Michael Mmoh

Michael Mmoh
	Mmoh at the 2019 French Open
Country (sports)	United States
Residence	Bradenton, Florida
Born	January 10, 1998 (age 26); Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2016
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Zack Evenden
Prize money	US $1,566,785
Singles
Career record	16–30
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 82 (20 February 2023)
Current ranking	No. 82 (20 February 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	3R (2023)
French Open	1R (2020, 2022)
Wimbledon	1R (2018)
US Open	2R (2020)
Doubles
Career record	3–4
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 265 (12 April 2021)
Grand Slam doubles results
US Open	2R (2014)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
US Open	1R (2017, 2018)
	Last updated on: 6 February 2023.

Michael Mmoh (/moʊ/ MOH;^[3] born January 10, 1998) is an American tennis player. Mmoh has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 82 achieved on 20 February 2023. He has won 7 ATP Challenger titles and 4 ITF Futures tournaments, including his first at the age of 16. He won the USTA junior national championship in 2016.

Personal life

Born in Saudi Arabia, where he lived until the age of 13, Mmoh has both Irish and Nigerian ancestry. Michael's father Tony Mmoh was also a professional tennis player who represented Nigeria and reached a career-high ranking of 105. His mother was born in Ireland and is also an Australian citizen. Mmoh's parents named him after basketball superstar Michael Jordan.

Mmoh began playing tennis at age 3. He trains at the IMG Academy in Florida.^[4]

Junior career

Mmoh peaked in the Boy's Junior rankings at No. 2 after reaching the semifinals at the 2015 Junior French Open. He won the 2016 USTA 18s Boys' National Championship to earn a wild card into the main draw of the US Open.

Professional career

Early career

Mmoh has enjoyed some early success on the ITF Futures tour, winning three titles before turning 18.

2016–2017: ATP, Grand Slam and top 200 debut

In February 2016, Mmoh qualified for his first ATP-level tournament at Memphis by defeating fellow Americans Dennis Novikov and Bjorn Fratangelo. He then lost in the first round to eventual finalist Taylor Fritz, the highest ranked American teenager at the time. Following his fourth Futures title, Mmoh was awarded a wildcard into the Miami Masters, where he lost to Alexander Zverev, the top-ranked 18 year-old in the world, after dropping two tiebreaks.

In September 2016, Mmoh broke into the top 300 for the first time by reaching the final of the ATP Challenger event at Tiburon as a qualifier.

In November 2016, he reached the Top 200 and also won the 2017 Australian Open Wild Card Challenge largely by claiming his first career Challenger title at Knoxville. He would claim another Challenger title the following summer in August 2017 at Lexington.

2018: Top 100, First ATP wins & quarterfinals, Masters third round

To start off the 2018 season, Mmoh recorded his first career ATP-level match wins by defeating Federico Delbonis in the first round of the Brisbane International and world No. 33 Mischa Zverev to make the quarterfinals, where he lost to Alex de Minaur.^[5]

At the 2018 Miami Open he reached the third round as a qualifier for the first time at a Masters level defeating 12th seed Roberto Bautista Agut for his first top-15 win and the biggest of his career.^[6]

He entered the main draw at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships for the first time at this Grand Slam as a lucky loser. He reached the top 100 at World No. 97 on 1 October 2018.

2019–20: First Grand Slam win

In January 2019, Mmoh qualified for the first time via ranking in a Grand Slam main draw at the 2019 Australian Open where he lost in the first round to Radu Albot.

At the 2020 Australian Open, Mmoh recorded his first main draw victory with a straight sets win over Pablo Andújar as a wildcard. Following his Australian Open performance, Mmoh qualified for the main draw at the 2020 US Open, where he won his first round match against João Sousa in four sets, and also at the 2020 French Open, where he lost in the first round.

2021–22: ATP quarterfinal, Out of top 250

At the 2021 Australian Open he reached again the second round in a five set stunning comeback against Viktor Troicki but lost to second seed Rafael Nadal in the next round.^[7] He received a wildcard for the 2021 Miami Open.

