[9]

Personal life

He is a fan of Celtic F.C.^[10]

Career finals

Singles: 14 (7–7)

Legend (singles)
ITF Futures Tour (7–7)

Titles by surface
Hard (7–7)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2018	Great Britain F6, Barnstaple	Futures	Hard	Mark Whitehouse	4–6, 6–3, 6–7^(2–7)
Win	1–1	Oct 2018	Kuwait F1, Mishref	Futures	Hard	Alec Adamson	6–2, 6–7^(3–7), 6–2
Win	2–1	Nov 2018	Kuwait F3, Mishref	Futures	Hard	Constantin Bittoun Kouzmine	6–1, 6–3
Loss	2–2	Jun 2019	M15 Heraklion	Futures	Hard	Michail Pervolarakis	1–6, 4–6
Loss	2–3	Jun 2019	M15 Singapore	Futures	Hard	Dayne Kelly	3–6, 0–6
Win	3–3	Jun 2019	M15 Singapore	Futures	Hard	Jonathan Gray	6–2, 6–2
Loss	3–4	Mar 2021	M15 Indore	Futures	Hard	Zane Khan	7–6^(10–8), 6–7^(6–8), 6–7^(4–7)
Win	4–4	Jun 2021	M25 Santo Domingo	Futures	Hard	Nicolás Kicker	7–5, 3–6, 6–3
Loss	4–5	Aug 2021	M25 Decatur	Futures	Hard	Eliot Spizzirri	2–6, 5–7
Loss	4–6	Oct 2021	M25 Rodez	Futures	Hard	Antoine Escoffier	7–5, 5–7, 4–6
Win	5–6	Oct 2022	M25 Glasgow	Futures	Hard (i)	Filip Peliwo	7–6^(7–4), 6–4
Win	6–6	Jul 2023	M25 Champaign	Futures	Hard	Cannon Kingsley	6–4, 6–3
Loss	6–7	Jul 2023	M25 Edwardsville	Futures	Hard	Quinn Vandecasteele	3–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Win	7–7	Sep 2023	M25 Madrid	Futures	Hard	Peter Heller	6–4, 7–5

Doubles: 10 (3–7)

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–1)
ITF Futures Tour (3–6)

Titles by surface
Hard (3–7)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Sep 2018	Great Britain F6, Barnstaple	Futures	Hard	James Story	Elliott Farmer Cameron Green	6–4, 6–1
Loss	1–1	Oct 2018	Israel F13, Ashkelon	Futures	Hard	Jakub Paul	Guy Den Heijer Sidane Pontjodikromo	5–7, 4–6
Win	2–1	May 2019	M15 Heraklion	Futures	Hard	Lloyd Glasspool	Michail Pervolarakis Petros Tsitsipas	7–6^(7–5), 7–6^(7–2)
Loss	2–2	Sep 2019	M15 Kiryat Shmona	Futures	Hard	Jack Draper	Samuel Beren Raheel Manji	4–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Loss	2–3	Nov 2020	M15 Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Siddhant Banthia	Aldin Šetkić Yaraslav Shyla	6–7^(2–7), 3–6
Loss	2–4	Feb 2021	M15 Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Arnaud Bovy	Nick Hardt Nicolas Moreno de Alboran	3–6, 4–6
Win	3–4	Feb 2022	M25 Glasgow	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Gijs Brouwer	Charles Broom Constantin Frantzen	4–6, 7–6^(7–1), [10–4]
Loss	3–5	Aug 2022	Lexington, USA	Challenger	Hard	Gijs Brouwer	Yuki Bhambri Saketh Myneni	6-3, 4-6, [8-10]
Loss	3–6	Mar 2023	M25 Loulé	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Jesper de Jong	Sidane Pontjodikromo Niels Visker	6–4, 2–6, [8–10]
Loss	3–7	Jun 2023	M15 Rancho Santa Fe	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Keegan Smith	Jack Anthrop Bryce Nakashima	1–6, 4–6