Daniel Cox

Daniel Mark L. Cox (born 28 September 1990 in Lincoln, England), is a British tennis player.

While playing tennis for Lincolnshire, he first came into international prominence when he reached the finals of Le Petit As, Tarbes. A right-hander who favours slow hardcourts, but seems to be comfortable on all surfaces, Cox choices to train at the Marco Tennis Academy, in Marbella, as a training base, favouring the warm weather training in Spain over that in the United Kingdom.

Career

2006

Daniel spent the first few months of the year attempting to qualify for various Futures and Satellite tournaments. Although he came across little success initially, he finally qualified for a Futures event in Portugal before losing in the first round to an ATP top 500 player.

He took very little time to adjust himself to the 18-and-under circuits when he finally made his debut in April. He reached the semi-finals of a Grade 5 tournament in Sutton and followed it by a finals appearance in a Grade 5 tournament in Nottingham the very next week.

2007

Cox advanced to the second round of the Australian Open Boys' Singles championship before losing to Roman Jebavý of the Czech Republic. In the Boys' Doubles competition, Daniel reached the quarter-finals with Gastão Elias of Portugal.

2011

2011 was the best year of Cox's career to date, reaching a career high singles ranking of 258 and receiving a wildcard into both the men's singles and doubles at Wimbledon. In the singles, he lost 2–6, 4–6, 4–6 to Sergiy Stakhovsky in round one. In the doubles, he partnered James Ward, losing again in round one to Mikhail Kukushkin and Michael Russell, 6–4, 4–6, 4–6.

2014

In 2014, Cox reached the world's top 250 for the first time. He entered the Australian Open qualifiers for the first time in his career. He was defeated in the first round by American Denis Kudla.

After a few good wins in Challenger tours, Cox again entered the qualifying stage at a Grand Slam for the first time; this time it was Roland Garros. Cox defied the odds in the first round defeating Israel's Number 2 Amir Weintraub 6–2, 6–1. This was his first every victory in a Grand Slam qualification round outside of Wimbledon. In the second round he faced top qualifying seed – and world number 89 – Paolo Lorenzi and lost 3–6, 6–7.

Cox was rewarded with reaching a career high by receiving a wildcard to the main draw of Wimbledon. He lost in 4 sets to former top-25 player Jérémy Chardy 2–6, 6–7, 7–6, 3–6. After his defeat, Cox went to play on some more Challenger tours reaching the semi-finals in Binghamton before losing to Sergiy Stakhovsky. At Binghamton, Cox won his first ever title at Challenger level, teaming-up with fellow Brit Daniel Smethurst to win the Doubles, defeating Stakhovsky and Marius Copil in the final 6–7, 6–2, 10–6.

Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 33 (16–17)

Legend (singles) ATP Challenger Tour (0–0) ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (16–17)

Titles by surface Hard (12–12) Clay (0–1) Grass (2–4) Carpet (2–0)