In 2022, he won a wildcard entry into the main draw at the 2022 French Open by winning the Roland Garros wildcard challenge.^[8]

2023: Australian Open third round, fourth ATP quarterfinal, top 85

Mmoh's first tournament of the year was in Pune, where he defeated local wildcard Manas Dhamne in the first round^[9] before losing to the 6th seed, Filip Krajinović in the second round.^[10]

He then entered the 2023 Australian Open as a lucky loser after the withdrawal of David Goffin and won his first round match, defeating fellow qualifier French Laurent Lokoli, after saving a match point in the third set. He then defeated 12th seed Alexander Zverev in the second round.^[11]^[12] He became the fifth player to make it as a lucky loser to the third round; the furthest a lucky loser had made it at this Major is the fourth round (Stéphane Robert in 2014).^[13] As a result he moved up 25 positions back into the top 100 to a new career-high singles ranking of No. 83 on 30 January 2023.^[14]

In February, he lost in the first round at the Dallas Open to eventual champion Yibing Wu. The following week, he reached the round of 16 at the Delray Beach Open by defeating wildcard Aleksandar Kovacevic in three sets.^[15] Next he reached the quarterfinals after upsetting third seed Denis Shapovalov, also in three sets.^[16] As a result he reached a new career high ranking in the top 85.

Singles performance timeline

Key
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	P#	DNQ	A	Z#	PO	G	S	B	NMS	NTI	P	NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Current through the 2023 Delray Beach Open.

Tournament	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	1R	Q1	1R	2R	2R	Q1	3R	0 / 5	4–5	44%
French Open	A	A	A	Q1	A	Q1	1R	Q1	1R		0 / 2	0–2	0%
Wimbledon	A	A	A	Q1	1R	Q1	NH	A	Q2		0 / 1	0–1	0%
US Open	A	Q1	1R	Q3	1R	Q1	2R	Q1	Q1		0 / 3	1–3	25%
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–1	2–3	1–1	0–1	2–1	0 / 11	5–11	23%
ATP Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	Q1	Q1	Q1	A	NH	Q1	A		0 / 0	0–0	–
Miami Open	A	Q1	1R	1R	3R	A	NH	1R	Q1		0 / 4	2–4	33%
Canadian Open	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	NH	Q1	Q1		0 / 0	0–0	–
Cincinnati Masters	A	A	A	A	1R	A	Q1	A	A		0 / 1	0–1	0%
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0 / 5	2–5	29%
Career statistics
Tournaments	0	0	3	4	6	2	4	4	4	4	Career total: 31
Overall win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–3	0–4	6–6	1–2	2–4	1–4	1–3	5–4	0 / 31	16–30	35%
Year-end ranking	659	455	197	175	103	218	174	239	113		$1,566,785

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 17 (11–6)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (7–4)
ITF Futures Tour (4–2)

Titles by surface
Hard (11–5)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Oct 2014	USA F29, Brownsville	Futures	Hard	Dennis Novikov	7–6^(7–5), 6–1
Win	2–0	Jul 2015	USA F22, Godfrey	Futures	Hard	Jared Hiltzik	6–3, 3–6, 7–5
Win	3–0	Oct 2015	USA F30, Houston	Futures	Hard	Lucas Gómez	6–3, 6–2
Loss	3–1	Jan 2016	USA F2, Long Beach	Futures	Hard	Yannick Hanfmann	4–6, 0–6
Win	4–1	Mar 2016	USA F10, Bakersfield	Futures	Hard	Casper Ruud	6–4, 6–7^(5–7), 6–1
Loss	4–2	Oct 2016	Tiburon, USA	Challenger	Hard	Darian King	6–7^(5–7), 2–6
Win	5–2	Nov 2016	Knoxville, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Peter Polansky	7–5, 2–6, 6–1
Loss	5–3	Jul 2017	USA F23, Wichita	Futures	Hard	Christian Harrison	6–1, 2–6, 5–7
Win	6–3	Aug 2017	Lexington, USA	Challenger	Hard	John Millman	4–6, 7–6^(7–3), 6–3
Win	7–3	Sep 2018	Columbus, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Jordan Thompson	6–3, 7–6^(7–4)
Win	8–3	Sep 2018	Tiburon, USA	Challenger	Hard	Marcel Granollers	6–3, 7–5
Loss	8–4	Sep 2019	Cary, USA	Challenger	Hard	Andreas Seppi	2–6, 7–6^(7–4), 3–6
Win	9–4	Nov 2019	Knoxville, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Christopher O'Connell	6–4, 6–4
Loss	9–5	Apr 2022	Tallahassee, USA	Challenger	Clay	Wu Tung-lin	3–6, 4–6
Win	10–5	Sep 2022	Cary, USA	Challenger	Hard	Dominik Koepfer	7–5, 6–3
Win	11–5	Oct 2022	Fairfield, USA	Challenger	Hard	Gabriel Diallo	6–3, 6–2
Loss	11–6	Nov 2022	Drummondville, Canada	Challenger	Hard (i)	Vasek Pospisil	6–7^(5–7), 6–4, 4–6