Ben McLachlan is a Japanese professional tennis player who previously represented New Zealand.
23 Facts About Ben McLachlan
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Ben McLachlan is a doubles specialist with a career-high ATP ranking of world No 18, achieved in November 2018.
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Ben McLachlan reached his first Grand Slam semifinal at the 2018 Australian Open alongside Jan-Lennard Struff, and has reached four further major quarterfinals in men's and mixed doubles.
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Ben McLachlan has represented Japan in the Davis Cup since 2017, and competed at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, reaching the quarterfinals in both men's and mixed doubles.
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Ben McLachlan took regular trips to Japan as a child, learning "reasonably fluent" Japanese, and switched to representing Japan in 2017.
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Bale and Thomas Shimada helped to facilitate the change of allegiance, in order for Ben McLachlan to take advantage of the funding and support on offer from the Japan Tennis Association.
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Ben McLachlan got engaged to Georgia Brown, a personal trainer whom he has known since primary school, in December 2020.
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Ben McLachlan won three ATP Challenger doubles titles, at the Internazionali dell'Umbria, Gwangju Open and Kobe Challenger.
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Ben McLachlan played his first Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open, partnering German Jan-Lennard Struff to reach the semifinals after defeating the top-seeded and world No 1 pair of Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo.
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Ben McLachlan then teamed with Hugo Nys to reach the finals in Montpellier, where they lost to English brothers Ken and Neal Skupski.
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Ben McLachlan then travelled to Houston for the US Clay Court Championships, where he partnered Ryan Harrison for the first time.
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Ben McLachlan went on to Istanbul for his next tournament, partnered again by Monroe, and they were the top seeds.
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Ben McLachlan's last stop before the French Open was in Lyon, where he paired up with Marcin Matkowski for the first time, losing in the first round in a match tie-break.
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Ben McLachlan played mixed doubles for the first time, his partner being Makoto Ninomiya, but they lost in the first round to second seeds Latisha Chan and Ivan Dodig.
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Ben McLachlan changed partners for the Open 13 in Marseille as Struff didn't attend, teaming up with Matwe Middelkoop to go all the way to the final, where they lost in a match tie-break to Jeremy Chardy and Fabrice Martin.
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Struff elected to play singles only in Miami, so Ben McLachlan joined forces with Neal Skupski.
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Ben McLachlan played mixed doubles at the French Open, teaming up again with his partner from Wimbledon, Eri Hozumi, but they lost in a first round match tie-break to Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez and Neal Skupski.
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Ben McLachlan broke the losing streak in resounding fashion by winning the Surbiton Trophy with Marcel Granollers to start the grass season in style.
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Ben McLachlan had a new partner for his next three tournaments in the USA, teaming up with Australian John-Patrick Smith.
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Japan was eliminated in the round-robin phase, Ben McLachlan's contributions being a win over Uruguay and a loss to Georgia with Toshihide Matsui, and a loss with Go Soeda to Pablo Carreno Busta and Rafael Nadal of Spain, the eventual group and tournament winners.
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Ben McLachlan had only one more match before the Covid-19 coronavirus halted tennis.
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Ben McLachlan teamed up with Raven Klaasen in Cologne, becoming champions in their first tournament together when they defeated French Open title-holders Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies in straight sets in the final.
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Ben McLachlan rejoined Skugor in Nur-Sultan, losing in the semifinals, before he and Klaasen were upset in the first round of the Paris Masters by Taylor Fritz and Casper Ruud.