Result	W–L	Template:NsDateTemplate:Ns	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Template:Dts	Norway F2, Gausdal	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Sergei Krotiouk	7–6(7–1), 6–3
Win	2–0	Template:Dts	Great Britain F10, Frinton-on-Sea	Futures	Grass	Template:Flagicon Josh Goodall	7–6(7–5), 6–2
Win	3–0	Template:Dts	Ireland F1, Dublin	Futures	Carpet	Template:Flagicon Andrea Falgheri	6–1, 3–6, 6–3
Win	4–0	Template:Dts	Great Britain F13, London	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Dan Evans	6–1, 6–1
Win	5–0	Template:Dts	Great Britain F15, Wrexham	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Joshua Milton	7–6(7–1), 6–4
Win	6–0	Template:Dts	Israel F4, Ramat HaSharon	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon David Goffin	3–6, 6–4, 6–4
Loss	6–1	Template:Dts	USA F6, Harlingen	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Dayne Kelly	1–6, 3–6
Loss	6–2	Template:Dts	USA F5, Brownsville	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Peter Polansky	1–6, 3–6
Loss	6–3	Template:Dts	Great Britain F13, London	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Dan Evans	2–6, 5–7
Loss	6–4	Template:Dts	Qatar F1, Doha	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Marek Semjan	6–3, 6–7(4–7), 6–7(6–8)
Loss	6–5	Template:Dts	Great Britain F9, Bournemouth	Futures	Clay	Template:Flagicon Borna Ćorić	7–6(7–4), 4–6, 3–6
Win	7–5	Template:Dts	Great Britain F12, Manchester	Futures	Grass	Template:Flagicon Tom Farquharson	6–3, 6–2
Win	8–5	Template:Dts	Ireland F1, Dublin	Futures	Carpet	Template:Flagicon Albano Olivetti	6–3, 6–3
Win	9–5	Template:Dts	Great Britain F15, Nottingham	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Ashley Hewitt	6–4, 3–6, 6–1
Loss	9–6	Template:Dts	Great Britain F16, Chiswick	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Boy Westerhof	6–7(6–8), 2–6
Win	10–6	Template:Dts	Great Britain F17, Wrexham	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Marcus Willis	6–2, 6–3
Win	11–6	Template:Dts	Great Britain F19, Roehampton	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Josh Goodall	7–6(10–8), 2–2 ret.
Win	12–6	Template:Dts	Qatar F1, Doha	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Yannick Mertens	6–3, 6–4
Win	13–6	Template:Dts	Qatar F4, Doha	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Adrien Bossel	6–4, 6–0
Loss	13–7	Template:Dts	Great Britain F1, Sheffield	Futures	Hard (i)	Template:Flagicon Daniel Smethurst	4–6, 4–6
Win	14–7	Template:Dts	Great Britain F2, Sunderland	Futures	Hard (i)	Template:Flagicon Alexander Ward	7–6(10–8), 6–3
Loss	14–8	Template:Dts	Great Britain F5, Shrewsbury	Futures	Hard (i)	Template:Flagicon Quentin Halys	4–6, 6–3, 3–6
Loss	14–9	Template:Dts	Turkey F20, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Erik Crepaldi	3–6, 4–6
Loss	14–10	Template:Dts	Great Britain F7, Felixstowe	Futures	Grass	Template:Flagicon Dan Evans	2–6, 1–6
Loss	14–11	Template:Dts	Egypt F27, Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Lloyd Harris	2–6, 2–6
Loss	14–12	Template:Dts	Great Britain F9, Nottingham	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Dan Evans	7–6(7–4), 3–6, 1–6
Win	15–12	Template:Dts	M15 Almada, Portugal	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Template:Flagicon Fábio Coelho	6–2, 5–7, 6–2
Win	16–12	Template:Dts	M25 Bath, Great Britain	World Tennis Tour	Hard (i)	Template:Flagicon Charles Broom	6–4, 7-6(7-5)
Loss	16–13	Template:Dts	M15 Torelló, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Template:Flagicon Imanol Lopez Morillo	4–6, 4–6
Loss	16–14	Template:Dts	M25 Nottingham, Great Britain	World Tennis Tour	Grass	Template:Flagicon Arthur Fery	5–7, 6–2, 5–7
Loss	16–15	Template:Dts	M25 Nottingham, Great Britain	World Tennis Tour	Grass	Template:Flagicon Alastair Gray	6–3, 4–6, 5–7
Loss	16–16	Template:Dts	M25 Nottingham, Great Britain	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Template:Flagicon Jules Marie	3–6, 3–6
Loss	16–17	Template:Dts	M25 Roehampton, Great Britain	World Tennis Tour	Grass	Template:Flagicon Luke Saville	4–6, 6–1, 1–6

Doubles: 10 (1–9)

Legend (doubles) ATP Challenger Tour (1–1) ITF Futures Tour (0–8)

Titles by surface Hard (1–9) Clay (0–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Template:NsDateTemplate:Ns	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Template:Dts	Spain F36, Martos	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Dan Evans	Template:Flagicon Kamil Čapkovič Template:Flagicon Dmitri Sitak	4–6, 5–2 ret.
Loss	0–2	Template:Dts	Great Britain F15, Chiswick	Futures	Hard (i)	Template:Flagicon Uladzimir Ignatik	Template:Flagicon Chris Eaton Template:Flagicon Dominic Inglot	0–6, 6–7(5–7)
Loss	0–3	Template:Dts	USA F24, Costa Mesa	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Adam Hubble	Template:Flagicon Chris Eaton Template:Flagicon Neal Skupski	3–6, 3–6
Loss	0–4	Template:Dts	Great Britain F17, Cardiff	Futures	Hard (i)	Template:Flagicon Daniel Smethurst	Template:Flagicon Oliver Golding Template:Flagicon Sean Thornley	4–6, 4–6
Loss	0–5	Template:Dts	Great Britain F18, Sheffield	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Richard Bloomfield	Template:Flagicon Lewis Burton Template:Flagicon Marcus Willis	1–6, 1–6
Loss	0–6	[[2014 China International Challenger – Men's doubles|Template:Dts]]	Anning, China	Challenger	Hard	Template:Flagicon Gong Maoxin	Template:Flagicon Alex Bolt Template:Flagicon Andrew Whittington	4–6, 3–6
Win	1–6	[[2014 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger – Doubles|Template:Dts]]	Binghamton, US	Challenger	Hard	Template:Flagicon Daniel Smethurst	Template:Flagicon Marius Copil Template:Flagicon Sergiy Stakhovsky	6–7(3–7), 6–2, [10–6]
Loss	1–7	Template:Dts	Great Britain F4, Wirral	Futures	Hard (i)	Template:Flagicon David Rice	Template:Flagicon Antal van der Duim Template:Flagicon Boy Westerhof	2–6, 6–4, [2–10]
Loss	1–8	Template:Dts	Great Britain F9, Nottingham	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon David Rice	Template:Flagicon Lloyd Glasspool Template:Flagicon Joshua Ward-Hibbert	4–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Loss	1–9	Template:Dts	Qatar F1, Doha	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Milos Sekulic	Template:Flagicon Antoine Bellier Template:Flagicon Benjamin Bonzi	2–6, 3–6

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