Jay Clarke

Clarke has an older brother Curtis by four years and older sister Yasmin by nine years, who are both professional tennis players, and all were coached by their father Errol.

Clarke is from Pear Tree, Derby and trained at the CURC tennis club.

2012

Playing in the Great Britain Under 14 boys team, with Samuel Ferguson, they won the European Winter Cup defeating Sweden in the final.

Clarke won two Tennis Europe 14U Grade 1 events to become the 14U No.1 in Europe. Consequently, Clarke gained the May AEGON Junior Player of the Month Award.

2015

Clarke was the no 1 ranked British junior, living and training in Stockholm, but did not receive funding from the Lawn Tennis Association.

2016–2017

Clarke has risen from an ATP singles ranking of no 1,621 in the world in June 2016 to a career high of 360 achieved on 26 June 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 871 achieved on 26 June 2017. He trained with Andy Murray before the French Open and travelled with the Great Britain Davis Cup team for their recent tie against France.

Clarke received a singles wild card for the 2017 Wimbledon qualifers but lost in the final round. Clarke was awarded a wildcard to the doubles main draw with Marcus Willis, where they reached the third round after upsetting the defending champions and second seeds Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert in a five-setter.

Singles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	000000002016-12-01-0000Dec 2016	Egypt F35, Cairo	Futures	Clay	Laslo Urrutia Fuentes	6–7(6–8), 6–3, 6–1
Win	2–0	000000002016-12-01-0000Dec 2016	Egypt F36, Cairo	Futures	Clay	Youssef Hossam	6–4, 6–4
Win	3–0	000000002017-03-01-0000Mar 2017	Turkey F9, Antalya	Futures	Clay	Alexis Musialek	6–2, 6–4
Loss	3–1	000000002017-09-01-0000Sep 2017	Italy F29, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Federico Gaio	2–6, 5–7

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	000000002016-12-01-0000Dec 2016	Egypt F35, Cairo	Futures	Clay	Curtis Clarke	Chandril Sood Lakshit Sood	3–6, 2–6